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...attend. Incarceration will do that to you. But the celebs who saw the film, shot entirely in America's largest prison (situated on a former slave plantation in Louisiana), gushed with praise. "Where can I get a subscription to the Angolite?" asked Anne Heche about the prison's magazine. Warden BURL CAIN, left, gave the film crew unprecedented access to all areas of his Big House, and the film's director, Jonathan Stack, found so much material there that he's now working on a film focusing on one of the inmates. He's also got a whole new crew...
...characters occupy the play's more complex moral center: the warden's new secretary (Sherri Parker Lee), who can't reveal the brutality she sees for fear of losing a job she desperately needs, and a convict called Canary Jim (Finbar Lynch), who has ingratiated himself with the warden by ratting on other inmates. Jim is the most recognizable Williams character, a stunted romantic who scoffs at Keats (when he starts writing, Jim vows, it won't be about nightingales) yet proves himself an idealist in a pinch...
...shows the unlikely influence of such left-wing dramatists of the era as Clifford Odets. But he must have sat through quite a few Warner Bros. prison films of the '30s as well. Not About Nightingales is paced like a movie, with short scenes that skip willy-nilly from warden's office to cell block, from mess hall to prison yard. The warden (played with fine, greasy intensity by Corin Redgrave, Vanessa's brother) is a sadistic dictator with no redeeming features. The convicts include a bullet-headed tough guy who organizes a hunger strike (James Black); a sympathetically rendered...
...dignity on his leadership, which became evident from the moment he was returned to Robben Island. Even on his first arrival, two years before, he had set an example by refusing to obey an order to jog from the harbor, where the ferry docked, to the prison gates. The warden in charge warned him bluntly that unless he started obeying, he might quite simply be killed and that no one on the mainland would ever be the wiser. Whereupon Mandela quietly retorted, "If you so much as lay a hand on me, I will take you to the highest court...
According to election workers, low turnout partly stems from a lack of candidate outreach to students. "It's a city election, so generally nobody cares," Gund Hall station warden Bill Willard said. "It's not necessarily apathy. But it's just that nobody gets the word...