Re: RAT "at least Texas ran on time"

[brad rothbart <scrdchao@nni.com>]

>Read Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean.
>>Or
>>Belly of the Beast by Jack Abbott.
>>
>

>  After I got the role, the Director took me out for coffee and informed
>me that I was replacing the young unknown actor named Richard Adan who,
>three nights previously, had been at his waiter job in downtown Manhattan
>and while trying to quiet an unruly customer was stabbed to death by the
>guy. That customer was Jack Henry Abbott - a man who as a kid had been
>shuttled back and forth between several foster homes and eventually ended
>up in jail for stabbing a man. Then he wrote a book. Then he got out
>(thank you, Norman Mailer) and stabbed a kid. Then he went back to jail.
>  The show went well, by the way.
>  Jonathan
>
>Even more reason to read the book.


--brad