Five members of Congress asked President Reagan on Wednesday to pardon Conan Owen, the Annandale, Va., photographer freed from a Spanish prison after serving time for what U.S. officials say was a wrongful drug trafficking conviction.
More than 250 placard-waving demonstrators marched in front of the Spanish Embassy on Wednesday to protest the drug conviction and sentence of American photographer Conan Owen in Barcelona last week.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's eerily rational sleuth has been given vivid life by the Granada TV series presented on "Mystery!"
Two were DeLaurentiis productions, "Conan the Barbarian" and "Fighting Back."
"It certainly opens doors," says Conan O'Brien, who wrote for the Lampoon from 1983 to 1985 and until recently wrote for Home Box Office's cable-television comedy "Not Necessarily the News."
"The DEA was interested in the details Conan Owen had to tell for the conspiracy case we were working on," he said.
Conan Owen, 24, of Annandale, Va., was sentenced to six years in prison in April after being convicted of bringing four pounds of cocaine into Spain from Chile in a false-bottomed suitcase.
And it wasn't Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Think of characters he's created for others to direct: the vile, demented Tony Montana ("Scarface"); the fanatical cop Stanley White ("Year of the Dragon"); the original "Conan the Barbarian."
Also an admirer of pulp lit, he once went to a producer early in the '70s with the notion of turning Conan the Barbarian into a movie.
Pictures and mementos from such movies as "Conan the Barbarian," "Red Heat," "The Terminator," "Commando," "Predator" and "Twins" are everywhere.
"Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," Arthur Conan Doyle.