How Clarence Maclin Went from Sing Sing to “Sing Sing”

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How Clarence Maclin Went from Sing Sing to “Sing Sing”
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The first-time Hollywood actor, who co-stars with Colman Domingo, visits his old stomping grounds in Mount Vernon, Adam Iscoe writes.

“I’m alive,” the window-washer, Warren Coley, replied. “That’s the good part, you got that first blessing,” Maclin said. The two embraced. “You gotta squint to remember who I am?” Coley grinned and said, “That’s you, goddammit!” Maclin, who is fifty-eight years old and had a diamond stud in each ear, smiled. “I came a long way, right?” “You came a loooong way.” “I used to have dreads all down my back,” Maclin said, smiling.

’s theatre program; the man behind Colman Domingo’s character, John Whitfield, who was wrongfully incarcerated for almost twenty-five years, makes a brief appearance. The Maclin character’s reluctance to change his ways is based on truth. “I really did carry a knife every day, ’til the day I left,” he said. “That’s when I gave away my knife, in the steak shop, on the way out the door. But that was my own insecurity.

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