dallas bower
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dallas bower was born on july 25, 1907 in london, england. he was a producer and director, known for
dallas bower was born on july 25, 1907 in london, england. he was a producer and director, known ...
dallas bower (25 july 1907, london – 18 october 1999, london) was a british film and television director and producer .
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in 1936, dallas bower published his plan for cinema, which graham greene and others reviewed warmly. he was elected to the savile club in 1943, for which he remained
forever grateful
.
dallas gordon bower, film producer, sound recordist, editor and writer: born london 25 july 1907; married violet collings (one son, one daughter, and one daughter deceased; marriage dissolved); died northwood, middlesex 18 october 1999 .
a dapper, sociable and entertaining man, dallas bower was, in more recent years, celebrated as the most faithful, virtually resident, member of the savile club. his marriage to violet collings in 1927 was dissolved in 1945, and he is survived by his daughter tessa (an elder daughter died) and a son, the publisher delian bower .
dallas bower, who has died aged 92, was a pioneer television producer in the medium' s earliest days, and later an influential figure in the film world. laurence olivier' s 1944 classic movie, henry v, owed its inception to him .
a lifelong member of the savile club, bower married violet collings with whom he had one son and two daughters .
born in london, bower was named after a village in scotland, the same dallas that gave its name to the city in texas. his family were descended from sarah siddons (i remember him gleefully pointing out the hidden alley in marylebone, siddons lane, named after the great tragedienne) .
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that year, bower also recorded the first all - talking british film, under the greenwood tree .
in those days ,
said bower ,
recording on the stage could be an absolute nightmare. there were no booms and to get the correct balance for the dialogue was incredibly difficult .
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bower was appointed to the bbc television service in 1936 and made the bbc television demonstration film - a symposium of the first six month' s programmes for morning transmission .
olivier was immediately attracted to the idea, though the ministry, according to bower, was reluctant to back them financially. it was left to the emigré italian producer filippo del giudice, who had been interned as an alien in 1940, to fund the venture. olivier eventually wrote his own screenplay, with the critic alan dent, but dallas bower remained as associate producer. it was his idea to film the agincourt battle scenes in ireland, thus avoiding the difficulties of location work in england - where fields had been ploughed up for crops or ringed with obstacles to deter airborne landings, and where horses and horsemen were hard to find .
authorities were called to the 1500 block of north union bower road, near east grauwyler road, around 10: 30 a. m. after a hit - and - run was reported .
but bower was increasingly drawn back to his first love, the cinema. in 1950 he directed an innovative anglo - french version of alice in wonderland, which sadly was overwhelmed by the disney cartoon version and never received proper release or its due recognition. worse, dallas' s film had been shot in anscocolor, an american adaptation of agfacolor which steadily faded. he was delighted when, in his 90th year, the museum of modern art in new york painstakingly restored a print frame by frame .
a dallas native, howard earned a b. s. degree in economics in 1966 from the university of pennsylvania, wharton school of business and later his juris doctorate degree in 1970 from the university of texas at austin. as a hedge fund manager for thirty years, he started the regal group of companies in the 1970s and acted as the managing partner of regal securities investment, l. p. and president and chairman of the board of regal capital company. howard also serves as an active member for several boards, such as dia center for the arts in new york, the at & t performing arts center, the dallas symphony association, and lumin education. he is also a member of the collections and finance committees and on the board of trustees at the dallas museum of art and acts as advisory director to the university of texas, school of architecture .
dallas bower had several careers, and was a pioneer in virtually all of them. he began in radio, when broadcasting was a novelty. he moved to the cinema, recording sound when that too was brand new, and went to television in time to become the first producer - director of drama and opera for the bbc. as if that wasn' t enough for one lifetime, he also directed feature films and documentaries, was the associate producer of olivier' s henry v, and directed plays for radio .
returning to british films after the war, bower made a colour film of alice in wonderland in 1949 (restored 50 years later by the us museum of modern art .) he later produced the first british tv commercials .
bower entered the film industry as a sound recordist, becoming a film editor and assistant director. his first job was in the early 20s, as a bench - boy at the marconi scientific instrument company, which had a radio transmitter in soho. in 1927, he went to bth (british thomson houston), where he encountered an american radio engineer, harold sundy, who was installing sound equipment at elstree film studios. sundy asked if bower would care to work as a sound recordist in films .
no one knows how to do this. would you like to chance your arm ?
bower knew at once that this was what he wanted to do .
after a tempest, with the young peggy ashcroft as miranda, bower' s next shakespeare was to have been henry v. he had just completed the script when hitler invaded poland and television was summarily closed down. bower joined up as an officer in the royal corps of signals, but was soon seconded to the ministry of information to help set up a film division under sir kenneth clark. he shared an office with john betjeman and graham greene .
bower was already intrigued by the prospect of television, and in 1936 published plan for cinema, in which he forecast that it would take over many of the functions of the movies. graham greene reviewed the book in the spectator, partly in alarm but also seizing on the hope that such a change might get rid of the star system. when the bbc television service went on the air later that year, bower was one of its two senior producers .
after the war, bower mounted a number of freelance television productions, made some 80 commercials and was involved in the hybrid new craft of television film - making. among other works, he produced sir lancelot, starring william russell .
one of his first jobs was to record a wild track of an actress repeating the word
knife
in alfred hitchcock' s blackmail (1929). the effect helped to establish the film as the most imaginative of early british talkies. bower also recorded the first all - talking british film, under the greenwood tree (1930), escape me never (1935) with elisabeth bergner, and with olivier for the first time on as you like it, starring bergner again. the film was shakespeare as rewritten by jm barrie; dallas told me that olivier hated it .
now most famous as initiator and associate producer of the wartime success, henry v (d. laurence olivier, 1944), dallas bower (born in london on 25 july 1907) had a long career as sound recordist, from 1927, and as pioneer tv producer - director with the bbc tv service 1936 - 39. in the latter capacity, he produced operas, ballets, revues, and plays, including some major shakespearean productions. on screen, he had acted as associate producer to paul czinner on escape me never (1935) and as you like it (1936) .
he was commissioned in the royal corps of signals in 1939, was executive producer of the ministry of information' s films division (1940 - 42), and ensured the interest first of filippo del giudice and then of the rank organisation in backing henry v. bower had hoped to direct but olivier chose to do so as well as to star, and in the intervening years bower' s contribution (for instance, it was he who brought composer william walton into the venture) has been undervalued .
in 1927, he went to a better job at bth (british thomson houston) in the aldwych; here he encountered an american radio engineer, harold sundy, who was installing the sound equipment at the bip (british international pictures) studios at elstree, in hertfordshire. sundy asked if bower would care to work as a sound recordist in films .
no one knows how to do this. would you like to chance your arm ?
bower knew at once that this was what he wanted to do .
he had already written henry v for bbc television but, when the war came, british television closed down. when sir kenneth clark, his chief at the ministry of information, received pounds 500, 000 from the government to make feature films, bower rewrote henry v as a film script. when a select committee recommended that the moi stay clear of feature production, bower took his script from one wardour street producer to another. none of them was able to produce it (few of them wanted to) .
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cary gordon hubbard, 47, of lerona died wednesday, april 5, 2017 at his residence. born september 29, 1969 in princeton he was the son of the late gordon hubbard and drema meador hubbard ritchey and her husband douglas of princeton. he was a graduate of athens high school and a member of the cook’s chapel baptist church in pipestem. cary was a heavy equipment operator with the west virginia department of highways and had his cdl license. he was an avid ham radio operator (kb8vok) and was an extremely patriotic person who loved his country and the veterans who served in our military. cary enjoyed posting videos on you tube on his cary hubbard and family channel. he also enjoyed tractoring with his kubota, watching football and rooting against the dallas cowboys. in addition to his mother and step - father additional survivors include his wife, deborah denise shorter hubbard of lerona; two sons, cary matthew “matt” hubbard and joshua james hubbard both of lerona and special family friends, lee and lori bower and their children, austin lee bower and michaela bower. funeral services will be conducted at 3: 00 pm, saturday, april 8, 2017 at the cook’s chapel baptist church in pipestem with pastor dallas peyton, jr. officiating. burial will follow at the shorter family cemetery in lerona. family and friends will serve as pallbearers. friends may call at cooks chapel baptist church in pipestem from 6: 00 pm until 8: 00 pm, friday, april 7, 2017 (today). in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the pipestem christian academy, p. o. box 49, pipestem, wv 25979 .
british pioneer television producer who began his career in the early 1920' s as a sound recordist and editor. he became director of bbc - tv (1936 - 39) and supervisor of film production at the ministry of information (1940 - 42). bower was active after ...
born in london in 1907, bower - a great - great - great - grandson of sarah siddons - was named after a village in moray, scotland (the same dallas that gave its name, via a wealthy emigrant, to the city in texas). he was educated at willington school in putney, which counted among its pupils such as b. h. liddell - hart and maurice bowra - and lynton house in notting hill gate. at willington he was taught latin by a youthful antonia white. he went on to st john' s college, hurstpierpoint, in sussex, where an english master called claude gurney - who became a successful west end stage director - had considerable influence on him .
fortunately, he met the italian producer filippo del giudice. olivier had played henry v on the radio: del giudice wanted him to play the lead in the film. olivier declared he would also want to direct. bower became the associate producer and was also responsible for setting up the agincourt sequence in ireland .
before henry v (1944), bower had been in the bbc sound broadcasting features and drama department. his most notable productions were alexander nevsky (macneice / prokofiev), and radio adaptations of eisenstein' s film starring robert donat and peggy ashcroft, and christopher columbus (macneice / walton) starring laurence olivier .
in the thirties he became personal assistant to paul czinner, then making films starring czinner' s wife elisabeth bergner, such as escape me never (1935) and as you like it (1936). when bergner fell ill, czinner left the finishing of as you like it to bower. laurence olivier played orlando .
until september 2016 when he founded hamilton realty finance, randy was managing director of jones lang lasalle (“jll”) dallas debt & equity platform. prior to joining jll randy was the founder of quadrant realty finance (“qrf”), a boutique real estate investment banking firm located in dallas, texas, which jll acquired in june, 2013. since its formation in 2010, qrf placed over $ 1. 5b in debt and equity financings. prior to joining qrf, he was a managing director at cbre. prior to his employment with cbre, randy was an attorney with the law firm of monk goodwin in winnipeg canada, practicing real estate and commercial law. randy holds a bachelor of law from the university of manitoba, a master of science in real estate & finance from the university of north texas and a bachelor of business administration in finance, investment and banking from the university of wisconsin .
british pioneer television producer who began his career in the early 1920' s as a sound recordist and editor. he became director of bbc - tv (1936 - 39) and supervisor of film production at the ministry of information (1940 - 42). bower was active after the war as a freelance producer and occasional director of made - for - tv dramas .
after resigning from the bbc to make henry v, bower wrote two film scenarios with val gielgud for the rank organisation; duff cooper' s talleyrand and winston churchill' s marlborough. neither was put into production, due to their potentially high production costs. the same fate overtook his film scenario with louis macneice, pax futura, about the future of world peace .
in 2003, michael formed quadrant capital partners, inc. to make direct investments in real estate and private equity in the united states and canada. previously, michael had spent 10 years at canadian imperial bank of commerce as global head of real estate, where he was responsible for real estate investment banking, merchant banking and commercial lending. born in windsor ontario, michael moved from toronto to dallas in 1976 and has enjoyed a long career successfully completing large scale, public and private commercial real estate transactions .
before founding qip, chad was vice president, acquisitions for hillwood investment properties, where, from 2004 to 2012, he focused on development and acquisition opportunities in numerous markets nationally. in addition to helping lead the company’s acquisition team chad coordinated over $ 1 billion in dispositions. he also played an integral role in the sourcing and structuring of numerous institutional joint ventures and development partnerships. prior to joining hillwood, chad was a director of leasing and dispositions with emerson partners, a dallas based owner and operator of office and industrial properties .
back at the ministry in the spring of 1944, the film department, now led by jack beddington, was searching for a subject which would brace britain for the fearful risks and possible setbacks of a seaborne invasion of fortress europe. bower had seen olivier deliver the
once more into the breach
speech from henry v, dug out his old television script and proposed a film of it .
an uncle used to take bower to the cinema, and during the first world war he saw d. w. griffith' s epics the birth of a nation and intolerance. both impressed him profoundly. his first job was in the early twenties when, as a bench boy, he joined the marconi scientific instrument company, which had a radio transmitter at its soho office even before the establishment of 2lo .
in 1941 - 42, he returned temporarily to the bbc to produce propaganda radio epics. after the soviet union entered the war, the foreign office asked for something to salute britain' s new allies. bower put on a stirring version of alexander nevsky, starring olivier. when the japanese attacked pearl harbour, the same team was re - convened for an american tribute, columbus, with music by william walton .
charles nathan culver was born in rosser, texas on october 29, 1919 to nathaniel and ollie waddle culver. charles passed away in an ennis, texas hospital on august 19, 2011. charles was raised in rosser and attended rosser schools. he entered the u. s. army on november 18, 1941 and was discharged on december 15, 1944. charles worked for neuhoff in dallas for ten years as a mechanic and he was also a farmer. he was a member of the mount olive baptist church in scurry. charles was an avid reader and loved his garden and fruit trees. charles married wathina ford on november 23, 1948 in mineral wells, texas. charles was preceded in death by a brother benny culver and sisters leona lockaby and queena leveritt. he is survived by his wife: wathina culver of scurry, son: charles earl culver of scurry, daughters: peggy michelle dorough of scurry and deanie hauk of ennis, brother: thomas
buddy
culver of kaufman, sisters: joyce jones of allen, dorothy janitz of indianapolis, indiana and glenda taylor of richardson, grandchildren: lisa wright, missy bower, michael fortner, damon hipp, brandy hipp and stephenie hauk and many other relatives and friends .
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in the early fifties, in nice and paris, bower directed a musical version of alice in wonderland (1951). it played successfully in france and the us, but not in britain, due to censorship difficulties (the censor objected to pamela brown' s portrayal of queen victoria). the film has since played on itv and bbc television. pioneering yet again, he produced the first 80 commercials for independent television, 12 of which he directed himself. he then made documentaries for the armed services and made two documentaries in nigeria .
superjoint, formally superjoint ritual, is an american metal band formed by phil anselmo, joe fazzio, and jimmy bower in the early 1990s, later to be joined by hank williams iii, and kevin bond. their style can be considered a mix of pantera' s style of groove metal and hardcore punk. a small trace of black metal can be heard, as well. bands like venom, slayer, celtic frost, voivod, and darkthrone have been noted as influences also. the name superjoint ritual comes from a lyric in the darkthrone song
the pagan winter
. according to bower, anselmo wrote 70 - 80% of the group' s music. despite their early' 90s establishment, it wasn' t until a decade later, after the folding of pantera, that the group recorded any albums. it was then that superjoint ritual garnered significant tv exposure on programs such as mtv2' s headbangers ball and fuse tv' s uranium. however, the group' s time in the spotlight would prove short lived. a dispute between anselmo and fazzio led to the band' s eventual split in late 2004, which was confirmed by both hank williams iii and jimmy bower. it was confirmed that they will have a reunion at the housecore horror film festival in austin, texas october 23rd - 26th 2014. for legal reasons, the band will perform under name superjoint. hank williams iii was initially supposed to take part in this first reunion show, but had to bow out due to personal issues. although their appearance at housecore horror was supposed to be the only reunion show, it is now confirmed that they will be performing as superjoint at hellfest open air 2015 .
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he was educated at willington school in putney, and lynton house in notting hill gate, and went on to st john' s college, hurstpierpoint, where an english master called claude gurney, who became a successful west end stage director, had considerable influence on him. taken to the cinema by an uncle, he was also profoundly impressed by dw griffith' s epics, the birth of a nation and intolerance .
he went on to fill the tiny (nine or 10 - inch) screens of pre - war receivers with programmes that would have been ambitious at any time: a revue called pasquinade, act ii of tristan and isolde, with miming actors and off - screen singers, the garrick version of the taming of the shrew and, in 1938, julius caesar in modern dress, with the conspirators wearing fascist uniforms .
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in 1934, he directed his first film, path of glory and, postwar, he directed versions of alice in wonderland (uk / fr / us, 1949, combining puppets and live action) and the second mrs tanqueray (1952), two minor us films, and wrote the screenplay for an eight - part children' s serial, mystery in the mine. in 1936, he wrote the book, plan for cinema .
he began his film career as a sound recordist and worked with alfred hitchcock on the director' s first sound film, blackmail .
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kimberly joined qip in 2015 to serve as the director of asset management, overseeing the daily operations of qip’s office and industrial portfolio. prior to joining qip, kimberly spent 14 years with ge capital real estate with her most recent role as an asset manager overseeing a $ 500 million portfolio of debt and equity asset located across the united states. kimberly’s focus with ge was primarily on troubled debt management, restructuring, and reo repositioning and disposition. while with ge, kimberly worked closely with third party professionals to execute upon value enhancement strategies, capital projects, leasing, and disposition objectives. kimberly is a graduate of baylor university with a bba in real estate from the hankamer school of business .
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brendan joined qip in 2017 as director of acquisitions, overseeing office and industrial underwriting, as well as capital structuring for acquisitions. from 2015 to may 2017, brendan was a part of jll' s southwest capital markets team focusing on office investment sales. during his tenure at jll, brendan was a key team member overseeing underwriting, due diligence and capital sourcing on over $ 250 million in dispositions. brendan is a graduate of the ohio state university with a bba in investments and securities from the max m. fisher college of business and a minor in entrepreneurship .
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a guy who complains about god too often is given almighty powers to teach him how difficult it is to run the world .
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a lonely and disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend, but his target, a designer, rejects him, with bad consequences .
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bruce nolan, a television reporter in buffalo, n. y. , is discontented with almost everything in life despite his popularity and the love of his girlfriend grace. at the end of the worst day of his life, bruce angrily ridicules and rages against god and god responds. god appears in human form and, endowing bruce with divine powers, challenges bruce to take on the big job to see if he can do it any better .
in the scene where bruce pulls up to god' s office, the outside of the building reads
omni presents ,
referring to the islamic, jewish, and christian beliefs of the state of god' s omnipresence .
after the meeting, in the hallway outside of jack' s office, when bruce is saying to jack
i' m starting to get desperate man
, his hands
jump
from open to close position between the cut scene .
as someone who lives near buffalo, new york, this movie scored points with me before i even saw it, since the story is based here. there are even some bit parts with real - life news - tv anchor people from buffalo. . and, for once, it doesn' t knock the area. hallelujah! theology - wise, puh - leeze! !! god is still made to look and think like humans... and, of course, be a bit on the liberal side. being the lightweight comedy it is, it' s nothing that should win any awards but it still is entertaining and is a pleasant way to kill 102 minutes. there are some laugh - out - loud slapstick comedy scenes and, hopefully, audiences - from christians to atheists. - got something out of this besides a few laughs, such as what prayer should really be all about. kudos to the writers for at least getting that theology correct and giving a good message. overall, it' s a good - hearted film that should offend very few .
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he' d grown paranoid, possibly schizophrenic ...
penalty cases prior to trial – a measure (sb 1292) that easily passed through the lege this spring – the state is nonetheless still fighting efforts by condemned inmate larry swear­ingen to obtain dna testing on key pieces of evidence that his lawyers say could prove he is not responsible for the 1998 murder of montgomery county com­mun­ity college student melissa trotter... .
... by the age of 11, parr was on the streets, living among drug dealers, and he began to earn money dealing. it was parr' s continued involvement in drugs that would eventually send him to
, was not responsible for the 1998 kidnapping and murder of 19 - year - old melissa trotter, will be taken up in district court in montgomery county starting feb. 27... .
... attorneys dick wheelan and james crowley, assigned at different times to aid tercero' s appeals process, did little to help his case, either. they glossed over interview opportunities with jurors, trial counsel, or any of the involved witnesses ...
... he fought police, but they were finally able to get him into custody. behind a generator shed on the property, police later found glen; his head had been bashed in with a crowbar discarded next to his body... .
inmate steven staley to be forcibly medicated in order to make him competent for execution, as a fort worth court had ordered. notably, however, the cca did not rule on whether the texas constitution would absolutely forbid the execution of someone forcibly medicated ...
ran through the alphabet of ichor, establishing the format: each director gets a letter of the alphabet and has to create the most gruesome, insightful or ingenious way to dispatch, dismember and generally remove from the gene pool. that first murderers'
of filmmakers included a most wanted list of fantastic fest and sxsw veterans including ti west (house of the devil), adam barrett and simon wingard (you' re next), angela bettis (roman) and srdjan spasojevic (a serbian film)... .
but has not executed an inmate since 1963, reports the new york times ...
inmate bobby moore, who scotus concluded was sentenced in part on outdated medical research on intellectual functioning ...
sentence in 1998 for the murder and rape of 19 - year - old stacey stites in nearby bastrop. reed, his supporters, and attorneys have maintained his innocence ever since ...
how smart must one be to stand for execution? in texas, not that smart .
inmate john bat­taglia, who believe their client is mentally incompetent for execution ...
indefinitely. a harris county judge ordered the delay after the texas department of criminal justice failed to procure test results to determine the purity of the dose of compounded pentobarbital (the state' s execution drug of choice) reserved for williams' execution ...
... secretary of state condoleezza rice and to attorney gen­eral michael mukasey, thanking the pair for their written request of the month before. rice and mukasey had asked that texas comply with an international court of justice order, to ensure that mexican nationals on
in texas were afforded the legal protections assured to them by a now roughly five - decade - old international treaty... .
... anthony haynes claimed he didn' t know that kent kincaid was a houston police sergeant when he shot him in the head back in 1998. kincaid was off - duty and driving his personal vehicle when haynes drove by; something cracked kincaid' s windshield, and he reportedly thought haynes had thrown something at him ...
. in 2013, he filed a joint lawsuit with michael yowell and perry williams that questioned the purity of the texas department of criminal justice' s then - current stock of pentobarbital (the state' s execution drug of choice) ...
... the appeal also challenges the work of rayford' s trial attorneys, who failed to raise the issue of their client' s mental health (brain damage brought on from lead poisoning), and did not pursue other alleged evidence. anton also cites ray­ford' s 16 years on
inmate rosendo rodriguez iii' s most recent appeal, and time is running out. rodriguez was convicted of raping, beating, and killing summer baldwin at a lubbock hotel in 2005, then trashing her body in a suitcase at the city dump ...
inmate clinton young received a stay of execution on wednesday, eight days before his scheduled date of oct. 26 ...
inmate kimberly mccarthy, slated to be executed tonight – the 500th inmate executed in texas since reinstatement. and with the cca' s ruling, a claim that her conviction was tainted by racial bias will likely go unaddressed... .
... the 3rd court of appeals agreed that the state' s department of criminal justice must name their execution drug supplier, according to an order issued last thu. , may 25. the appeals court' s ruling comes three years after a suit was filed by several attorneys representing clients on
growls and leather gauntlets. he' ll be singing evil country songs alongside austin rockabilly guitar slinger and lemmy collaborator danny b ...
... 27, the notoriously hard - line 5th u. s. circuit court of appeals rebuked the texas court of criminal appeals, overturning the conviction and
... the process doesn' t sound all that removed from your average mumblecore film: a shoestring budget, a cast of nonactors, minimally scripted, on location, with a learn - by - doing ethos. only this was 1957 and – in theory, at least – a documentary, lionel rogosin' s award - winning on the bowery, about the lives of hobos and drunks on skid
... if you live in texas this october, you no longer have to wait until the very end of the month to get spooked. all you have to do is spend a bit of time with texas
ever since she exposed hollywood' s dirty little secret about the fast track to stardom when she spread her legs in basic instinct and became an overnight success after years of ...
... directed by: bruce beresford. starring: sharon stone, rob morrow, randy quaid, peter gallagher, jack thompson, jayne brook, pamala tyson and skeet ulrich ...
... prior to perez' s testimony, assistant d. a. claire dawson - brown, trying her first – and last – capital case, had presented eight days of evidence tying perez to the crime scene ...
, their sentences commuted to life in prison. still, on june 22, gov ...
one thing director alan parker has never been accused of is understatement. from such early films as bugsy malone and midnight express to midcareer projects like pink floyd: the wall ...
... their performances are always interesting to watch, even if their actions are not. the plot (by first - time screenwriter charles randolph) is unnecessarily convoluted and contrived, beginning with the film’s one essential hook: david gale, a professor at the
university of austin
and a prominent advocate for the abolition of the
oh, the time and money we all could have saved had frank darabont hooked up with stephen king long ago. the director who also helmed the film adaptation of king' s ...
... it' s a trade - off that has served both men well, and continues with the green mile (first published as a series of six serial novelettes four years ago). it' s 1935, and as the head correctional officer of e - block - -
- - at louisiana' s cold mountain penitentiary, paul edgecomb (a beefed - up hanks) wants only to keep his doomed charges calm and contained as they await their sad walk down “the green mile” (so - named due to the scuffed green linoleum that covers the floor) to their rendezvous with “old sparky. ” a more decent, god - fearing jailer you' re not likely to find, and edgecomb' s subordinates - - the bull - strong - but - compassionate brutus “brutal” howell (morse), old pro harry terwilliger (jeffrey demunn), wet - behind - the - ears rookie dean stanton (pepper), and the malicious, scheming nephew of the governor, percy wetmore (hutchison) - - are taking things the only way they can, day by day ...
appeal of thomas miller - el, who was convicted of the murder of hotel clerk douglas walker during a 1985 robbery in irving, by a jury from which prosecutors struck all but one black potential juror ...
monster' s ball is the kind of quiet, effective film that burrows under the viewer' s skin and takes root before you' ve had a chance to realize that it' s permeated your constitutional ...
... starring: coronji calhoun, mos def, sean combs, peter boyle, heath ledger, halle berry and billy bob thornton. monster' s ball is the kind of quiet, effective film that burrows under the viewer' s skin and takes root before you' ve had a chance to realize that it' s permeated your constitutional makeup ...
sarandon won an oscar for her performance as sister helen prejean in this nuanced story about capital punishment .
... dead man walking is based on the book of the same name written by sister helen prejean, who is played by sarandon in the film. as sister helen, sarandon is a nun who acts as spiritual advisor to convicted
for the 1983 murder of four men in a grayson county airplane hangar. he’s faced eight different execution dates, the most recent being tomorrow, june 3 ...
this film adaptation doesn' t so much recall the glory days of movie musicals as give it a new, era - specific reason to wake up and shake its tail feather .
... here, there are two women scorned – velma kelly (zeta - jones), by a cheating husband, and roxie hart (zellweger), by a crooked lover. the penalty for both wayward men is a bullet to the heart; the penalty for both women is jail stay and maybe
... damien echols' life as part of the wrongfully imprisoned west memphis three has been well - documented in books, films, songs, and more. and after his release last august after 18 years on
: a frustrating, honest, and surprisingly joyful account of a life lived under trying circumstances... .
are
wired ,
and has spent a significant amount of time in the prison system' s psychiatric ward, a judge in brazos county today denied to hold a competency hearing to determine if marcus druery is indeed sane enough to die... .
... spent his time on the april 1996 night that his fiancée stacey stites was murdered. reed, who says he was having an affair with stites at the time of her brutal slaying, was convicted of capital murder in 1998, and has spent the time since on
... they focus instead on the rev. carroll pickett, the man who unexpectedly became the minister to 95 texas
gov. rick perry fights disclosure of clemency memos - - a battle already waged, and lost, by then - gov. bush .
... but let’s try to parse it out, if possible. fassbender plays cal lynch, a
convict spirited away during his execution by abstergo, a corporation embodied by sofia (cotillard, sporting some killer locks, but unfortunately burdened with most of the film’s exposition) and her father rikkin (irons, on autopilot, but his hair looks good, too) ...
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dallas bower ( 25 july 1907 , london – 18 october 1999 , london ) was a british film and television director and producer . after early employment as the sound technician on alfred hitchcock 's first sound movie blackmail ( 1929 ) bower joined film impresario paul czinner , producer of as you like it , starring laurence olivier . bower joined the bbc 's experimental television unit in 1936 and presented broadcasts of several shakespeare plays before tv trials were terminated in wartime . he then directed the ministry of information 's film division and in 1941 joined bbc radio where he produced a radio version of the russian film alexander nevsky , starring laurence olivier and with music by william walton . the same group later made the film henry v , with bower as executive producer and the radio script he and olivier had broadcast before the war . returning to british films after the war , bower made a colour film of alice in wonderland in 1949 ( restored 50 years later by the us museum of modern art . ) he later produced the first british tv commercials . a lifelong member of the savile club , bower married violet collings with whom he had one son and two daughters . 
dallas bower (25 july 1907, london – 18 october 1999, london) was a british film and television director and producer. after early employment as the sound technician on alfred hitchcock's first sound movie blackmail (1929) bower joined film impresario paul czinner, producer of as you like it, starring laurence olivier. bower joined the bbc's experimental television unit in 1936 and presented broadcasts of several shakespeare plays before tv trials were terminated in wartime. he then directed the ministry of information's film division and in 1941 joined bbc radio where he produced a radio version of the russian film alexander nevsky, starring laurence olivier and with music by william walton. the same group later made the film henry v, with bower as executive producer and the radio script he and olivier had broadcast before the war. returning to british films after the war, bower made a colour film of alice in wonderland in 1949 (restored 50 years later by the us museum of modern art .) he later produced the first british tv commercials. a lifelong member of the savile club, bower married violet collings with whom he had one son and two daughters.
dallas bower (25 july 1907, london – 18 october 1999, london) was a british film and television director and producer. after early employment as the sound technician on alfred hitchcock's first sound movie blackmail (1929) bower joined film impresario paul czinner, producer of as you like it, starring laurence olivier. bower joined the bbc's experimental television unit in 1936 and presented broadcasts of several shakespeare plays before tv trials were terminated in wartime. he then directed the ministry of information's film division and in 1941 joined bbc radio where he produced a radio version of the russian film alexander nevsky, starring laurence olivier and with music by william walton. the same group later made the film henry v, with bower as executive producer and the radio script he and olivier had broadcast before the war. returning to british films after the war, bower made a colour film of alice in wonderland in 1949 (restored 50 years later by the us museum of modern art .) he later produced the first british tv commercials. a lifelong member of the savile club, bower married violet collings with whom he had one son and two daughters.