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...this is just as exciting as it sounds, but director Jon Amiel's main intent is to frame Darwin's authorship of one of the most important books of all time around the death of a child, Darwin's 10-year-old daughter Annie (Martha West). Between her loss and his grief, Creation is a doubleheader of misery and melancholy that serve mostly to make you look forward to the writing bits. After a bout of scarlet fever, Annie languished for weeks. She was apparently the light of Darwin's life, and the movie does not miss an opportunity...
...Several of the Canadian journalists filing stories from the Chicago courtroom have worked for Black or his wife, writer and socialite Barbara Amiel. Some are even friends. Take the case of Maclean's, the weekly newsmagazine. Its publisher and editor, Ken Whyte, who once ran the Hollinger flagship publications Saturday Night magazine and the National Post newspaper, testified for the defense. Whyte bolstered the defense's claim that Black's expensive parties, paid for in part by the company, were work related. Whyte's fidelity to his former employer was also stated outright. "I suppose I'm loyal...
...Maclean's is not the only publication whose writers have ties to the Blacks. The Globe and Mail newspaper columnist Christie Blatchford, who covered the trial's early weeks, worked for Black at the National Post and Amiel at the Toronto Sun. Then there are the articles written bythe Blacks: the National Post gave Black a column before his trial and ran excerpts from his biography of Richard Nixon, while Amiel has continued her longstanding column in - where else - Maclean...
...observations than those on the outside. Blatchford, who says she stopped covering the trial because she was bored, scoffed at the notion that she was part of Black's "retinue," as another columnist at the Globe and Mail implied. But Blatchford did acknowledge that her connections to Black and Amiel could be seen as a plus by editors or readers. "It gives it, in the wretched modern phrase, 'added value,'" she says. In a country that has produced few personalities of Conrad Black's proportions, perhaps that kind of value is just worth too much to sacrifice for the hope...
Black's problems may be just starting, however. Tweedy, Browne's complaints to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) go much deeper. Black and his wife, columnist Barbara Amiel, and several top executives received other payments now being examined. Black, Amiel and the executives are affiliated with a private firm called Ravelston Corp., which received $203 million from Hollinger from 1995 to 2002 for so-called service agreements. Hollinger admitted in March that these agreements "were not the result of arm's length negotiations between independent parties" and thus may not be favorable to the company. Yet Hollinger's board...