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...June 12, 1982: At four that morning, while a boarder in the Santa Monica home of Leonie Haddad, she entered the bedroom of her sleeping landlady, straddled her and shook her awake, brandishing a foot-long serrated bread knife and whispering, "God has inspired me to kill you!" She attacked Haddad, Foster writes, "slicing her from the corner of her mouth to her ear ... Bettie stabbed Haddad four times in the chest, narrowly missing her heart... stabbed the hand eight times, severing the top of Haddad's third finger." When brought to court, "Bettie pleaded not guilty but changed...
...Goodman 55, Sarandon 61, are more likely to be Spritle's grandparents than his parents. Or that Speed's forever girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci, her ivory face framed by a helmet of black hair that evokes either Louise Brooks or Moe Howard) has been taken in as a permanent boarder. Or that the other members of the clan, both from the original TV series, are the Australian mechanic Sparky (Kick Gurry) and a monkey named Chim Chim. Traditional movie plausibility is irrelevant in Speed Racer's part retro, part nextro, all-artificial syntho world...
...opening faculty meeting in the fall of 1960, the Concord Academy teachers were alerted to the arrival of a new freshman boarder from a small town in Virginia. She was only 12 years old, about to be 13. It seemed likely that she would be homesick, unsure of herself, slow to make friends. Drew Gilpin—known in high school simply as Drewdie—was none of those things...
...Boston boardinghouse owner Jessie Barron bought Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, with a down payment of $2,500. She did this at the behest of her longtime boarder and not-so-longtime second husband, financial writer Clarence Barron. But Mrs. Barron really was the owner, and when she died in 1918, her majority share passed to her daughter by her first marriage, Jane Bancroft...
...ladies. One woman in particular, the vampish Joyce, gets kinda kinky over this man in black with the super-long fingernails, and has a vigorous erotic go at Edward. But his devotion is focused on Peg's teenage daughter Kim, who is both scared of the new boarder and preoccupied with her loutish boyfriend...