Word: conviction
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...video for Canadian indie band Apostle of Hustle’s “Cheap Like Sebastien” raises some interesting questions. Who knew frontman Andrew Whiteman could dance? And doesn’t he kind of look like an ex-convict? The answers don’t really matter. For those who are entertained by Buddhist monks and brief-wearing Neanderthals, for those amused by priests rocking out to strobe lights and Native Americans dancing with dead animals (may they rest in peace), for all those who simply wonder why Sebastien is so cheap: This is the video...
...Cogan, a part-time real estate broker, contends that Bill and Hillary Clinton defrauded businessman Peter Paul into footing the almost $2 million bill for a Clinton fundraiser in August 2000. Cogan’s film says Bill Clinton promised he would enter into business with Paul, a former convict for cocaine possession, after leaving the White House...
...Mississippi during the "Freedom Summer" of 1964, Fannie Lee Chaney moved out of the state to escape death threats. The murders of Chaney and two fellow civil rights workers inspired the movie Mississippi Burning --but led to no state murder indictments until 2005, when Fannie Lee's testimony helped convict and imprison Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen. Following a funeral service at the chapel that memorialized her son, Fannie Lee was buried next to James' grave in Meridian, Miss. She was 84. Since 1964, when Alvin--the deep-diving submarine that engineer Harold Froehlich designed--was launched, the vessel...
...film’s feature villain is Venom, an alien organism who exploits Parker’s growing inner darkness in a perverse and disgusting way: it infects him before finding a permanent host in Eddie Brock (Topher Grace). Venom is joined by Sandman (Thomas Haden Church), an escaped convict-turned-mutant whose chance trip into an experimental reactor leaves him with power to control the sand. And adding to all of these new threats, there’s that murderous friend, Harry Osborn (James Franco), who has become the new Green Goblin, Spider-Man’s most dangerous...
...action-packed adrenaline rush of a movie with enough bombs and gore to satiate the audience’s needs—assuming the audience is your average American male youth, thirsty for the return of Stone Cold and epic violence. In the film, 10 death row convicts from across the world are “purchased” by an aspiring Internet entrepreneur and dropped on a deserted island. Their goal: be the last one standing. The sole survivor earns his (or her) freedom from prison. Meanwhile, the corrupt producer films every second and broadcasts it live over...