Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Andy Hardy had it easy. The town of Carvel, where MGM set its 15 popular Hardy-family films between 1937 and 1947, knew no crime or addiction. The lawns in front of those two-story white houses were as smooth as an Emerald City carpet, and Dad's morning newspaper always landed smartly on the front porch. When girls gossiped about "the pill," they were referring to an % unpopular guy at the far end of the study hall. If Go-Getting Teenager Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) got "in trouble" with a debutante or chorus girl, it wouldn't be that...
...concerned the "evidence" found in Taylor's bungalow: it had been planted there by Paramount. The studio wanted Taylor portrayed as a Casanova to disguise his homosexual private life. Even more surprising was the fact that the police had barely investigated several obvious leads. Working alone, Vidor traced the crime to its source. But he never made the movie, and never made any use of his more than 650 pages of notes and records...
...another 7-to-2 decision involving racial bias, the court ruled that a defendant on trial for a crime that carries the death penalty is entitled to have prospective jurors questioned about possible racial bias if the charges concern an interracial crime. In the 1979 Virginia murder trial of Willie Lloyd Turner, the judge refused to ask potential jurors whether their verdict would be influenced by the fact that the defendant was black and the victim white. The court's new rule is necessary, Justice White said, because "the risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially...
Here was the film I had been waiting for all my life: a steamy crime thriller set in the lush Florida everglades, with a low-key knight of hard-talking, hard-hitting idealism taking on the odds and somehow pulling through. It was going to be another Key Largo, the 1948 John Huston picture that pitted Humphrey Bogart against Edward G. Robinson, struggling with wits and pistols in the claustrophobic setting of a hurricance-cursed Florida Keys resort hotel, with life, death and Lauren Bacall all on the line...
Outrageous decisions like these happen because of the Stalinesque nature of the Ad Board, whose members--the top College deans, senior tutors and certain other officials--meet every Tuesday behind closed doors. Where else in this country would you be likely not to know what crime you were charged with? Where else in this country would you have no opportunity to defend yourself in person? Where else in this country would your court-appointed defense attorney also serve as one of your prosecutors? Where else in this country would the judicial body have no responsibility to any higher authority...