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Davis' attorney has been filing a flurry of requests for a stay of execution until a new trial can be held. Meanwhile Davis' sister, Martina Correia, has helped assemble an diverse group of advocates - from Dead Man Walking author Sister Helen Prejean to South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu to former FBI director William S. Sessions (a death penalty supporter) - to petition the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles to commute Davis' sentence to life in prison when it meets on July 16, the day before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection...
Tord Boontje (Rizzoli International Publications) Martina Margetts, who teaches at London's Royal College of Art, and Dutch product and furniture designer Tord Boontje collaborated on this comprehensive look at Boontje's designs over the past decade...
...offers a number of other talented actors that display some unforgettable moments during the film. Hans–Uwe Bauer, who plays a controversial writer and friend to Dreyman, adds an important element of anger that clashes with Dreyman’s naïvely optimistic attitude. Martina Gedeck, who plays Dreyman’s girlfriend, delivers the most clear external example of the destruction wrought by internal conflict—the audience watches as she is worn down to a nub by the struggle between right and wrong. The director also makes the score a key element, elevating...
...network--is in full fester, keeping watch on artists and political dissidents, forcing many into obeisance or jail, silence or suicide. Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe), a mousy Stasi captain, plants bugs in the home of chic playwright Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and his actress girlfriend Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck). Wiesler and his coarser superiors have motives as complex as they are nasty: to please a party boss, to tease out scenarios of voyeuristic lust and, well, because they can. Wiesler has another reason to spy and pry: he's good at it. So when Dreyman decides to write...
...story in an unnerving article that states the research "raises the prospect that pregnant women could one day be offered a treatment to reduce or eliminate the chance that their offspring will be homosexual." The story has pinged around quite a few blogs since, and Rush Limbaugh and Martina Navratilova have taken their predicted positions. (Limbaugh: gay activists finally have a reason to oppose abortion. Navratilova: homophobes are murdering gay sheep...