Word: moxleys
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...critical darling, returns to CBS this summer despite middling ratings. And he has three other pilots that, chances are, will show up on some network's fall lineup. Cold Cases is Without a Trace with cases that are 20 years old instead of 10 days old (i.e., Martha Moxley, not Chandra Levy). Fearless is a WB drama about an FBI agent (Rachael Leigh Cook) who is missing the fear gene. And Skin (Fox) is a Romeo and Juliet tale in which Romeo's dad is a district attorney and Juliet's dad is a porn magnate. Bruckheimer takes low culture...
Fuhrman redeemed himself--at least in the eyes of news-show bookers--by going to wealthy Greenwich, Conn., to look into the 1975 bludgeoning death of teenager Martha Moxley. The case had never been solved, though rumors pointed to two neighbor kids, Tommy and Michael Skakel, members of the extended Kennedy family. A bungled case, a famous name, the rich possibly getting off scot-free: the case was Fuhrman's white whale or, more accurately, his white O.J. After poking around, Fuhrman concluded that Michael had killed Moxley in a fit of jealousy because she liked abusive ladies' man Tommy...
Murder in Greenwich (USA, Nov. 15, 8 p.m. E.T.) adapts the 1998 Fuhrman book by the same name. As a true-crime rehash, it's shoddier than usual, especially marred by Moxley's corny narration from beyond the grave. ("No one knew what to think," she says. "There were no murders in heaven.") But as a snapshot of Fuhrman's self-image, it's fascinating. Fuhrman--as interpreted by Fuhrman--is a driven detective, frustrated by the Greenwich cops (he says they're "brain dead," lazy and afraid to offend their rich patrons) and an unforgiving world. We know that...
...SENTENCED. MICHAEL SKAKEL, 41, to 20 years to life in prison for the 1975 murder of his teenage neighbor Martha Moxley; in Norwalk, Connecticut. Skakel, nephew of Robert F. Kennedy's widow Ethel, testified for the first time on the day of sentencing, tearfully saying he was innocent. During the trial, a prosecution witness testified that Skakel had told him: "I'm going to get away with murder, because I'm a Kennedy...
...wanted Susie's story to be a novel." It is: The Lovely Bones is free of any veiled autobiographical traces, and that's both a personal and an artistic triumph. If Susie's breezy, wisecracking voice sounds eerily familiar, that's because it could belong to a Martha Moxley or a Chandra Levy or a JonBenét Ramsey or any of the other little girls lost whose faces haunt billboards and photocopied flyers and whose stories we play and replay obsessively on the 6 o'clock news. "Murder had a blood red door," Susie tells us, "on the other...