Word: murderable
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...Anthony Hopkins is not affronted in Fracture. As Ted Crawford, a super-smart engineer, he's pretty much recycling the rumbling intellectual arrogance of Hannibal Lecter and he seems energetically happy in his work. This time he murders his unfaithful wife, cheerfully admits the crime and acts as his own attorney in the subsequent murder trial. There are two main plot lines in Daniel Pyne and Glenn Gers' screenplay. One is that the police officer investigating the case is, in fact, the dead woman's lover, which opens the possibility of doctored evidence. The other is the cat-and-mouse...
...chic and even the courthouse - in real life they're pretty scuzzy places - has a kind of burnished glow about it. We relax into envy when we want to be drawn into terror. Luxe is, I think, the enemy of our involvement. It renders passion dispassionate and turns murder into a kind of fashion statement, something we observe without really caring about...
...just did that with Law and Order. I played a bigot who commits a murder. It was a darker role, and I actually enjoyed it. But once you are pegged as a comedian, you are going to be used as that. It's not a choice one makes as much as one the studio makes...
...years later, after Pitonyak was given a life sentence for the murder, Austin firemen and policemen who followed Sedwick into the apartment are still undergoing counseling, Cave says. Sedwick and her family are also being counseled by therapists and the family priest. But all that help still can't prevent daily, commonplace events from triggering the horrible memories. "We don't eat anything in our house that is carved and there is a certain type of garbage bag with a red cinch that we don't use," Cave says...
...agonizing as the recounting of her daughter's murder during the trial was to bear for Cave herself, she also worried about the jurors, four of whom weren't yet 30 years old. At one point during the trial a young juror cried softly all day. Soon after the verdict Cave begin researching the issue of juror counseling, and what she found was not much comfort. Jury counseling, or debriefing as it is sometimes called, has been used in several high-profile cases including the trial of Jeffrey Dahmer and the Oklahoma City bombing case, according to the National Center...