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...there were no TV or video markets to extend a movie's shelf life, studios briskly recycled many of their properties. RKO filmed Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely as an episode of the low-budget Falcon series in 1942 and then remade it as an A picture (Murder, My Sweet) two years later. In predigital days, directors like Cecil B. DeMille, Leo McCarey and Alfred Hitchcock didn't go back and "improve" their old movies, as Lucas did with Star Wars or Spielberg with E.T. They simply remade them 15 or 20 years later...
...John Timoney. The law's supporters dismiss such concerns as liberal hysteria and extol the bill's passage as a victory for law-abiding citizens. Wayne LaPierre, the N.R.A.'s excruciatingly macho executive vice president, crowed, "[This will] make criminals pause before they commit their next rape, robbery or murder...
Instead of an angry mob of students demanding transparency from the super-secret and dictatorial Harvard Corporation, we have Senior Gift Plus, which politely asked Harvard to stop funding rape and mass murder in Darfur. And even that noble and successful movement had its detractors: a group of largely wealthy undergrads who had pledged their own pocket money (raised no doubt, from their after-school jobs, right?) to Fair Harvard, and couldn’t absorb the idea that there was a legitimate objection to their peers duly shelling out cash...
...addition, Judge Patrick F. Brady sentenced Parker and the Vasquez brothers to an additional nine to 10 years in prison for the kidnapping charges and Luis Vasquez to a second consecutive life sentence for raping Nachtwey before she was killed. If the murder charges are overturned on appeal, Parker and the Vasquez brothers would still have to serve out their other sentences...
...women who were also initially accused in Nachtwey’s murder had earlier pleaded guilty to lesser charges in exchange for testifying against the other defendants. As part of the deal, Lauren Alleyne, 21, will be sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison, and Ana White, 21—who has already served more than three years for the incident—will be sentenced to 12 years in prison...