Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WORLD PREMIERE (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The first in a series of movies to be shown on TV prior to release in the theaters, Fame Is the Name of the Game, a murder mys tery starring Anthony Franciosa, Jill...
...Fein's appeal and his conviction becomes final." Indeed, Nancy Nahon was free to remarry from the moment Fein was sentenced to life imprisonment and thus became "civilly dead," his marriage ipso facto terminated. In a civil proceeding brought by the family of the alleged victim of the murder for which Fein was convicted, Supreme Court Justice Charles Marks stated: "The declaration of civil decease and disability is clearly effective as of the time of the imposition of sentence. It is not dependent upon nor stayed because of any appeal of the judgment of conviction which may be taken...
...much graver crime than homicide." But St. Augustine condemned it as "a detestable and damnable wickedness," perhaps to put a stop to a growing tendency of extremist Christians to seek instant sainthood via self-martyrdom. From the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century in Europe, self-murder was stigmatized by the full force of church and state-a suicide's property was confiscated, his body was dragged through the streets and buried at a crossroads, with a stake driven through the heart (presumably to keep him from haunting the living). In Asia, by contrast, suicide...
Last summer's macabre mass murders in Chicago and Austin seemed irresistibly fascinating to Robert Benjamin Smith, 18, studious, reticent high school senior in Mesa, Ariz. (pop. 50,000). Three months ago, Bob Smith began to concoct his own nightmarish schemes for multiple murder. After toying with several other likely sites, he settled on the Rose-Mar College of Beauty, a mile and a half from his home, because of the number of potential victims-student beauticians and housewife customers-to be found there...
...When it was done," moaned Actress Geraldine Chaplin, 22, "I felt weird. Naked. I felt I'd forgotten to put on my trousers or my sweater or something." It seems that for her part in a murder movie called Stranger in the House, Charlie's daughter had to have her 30-in. tresses snipped off, wound up looking more like her father than ever. "Well," she said on the set in London, "it was nice to be feminine once." She still looked distinctly like a girl, however, when she climbed a fence between scenes and displayed some...