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...dressing up as Santa Claus and painting their faces at parties. According to prosecutors, Corliss, 58, described his sexual encounters with three prepubescent Thai boys as a "euphoric" experience. He is being held without bond and scheduled for a hearing on Monday. He could face 20 years in prison if convicted on the charges...
...Just as Olivier Messiaen's time in a Nazi prison camp forced the French composer to experiment with novel orchestrations, Htein Lin's years in prison gave him a technique uniquely adapted to privation. Even after his release, he has continued to paint in the primitive, almost childlike style he developed in jail. "He has this need to fill his canvases with as much as he can," Weber says, "because he may not have another chance." In a recent painting of his adopted home, for instance, Htein Lin depicts London as a chaotic welter of traffic and pedestrians. Every inch...
Thanks to Youtube and Funny or Die, short films haven't been this hip since the days they were made by guys named Chaplin and Keaton. But for a higher-minded sample of the genre than cursing toddlers and Philippine prison dances, pick up the DVD COLLECTION OF 2007 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED SHORT FILMS. The most inventive shorts are in the animation category, particularly two painstakingly made stop-motion movies with not a lick of dialogue. In Madam Tutli-Putli, a woman boards a night train laden with all her possessions--and ghosts. The filmmakers imposed images of real human...
Accused of running a Washington prostitution ring for 13 years, the woman known best as the "D.C. Madam" took her own life when faced with the prospect of a prison sentence of up to 55 years. Deborah Jeane Palfrey was convicted on April 15 of charges associated with what she called a sexual-fantasy service and what prosecutors alleged was a cover for a prostitution ring that counted many high-profile politicians among its clientele. In the 1990s, Palfrey was incarcerated for her links to another prostitution circuit and vowed never to return to prison. Author Dan Moldea, whom Palfrey...
Facing a year in prison in 1959 for marrying across racial lines, Mildred Jeter Loving, a black woman, and her white husband Richard Loving decided to fight the legal system in their home state of Virginia. In 1967 the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the Justices ruled unanimously against the Virginia decision. Chief Justice Earl Warren dismissed such laws as "repugnant" to the Constitution. In words that seem prescient today, Loving said in 1965, "We are not marrying the state. The law should allow a person to marry anyone he wants...