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...these vectors are at play in Lee's novel, which after all is cast not as a Scottsboro Boys-style docudrama of racial injustice in the '30s but as a daughter's loving evocation of her dad, seen through a child's eyes. This is the perspective that Foote's Oscar-winning script faithfully transposed to the screen, and that Mary Badham, who played Scout Finch, embodied with such unaffected clarity that, at 10, she received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. As for Mulligan, no one has cited him for anything but the sensitive handling of story, actors...
Ever wonder where lost luggage winds up if it never finds its way home? At unclaimedbaggage.com the website for a 31-year-old store in Scottsboro, Ala., you can buy orphan luggage and cargo at a fraction of the original cost. The site has sold a wide variety of lost goods, including cell-phone accessories, a 75-carat aquamarine, even a suit of armor. "We often say that if these bags could talk, what a story they'd tell," says Bryan Owens, Unclaimed Baggage's CEO. How does the company get its hands on these goods? Airlines pay settlements...
...Jazz means fornication. There were several young men who were accused of raping a young lady, the Scottsboro Boys...
...would he like people to call it? Bird said, simply music. So now, you’re not just relegated to these little joints where the acoustics are bad, pianos are bad, just a lot of negative stuff goes on in these places. This again gets back to the Scottsboro Boys. Check all this...
...tired of being dismissed in a political culture that makes "moderation" the pre-eminent virtue. Ideological taxonomists will find the lineup of shadow convention speakers--from Jesse Jackson to Paul Wellstone--eerily predictable and not particularly transcendent. All that's missing is a candlelight vigil for the Scottsboro Boys...