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...best film in the Hitchcock canon is sometimes overshadowed by its more influential siblings Psycho and Vertigo. But the story of quadriplegic Jeff Jeffries (James Stewart) and his tedium-induced mission to uncover the possible murder of a neighboring tenant is a gripping exercise in guilty-pleasure voyeurism and paranoid tension. Part of the Harvard Film Archive’s “Frames of Mind” series. Tickets $6. 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive...
...Friday's verdict by a Manhattan jury holds, Martha Stewart could soon be doing her homemaking in the proverbial big house. After deliberating for three days at the end of a five week trial, a jury found the icon of domestic taste guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and two counts of making false statements - a rap sheet that could earn her up to 20 years in prison. Her stockbroker, Peter Bacanovic was convicted on charges of conspiracy, perjury, obstruction of justice and making false statements. Moments after the verdict, Stewart in a statement on her Website said she would...
TIME has covered Stewart from her rise as "the new guru of American taste" to her spectacular fall. Some highlights...
...friendship was over, however, by the time Pasternak, 50, delivered some of the most damaging testimony yet against Stewart in her trial for allegedly lying to the feds about why she dumped stock of biotech firm ImClone Systems in late 2001. When the two were staying at a luxury resort in Mexico in the days after Stewart sold her shares, Pasternak testified, Stewart confided that she had got rid of them because she knew that ImClone CEO Sam Waksal, their mutual friend, and his daughters had tried to dump their stock. "Isn't it nice to have brokers who tell...
Pasternak--who may have been persuaded to testify after federal investigators quizzed her vascular surgeon ex-husband about selling his ImClone stock the day after Stewart sold hers--appeared cool and unruffled as she ratted on her former friend. Stewart, during the testimony, mostly avoided eye contact and scribbled notes. This week she'll be back in court--without her friend--as the defense makes its case...