Tonight’s episode of Reasonable Doubt on Investigation Discovery revolves around Erick Westervelt, who was convicted in 2004 of murdering his ex-girlfriend with a hatchet after she broke his heart. The episode, titled Rivals in Love, tracks Reasonable Doubt’s stars — retired homicide detective Chris Anderson and high-profile defense attorney Melissa Lewkowicz — as they try to find out if there’s enough evidence to prove Westervelt’s innocence beyond a reasonable doubt. Westervelt is in prison on a charge of murdering 28-year-old Timothy Gray in Bethlehem, New York. Someone reportedly went to Gray’s house, beat him in the head and face with a hatchet and repeatedly...read more...
- 5/3/2017
- by Kurt Orzeck
- Monsters and Critics
Blood Simple
Directed by Joel Coen
Screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
USA, 1984
Love them or loathe them, the Coen Brothers are indisputably an institution in Hollywood cinema, lone wolves of distinctive style and tone who continue to put out top standard films never as straightforward as they seemingly should do. The signature brand of farcical situations, gallows humor and bleakly cynical philosophy that Ethan and Joel sign off each of their works with has become just as imitable, and just as irreplaceable, as Scorcese beat editing or Tarantino small talk.
To find their purest work, one merely has to go back to their bow as fully fledged filmmakers, 1984’s Blood Simple. Named for a Dashiell Hammett coinage and putting an authentically idiotic slant on classic amoral hardboiled noir, the duo’s debut has since become the clear inspiration behind numerous pretenders in the years since. Unlike their later efforts,...
Directed by Joel Coen
Screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
USA, 1984
Love them or loathe them, the Coen Brothers are indisputably an institution in Hollywood cinema, lone wolves of distinctive style and tone who continue to put out top standard films never as straightforward as they seemingly should do. The signature brand of farcical situations, gallows humor and bleakly cynical philosophy that Ethan and Joel sign off each of their works with has become just as imitable, and just as irreplaceable, as Scorcese beat editing or Tarantino small talk.
To find their purest work, one merely has to go back to their bow as fully fledged filmmakers, 1984’s Blood Simple. Named for a Dashiell Hammett coinage and putting an authentically idiotic slant on classic amoral hardboiled noir, the duo’s debut has since become the clear inspiration behind numerous pretenders in the years since. Unlike their later efforts,...
- 10/28/2012
- by Scott Patterson
- SoundOnSight
Photograph Courtesy of Ted, by Marla Aufmuth, James Duncan Davidson, Andrew Heavens, Robert Leslie, Asa Mathat
Chris Anderson: The entrepreneur bought Ted in 2001. "It felt like something you could devote your life to," he says. | Photograph Courtesy of Ted
Inside the World's Most Exclusive (and Most Accessible) Club with Special Guests including
Elizabeth Gilbert • Richard Branson • Jamie Oliver • Malcolm Gladwell • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala • Barry Schwartz • Ken Robinson • Sarah Silverman • Bill Clinton • David Byrne • Bill Gates • Craig VenterJill • Bolte Taylor • Dave Eggers • Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy • Sunitha Krishnan • Tony Robbins • Julia Sweeney • Isabel Allende • E.O. Wilson • and the chief himself, Chris Anderson!
The other day, I got an email from a new friend. The subject line read "Are you a Ted talk person?" It linked to an 18-minute video of MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely talking about the bugs in our moral codes. Other friends have sent me videos of Eat, Pray, Love...
Chris Anderson: The entrepreneur bought Ted in 2001. "It felt like something you could devote your life to," he says. | Photograph Courtesy of Ted
Inside the World's Most Exclusive (and Most Accessible) Club with Special Guests including
Elizabeth Gilbert • Richard Branson • Jamie Oliver • Malcolm Gladwell • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala • Barry Schwartz • Ken Robinson • Sarah Silverman • Bill Clinton • David Byrne • Bill Gates • Craig VenterJill • Bolte Taylor • Dave Eggers • Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy • Sunitha Krishnan • Tony Robbins • Julia Sweeney • Isabel Allende • E.O. Wilson • and the chief himself, Chris Anderson!
The other day, I got an email from a new friend. The subject line read "Are you a Ted talk person?" It linked to an 18-minute video of MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely talking about the bugs in our moral codes. Other friends have sent me videos of Eat, Pray, Love...
- 8/23/2010
- by Anya Kamenetz
- Fast Company
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