![]() ![]() The Crown alleged Ms Austen imported pentobarbitone, then provided it to Mrs Treadwell, who used it to commit suicide. ![]() Pentobarbitone is a Class C drug under New Zealand law, although veterinarians can lawfully use it to euthanise animals. The autopsy found the cause of death to be pentobarbitone toxicity. Initially, police didn't suspect suicide, but an autopsy was later ordered after a suicide note was found in a drawer in Treadwell's room. Mrs Treadwell was found dead in her bed at her Kilbirnie rest home on June 6, 2016. ![]() The verdict was returned on Friday afternoon in the Wellington High Court.Īusten is the Wellington coordinator of EXIT International, a pro-assisted dying group that Mrs Treadwell was a member of. It also found Austen not guilty on one charge of importing a Class C drug, but guilty on two charges of the same offence. A jury has found euthanasia activist Susan Austen not guilty of aiding the suicide of 77-year-old Annemarie Treadwell. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The narrator, whose identity we don’t know, tells the story and relates the scenes in the same change of notes, short and long, as in jazz music. Jazz music has travelled with black African-Americans, their experiences, struggles, pains, and joys, through song and dance. Meanwhile, Joe is lost in deep grief for this dead lover. Some weeks after the funeral Violet starts visiting Dorcas’s aunt and the visits become regular. Joe’s wife Violet arrives at the funeral and slashes the dead girl’s face with a knife. Thereafter begins their affair and months later when Dorcas grows tired of him, he shoots her after following her to a party. ![]() ![]() Middle-aged Joe Trace meets eighteen-year-old Dorcas when he’s selling cosmetics at her aunt’s place. This element is what I first noticed about the way this story mirrors the genre itself. What sets jazz music apart is the element of improvisation, which gives artists the ability to express themselves in any way they want, and still keep a soulful and enjoyable rhythm. ![]() ![]() ![]() For every day he overcomes he gets to visit a place on earth he never saw before, and the reader is taken to places like Half Dome in Yosemite and Venice, where Pachu and Clive discuss existence and the meaning of life. Each day Clive revisits events in life in a sort of spiritual recording, the same events that took him from being an optimistic young man to a curmudgeon. But, if Clive can't overcome his regrets he'll be forced to wander the place between Heaven and Earth. At his own funeral Clive meets Pachu, his grandfather who had died years before, and with Pachu he begins a journey through his life where he has to finally face his greatest regrets and agonies. he never faced the ghosts that haunted him. In fact, he never got out of his small Southern town. He never wrote for a big newspaper in a big city. ![]() Despite all his gifts he could only see what he didn't have. He had a family who loved him and he was never without a job, a place to live, or a warm meal. LIFE'S SHORT WHEN COMPARED TO ETERNITY, BUT ETERNITY IS ONLY WORTH IT BECAUSE OF LIFE.Clive Kinsella lived a good life. ![]() ![]() ![]() In July the actress was honored at an “Academy Centennial Celebration With Gloria Stuart” at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.Īs a glamorous blond actress under contract to Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox in the 1930s, Stuart appeared opposite Claude Rains in James Whale’s “The Invisible Man” and with Warner Baxter in John Ford’s “The Prisoner of Shark Island.” Said, “but she just paid no attention to illness. “She also was a breast cancer survivor,” Thompson ![]() ![]() Stuart had been diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago. Night at her West Los Angeles home, said her daughter, writer Sylvia Thompson. Who later became an accomplished painter and fine printer, died Sunday Stuart, a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild Survivor of the Titanic in James Cameron’s 1997 Oscar-winning film - has died. Significant role in nearly 60 years - as Old Rose, the centenarian Leading lady who earned an Academy Award nomination for her first LOS ANGELES - Gloria Stuart, a 1930s Hollywood ![]() ![]() These already dark, hardboiled films suddenly gained a newfound viciousness and sense of ambiguity, their dangers and existential inquiries directed at audiences through canted camera angles and a shroud of smoke and shadows.Īs the war reached its end stage, soldiers came home to find a once-unquestioned era of male authority put in the crosshairs of changing cultural norms. Noir came into its own alongside the ravages of World War II, with the gangster and detective films of the era drastically transforming into something altogether new as the aesthetics of German Expressionism took hold in America, and in large part due to the influx of German expatriates like Fritz Lang. And while this period contains the quintessence of what Italian-born French film critic Nino Frank originally characterized as film noir, the genre has always been in a constant state of flux, adapting to the different times and cultures out of which these films emerged. ![]() Purists will argue that film noir was born in 1941 with the release of John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon and died in 1958 with Marlene Dietrich traipsing down a long, dark, lonely road at the end of Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil. ![]() ![]() No one will ever again card me for a drink or demand that I weave a floor mat out of newspapers. ![]() I remind myself that I am now a full-grown man. As an added discomfort, they were all young, attractive, and well dressed, causing me to feel not unlike Pa Kettle trapped backstage after a fashion show. ![]() Some accents were better than others, but the students exhibited an ease and confidence I found intimidating. Regardless of their nationalities, everyone spoke what sounded to me like excellent French. Vacations were recounted, and questions were raised concerning mutual friends with names like Kang and Vlatnya. ![]() My school is the Alliance Française, and on the first day of class, I arrived early, watching as the returning students greeted one another in the school lobby. I've moved to Paris in order to learn the language. ![]() At the age of forty-one, I am returning to school and having to think of myself as what my French textbook calls "a true debutant." After paying my tuition, I was issued a student ID, which allows me a discounted entry fee at movie theaters, puppet shows, and Festyland, a far-flung amusement park that advertises with billboards picturing a cartoon stegosaurus sitting in a canoe and eating what appears to be a ham sandwich. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their particular voice and perspective is yoked to how the story feels, and in the case of a book like John Green’s novel Looking for Alaska, the narration by teen boy protagonist Miles “Pudge” Halter is the book’s greatest tool and its most obfuscating feature Miles, as the main storyteller, simultaneously enacts and short-circuits the book’s central ideas. ![]() Third-person narrators can sometimes be translated into a camera eye without requiring major story compensations, but first-person narrators present a specific variety of trickiness, and adapting them can be either a huge boon or an inescapable mire. Of all the challenges that come with adapting a book for the screen, the question of what to do with a book’s narrator is often the most intractable. Hulu’s Looking for Alaska gets outside the head of teen protagonist Miles Halter (Charlie Plummer) in order to craft a fuller picture of other characters like Alaska Young (Kristine Froseth). ![]() ![]() ![]() Resistance is the supreme act of faith.ĭuring the Vietnam War, on the afternoon of May 17, 1968, nine Catholics, including two brothers, the radical priests Phil and Dan Berrigan, entered the draft board in Catonsville, Md., and seized Selective Service records. ![]() We resist not because we will succeed, but because it is right. Nothing less than this faith will sustain us. The struggle against the monstrous radical evil that dominates our lives-an evil that is swiftly despoiling the earth and driving the human species toward extinction, stripping us of our most basic civil liberties and freedoms, waging endless war and solidifying the obscene wealth of an oligarchic elite at our expense-will be fought only with the belief that resistance, however futile, insignificant and even self-defeating it may appear, can set in motion moral and spiritual forces that radiate outward to inspire others, including those who come after us. ![]() ![]() ![]() TV writer Andrea Kail says that Nightflyers lacks any sort of creative vision, and that the show just seems to be trying to cash in on Martin’s name. “And it turned out that he had sold the rights as part of the contract for the 1987 feature film and he hadn’t even realized it.” ![]() “He says that he heard they were making this show and he was like, ‘How can they do that? I haven’t given them the rights,'” Kirtley says. Martin was barely involved with the show. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley had high hopes for Nightflyers, but was disappointed to learn that George R. “I felt like they watched a lot of science fiction movies and TV and said, ‘Oh, that would be cool, that would be cool, that would be cool.’ But it never really cohered into a solid narrative.” “To me it just felt like someone was unfamiliar with the tropes of science fiction,” he says. ![]() Science fiction author Matthew Kressel notes that Nightflyers never really moves beyond recycling familiar elements from better movies and TV shows. ![]() ![]() He's trailed by an Indian acquaintance who takes his job as finding Mike, not necessarily capturing him. The rest of the novel tells the story of his ride through parts of Colorado and Wyoming, expecting things to end badly, but in a way of his choosing. Mike leaves a note on the body taking responsibility and then takes flight on horseback. The rope breaks the ATV-riding neighbor's neck, and while the man's death isn't an outright murder, neither is it an accident. I'd been on the lookout for his THE MEADOW, so when I came across FENCING THE SKY in a used bookstore, I brought it home and got roped in immediately by the opening scene in which Mike, a struggling small-time rancher, lassos a rapacious developer neighbor who's harassing the cattle he's trying to round up. When I gulp one down in 24 hours, though, I give full credit to the writer. ![]() ![]() Sometimes it's the author's fault when I don't but usually it's because I find other things to do. ![]() It's rare for me to finish a book quickly. ![]() |