A Chicago office space rental company filed suit Thursday against David Hernandez, the Downers Grove businessman facing charges that he scammed investors and Chicago sports radio personalities out of $11 million. Amata, a Chicago-based office space provider, allege in the lawsuit that the businessman misled the company about the legal status of Nextstep Financial Services, one of the entities Hernandez...
Former Bulls center Eddy Curry filed suit Wednesday against a former agent and business manager, adding another legal battle to a long list of disputes involving the professional basketball player. The lawsuit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, alleges that Lamont Carter failed to provide a complete accounting of how much money he received and spent on Curry's behalf while serving as his agent between...
The Locket is a 1946 film directed by John Brahm and starring Robert Mitchum . Youtube has this online divided up into 10 segments, which ought to autoplay from here: Bright Lights Film Journal says, "Fans of The Locket cherish it for its neurotic heroine (Laraine Day) and its flashback-within-a-flashback-within-a-flashback plot structure." MSN and TCM have overviews.
Border Patrol is a 1943 Hopalong Cassidy western film. Robert Mitchum and George Reeves are in this one. Mitchum had credited roles in 6 Hopalong Cassidy films. Watch it online thanks to the Internet Archive: MSN and TCM have overviews.
Aerial Gunner is a 1943 war movie. Its main claim to fame as far as I'm concerned is that it has Robert Mitchum in an early uncredited performance. GoogleVideo has this online: The New York Times doesn't mention Mitchum and describes the film as "heroics for the bumpkins in one-syllable clichés."
Today is the anniversary of the death in 1997 of Robert Mitchum , another long-time favorite of mine. Here are the films I have posts on: Aerial Gunner (1943) Out of the Past (1947) Where Danger Lives (1950) What a Way to Go! (1964) FilmReference.com closes by saying, "Although filmgoers have enjoyed this late bloomer's laconic presence for years, the critical and popular consensus has finally...
Go away. What is it that holds you here? Certainly not my riveting good looks! I mean, surely I'm attractive, but not so much that you'd be deaf to my pleas for solitude. You must have some purpose behind your lollygagging about, here. Ah, of course, you came here for a reading. And, after I give you one, you will leave, correct? That makes this almost bearable. So, here you are, so you can go: You...
An 11-year-old boy was in stable condition at a Chicago hospital Tuesday night after being shot in the right inner thigh in the Marquette Park neighborhood, police said. The shooting occurred about 8:15 p.m. in the 7100 block of South Rockwell Avenue, said Chicago Police News Affairs spokesman Kevin Kilmer. The victim was taken to a local hospital "by unknown means," Kilmer said. A Fire...
A 48-year-old Lansing woman was struck and killed by an Amtrak train in the south suburb this evening, authorities said. The woman was on foot when she was struck by the train in the 18300 block of Torrence Avenue in Lansing, according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's office. Lansing police declined to comment on the incident tonight, but an Amtrak spokeswoman said that their reports...
Lt. Commander Ken White (William Holden) spends the post-WWII years toiling in a dull desk job, increasingly haunted by an incident that happened on the Tiger Shark, a submarine under his command, on the last day of the war. As the Korean War begins to heat up, Ken finds himself once again commanding the Tiger Shark. Can Ken finally put his bad memories to rest? Nancy Olson plays Holden's beautiful...
Incredibly, Gwinnett County, Georgia Magistrate Robert Mitchum calls a mother's handcuffing of her 15 year-old special needs child 1 for the purpose of exorcising Satan from the teenage boy "a course of action the that government does not like or does not understand"—yeah!, most might call it grossly negligent or criminal 2 parenting; child abuse; religious insanity; and false imprisonment....
The widow of a parking attendant who died of a heart attack while working outside Toyota Park in Bridgeview sued the stadium and its owners today, saying it took almost half an hour for an ambulance to arrive. Lawrence Bus, a 53-year-old employee of Standard Parking who lived in Plainfield, collapsed while working in the parking lot outside of the B96 Summer Bash concert in June 2007, said John Winters,...
Grieve and I were on the same wavelength recently when we both thought of doing a screenshot guide to Kubrick's Killer's Kiss , which played this weekend at IFC. As he showed, Killer's Kiss is one of the best cinematic sources of imagery from 1950s New York City. It's packed with scenes of Times Square, and one of my favorite recurring scenes in the film takes place at a taxi dance hall. all images...
Three people were seriously wounded after being shot on Chicago's West Side Tuesday night, authorities said. Ambulances responded to a report of a shooting around 10:15 p.m. in the 5000 block of West Thomas Street, said Fire Department spokesman Cmdr. Will Knight. Two men were taken from the scene in serious-to-critical condition to Mt. Sinai Hospital, and a third man, also in serious-to-critical...
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