Valentino is a movie archivist at UCLA but his business card reads “film detective.” His job: tracking down prints of old Hollywood movies before they deteriorate and are lost forever.
As “Frames” opens, Valentino has just sunk all of his savings, and then some, into buying the decrepit Oracle Theater in the hope of restoring it [...]
15
May
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15
Feb
A grieving father wishes his daughter had not been so naive online, writes Karen Arnold.
Three days before her murder, Sophie Elliott was using her Facebook website to flirt with a man she had met during a holiday in Australia.
The talented Dunedin economics student died on January 9, stabbed repeatedly by her killer, allegedly her former [...]
10
Feb
The Kuchenbecker family has been flooded with offers to help pay their legal aid bill of up to $19,000 as the Government promises to make the system fairer on victims. View video: Murder victim;s family asked to pay
The Dominion Post revealed on Saturday that the former partner of Karl Kuchenbecker, the man killed during [...]
2
Feb
District Attorney Mitch Morrissey has charged a man with murder in the 2005 death of a disabled woman who was fatally stabbed and beaten.
Gerald Cooper, 47, has been charged with first-degree murder, two counts of felony murder, first-degree burglary and sexual contact with force.
Authorities did not release the name of the murder victim, [...]
28
Jan
A second murder victim;s family has told of being asked to repay legal aid costs - after hiring a lawyer to fight to keep the murderer behind bars.
Wairoa woman Ida Hawkins says she is traumatised by a request to repay costs, after hiring a lawyer for a Parole Board submission.
Mrs Hawkins received a letter from [...]
17
Dec
Horrendous bosses, scheming adulteresses, cranky heroines and women who love not wisely but perhaps too often: This summer’s beach books are full of girls behaving badly. And, of course, there is nothing more fun than reading about the sins, errors and often hilarious miscalculations of others, while one is ensconced in a cozy chaise with [...]
14
Dec
When Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was a child she had a recurring nightmare in
which pleasant occasions %26ndash; family tea-times, parties, picnics %26ndash; were
disrupted by a scary apparition with no hands, a ghastly stare and
formidable powers of disguise. %26ldquo;It might be Mummy or Daddy or Nannie,%26rdquo; she
recalled, %26ldquo;someone you were just talking to. You looked up into [...]
14
Dec
MONTE CARLO, Monaco — Twenty-five years ago come Sept. 14, one of the great modern fairy tales came to an abrupt end when — under circumstances that still seem slightly mysterious — Princess Grace Kelly died in a car crash on a twisty mountain road above this tiny Mediterranean principality.
Over that quarter century, Monaco [...]
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