The Strange Disappearance of Jim Thompson: And Stories of Other Expats in Sutheast Asia
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Again, not addressing the constitutional rights to be bestowed upon war criminals by bringing them to America, former Governor Jim Thompson, member of the 9-11 Commission, lines up in favors of Gitmo-in-Illinois in an op-ed published in tomorrow's Chicago Tribune...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Yesterday the Illinois Supreme Court heard arguments regarding former governor George Ryan's pension as Ryan attempts to reclaim part of his pension. Representing Ryan was another former governor, Jim Thompson. Thompson argued that though Ryan was stripped of his entire pension - a mind-boggling $197,037 per year, according to the Sun-Times - by the General Assembly upon his conviction in 2006, Ryan...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
THE Mentalist ’s Simon Baker is to play an enigmatic surfer in a new film called Breath . Based on the 2008 book by acclaimed Australian novelist Tim Winton, the film will explore the relationship that develops between two 16-year-old boys and the enigmatic surf instructor (Baker) and his mysterious wife who tutor them. Spurred on by their tutor, the boys take ever-increasing risks both on and...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Supreme Court justices heard arguments today on why ex-governor George Ryan should receive a partial state pension of $60,000. The state General Assembly Retirement System stripped Ryan of the $197,037 pension he was drawing annually up until his 2006 conviction of racketeering, conspiracy, mail fraud, making false statements to investigators and tax fraud as governor...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
• Nathan Cain of Independent Crime has posted the trailer for the upcoming film The Killer Inside Me , based on Jim Thompson’s 1952 novel of the same name . It’s a depressing, violent taste of the finished picture (no such bad things should ever happen to the lovely Jessica Alba), but Cain notes that it all comes “straight from the novel”--no need to “tart up Thompson’s...
The Phoenix Real Estate Guy (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
For my Dad, Chaplain (COL) Jim Thompson, USA, Ret. and all who have ever served. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. – Author unknown In war, there are no [...]
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I think my favorite movie from a Jim Thompson book is Coup du Torchon, by Tavernier. Coup du Torchon is great -- it really French-i-fies the story without losing a drop of its essence, and Philippe Noiret is brilliant -- but don't count out The Grifters. It may be the
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Nom de Plume -- watch what you ask for. Spielberg's Artificial Intelligence: AI was based on a script Kubrick never filmed. I think my favorite movie from a Jim Thompson book is Coup du Torchon, by Tavernier. It's based on Thompston's novel Pop. 1280 but is set in a French colony i Africa and stars Philippe Noiret in a great performance. http://www.imdb.com/t
Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Take a peek at the feature adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel which features Casey Affleck , Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson among others.
Get the Big Picture (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I read The Killer Inside Me about 25 years ago, and in general I'm an admirer of the work of pulp novelist Jim Thompson . His most recognized works are probably that title, The Killing (later turned into an early Kubrick film), The Getaway , and The Grifters , released as a film over 10 years after his death. I heard about him while growing up in Oklahoma, because that's where he was from. The Killer...
U.S. Politics and the World (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
corn1971 posted a reply: The IL Republican party went through what the national party is now going through. For decades the Governor's office was held by Republicans, moderates like Jim Thompson, Jim Edgar & George Ryan. George Ryan had been the Sec of State before becoming Gov. A license for bribes scandal would hound him, ultimately leading him not to run for re-election and a prison conviction....
Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A promotional trailer has arrived for The Killer Inside Me, the adaptation of the Jim Thompson novel which sees a small town sheriff who slowly allows the psychopathic killer inside him, a part he's been hiding for a very long time, out, and watches his life fall apart around him. Directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty, Bill Pullman, Simon...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I've really been looking forward to footage from Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of the Jim Thompson novel The Killer Inside Me. I'm a massive Thompson fan, and adaptations of his novels have about a .500 average. (I'm the guy that doesn't like The Grifters much; I infinitely prefer a movie like Tavernier's Coup de Torchon.) The cast here seems to be on the money -- Casey Affleck as the duplicitous...
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Thanks to The Playlist we have been made aware of a promotional trailer for Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me based on the Jim Thompson novel and starring Casey Affleck, Simon Baker, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Elias Koteas, Bill Pullman and Ned Beatty. Thompson, as many of you may already know co-wrote Stanley Kubrick's killer heist [...]
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Photo by: jrpms U.S. Cellular Field may be getting a makeover sometime soon. The state agency that owns the field said on Friday that it's in the early stages of planning a new development across the street from the ballpark on 35th Street, including new restaurants, stores, and other attractions. The development would replace the parking lots that were built on the site where Comiskey Park used to...
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anonymous (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
Paths of Glory dvd download Paths of Glory dvd download Paths of Glory Synopsis: Adapting Humphrey Cobb's novel to the screen, director Stanley Kubrick and his collaborators Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson set out to make a devastating anti-war statement, and they succeeded above and beyond the call of duty. In the third year of World War I, the erudite but morally bankrupt French general Broulard...
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