I am including a portion of the article written in the early 2000’s with a link to finish the entire article.
15 Years Later, Murder-Suicide Fades From View (Fifth Monday)
By Gwin Moritz, Arkansas Business
After being caught embezzling from Stephens Inc., futures trader John Markle killed his family and himself in November 1987. (Photo courtesy KATV-TV, Channel 7) A violent thunderstorm and a creepy old house, a famous mother who had literally portrayed the devil, a methodical killer wearing a Halloween mask: Despite dramatic elements that would tax a B-movie screenwriter, one of the strangest business-related crimes in recent history has very nearly faded from view. The case of Ronald Gene Simmons, who shocked the nation only six weeks later by slaughtering 14 members of his family and two former co-workers in Pope County, is detailed in two books and innumerable articles available on the Internet. Two books also were written about the murder of Little Rock socialite Alice McArthur five years earlier.
The murders of three West Memphis boys in 1993 inspired two critically acclaimed documentaries and celebrity support for the three youths convicted of the killings. But as the 15th anniversary of the deaths of John, Christina, Amy and Suzanne Markle nears, the only lingering attention comes from a handful of conspiracy theorists who insinuate — but never quite allege — that Bill Clinton or Jack and Witt Stephens may have been involved in the annihilation of the prosperous Little Rock family. (See story here.)
Weeks of investigation confirmed what seemed obvious as soon as the crime was discovered. John Markle left a short suicide note in which he acknowledged killing his wife and two young daughters. He dated and timed the note and called his attorney barely a quarter-hour before his body was found, answering the question of when. Three handguns containing 14 spent shells explained how.
It would take a few more days for the Little Rock Police Department to determine that the discovery of his risky embezzlement scheme had motivated Markle, a 45-year-old futures trader for Stephens Inc., to destroy his family and himself. It would be four years before all the subsequent litigation was resolved.
Fifteen years later, the Stephens organization declines to add any information to the public record on the Markle case, except to say that more sophisticated controls are now in place that would prevent a similar scam.
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... keep reading on reddit ➡It is incredibly fitting that Nekromantik should open with crude - almost childish - scribbles. It warns of forthcoming content that viewers may find offensive, and when the very first shot of the film is a close-up of a woman pulling down her pants to urinate on some grass, you are instantly inclined to take heed. Nekromantik doesn’t just double down on the crude content from there, nor does it triple down; At the very least Nekromantik sixty-nines down. The first feature film from German director Jörg Buttgereit, it remains the most infamous of his many disturbed cult classics.
Video Essay version with footage from the film: https://youtu.be/9cUkKLwxzDE
When reduced to a logline summary, Nekromantik is one of my favourites just for sounding so absurd and darkly amusing. The imdb description does a decent job so I’ll just repeat that: “A street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him.” That ridiculously grim premise and the sick punchline that punctuates that summary essentially gives you the gist of Nekromantik.
Needless to say, this is a purposefully shocking piece of European horror. Scroll through any forums, reviews and comment sections on this film and you’ll see it is the cinematic equivalent of Marmite; some really enjoy the taste of the taboo while others are left gagging under the table. Most discussion on this movie invariably returns to the sex scene. Can’t imagine why. I mean, is it not normal for your love scenes to begin with dragging a decomposing corpse to bed, sticking a pipe in its crotch, attaching a condom to the pipe, before initiating a lengthy and very gross threesome? Riding cowgirl on this boney boner is one thing, but I personally draw the line at him repeatedly sucking at and around the eyeball, which was a real pig’s eye taken from a slaughterhouse no less. You don’t see that every day. Thank fucking Christ you don’t see that every day.
Sequences of necrophilia and short bursts of gory violence aside, it should be noted that there is a prolonged shot of real animal suffering in here. A rabbit is grabbed and stuck with a knife, while the camera holds through the whole process, before the man proceeds to skin and prepare it. The footage is used in conjunction with others as an analogy, so has some reason for its inclusion, but I still feel I should give a
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NOTE: I would recommend to watch The Eight Column Affair (YouTube) before you proceed to read this interview.
With Rajkumar Hirani as editor, Shiv Subramaniam as the lead and Nana Patekar in a knife-wielding cameo, this short won the National Award for Best Short Fiction Film.
A conversation director Sriram Raghavan about his diploma film, which explores the idea of news “coming alive” when an athlete featured on the front page of a newspaper falls for a model-pretty tennis player featured on the last page. He has to cross through various newspaper headline-hurdles to get to the girl.
‘The Eight Column Affair’ is one of the best illustrations of the race-against-time concept I’ve seen. Because a newspaper literally “expires” at the end of the day and a new edition takes its place. So our hero’s “race against time” becomes literal. I had no idea Shiv Subramaniam had acted in something so long ago. It was fun to see him as the athlete.
The last semester at FTII, we had to do our diploma films. We had to draw a lot, and it turned out I had to shoot first. I had to think of a story and screenplay in a month. I used to sit at the FTII library, reading. I came upon an interview where Wendy Toye - a dancer, stage and film director - spoke about her ambition of doing a stage musical set in a newspaper. I used to dabble in journalism a bit, and that set me off. The front-page photo and the last-page photo wanting to meet, and what happens in between…
What is that Georges Franju quote in the beginning? “It needs only a little imagination for our most habitual actions to become charged with a disquieting significance…”
I’d seen Franju’s movie Eyes Without a Face and loved it. I had read this quote in an interview . I thought it’s a nice, cool thing to put at the beginning of my film, and it also supported the crazy concept of ours. Those days I was just discovering French cinema and was completely enamoured by the French New Wave and all that.
What exactly were the New Wave influences?
I think it’s a ragtag kind of thing. Truffaut, Chabrol, Rohmer and Godard… We were watching the New Wave films 25 years later, but they were still so fresh and liberating in terms of how they used cinema grammar and told stories that didn’t conform to any set Hollywood pattern. While at the Institute, one was influenced by everything one saw. It was a whole lot of conscious and subconscious stuff. There is one sequence wi
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the first James Bond film with Timothy Dalton. Dalton has said his approach was to go back to the original portrayal of the character by author Ian Fleming. Lots of people have said Dalton's Bond is Daniel Craig 20 years earlier and I can see it. Dalton plays Bond in a less suave, more human, more serious way. Some criticized him for that saying he lacked the charm, confidence, and humor of Connery and even Moore. I say there is still humor from his Bond but it is more deadpan. Living Daylights seems like an attempt a gritty Cold War spy thriller and it is certainly has a rather complex plot but it can be a bit convoluted for its own good. Still it seems to all add up in the end with a great climax. The theme song by A-ha is one of the best Bond themes and the final score John Barry contributed to the series is fantastic. Both should have been nominated for Oscars. Going back to the more serious tone, there is definitely more "grit" to this movie than a lot of the other Bond movies including a scene where an assassin brutally kills two MI6 agents. The blond assassin is easily one of the more memorable Bond henchmen and is one that is more memorable than the actual main villains of the picture. However, there is still an element of camp still in this film including a scene where big breasted woman tries to distract someone while Bond completes a task and Bond and the main Bond girl slide down a cello case like it is a toboggan. It will be up to individual viewer if they manage to properly blend these elements. The Living Daylights I'd say is a fine Bond film that one should seek out if they have overlooked it. Don't be expect a full out action fest though, as said, this is going for a more genuine "Spy" movie vibe. Also Caroline Bliss's Moneypenny is probably the cutest easily
Angel Heart is still one of my all time favorite psychological horror films, I honestly never get tired of rewatching this movie. It had such a great cast of actors, solid performances, very creepy & unsettling moments and it had such an eerie atmosphere & tone throughout the film. The film still gives me chills too, especially the ending. IMHO still the best performance I've ever seen from Mickey Rourke. He's had plenty of great performances over the years but I feel like this performance in this is still his best work. I think that his acting in this film's last few scenes were Oscar worthy tbh, he & Deniro really worked well off of one another IMHO.
I always felt that this was one of Deniro's best roles but I never heard people talk about his performance in this, which is a shame. I feel like sometimes the movie overall gets forgotten about. The twists in the film were great as were the reveals near the end. They definitely caught me offguard but what did you think of the film? Did it scare you or creep you out? What did you think of the ending? Did the twists catch you offguard? And what did you think of the performances in the film particularly from Rourke & Deniro?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Dancing
As a 90's baby, I literally just discovered Dirty Dancing and now I'm addicted to the soundtrack.
Hungry Eyes by Eric Carmen is especially a banger. It has that classic 80's new wave vibe.
Is it safe to say Dirty Dancing has (one of) the best soundtracks ever?
Saw that a young Stephen Dorff is in this and figured I would check the movie out since me and the lady had been looking for something to watch. Didn’t expect much considering the PG-13 rating, but this one had some surprisingly gory scenes. The stop-motion creatures were done really well and the practical effects were great. Ended up enjoying this from beginning to end and was surprised I hadn’t heard about this movie earlier. Definitely check it out.
So I've been looking into the prior filmography of The OA cast, because it's obvious at this point that many of them either play or associate with various characters in similar roles to ones they've played in the past.
This line from the Wikipedia article immediately jumped out at me. Alice played the role of Tully Sorenson.
"Henry is tracked down by Tully Sorenson, a wealthy female book publisher, who has been impressed with his writing and is interested in publishing some of his work. She finds him through the detective she has hired. Knowing Henry is destitute, Tully pays him an "advance" of $500.
According to Fola's description of the game in Part 2, Level 2 is $500.
I hope more people find and watch this 80's movie, it's a great psychological slasher flick that I think is kind of overlooked.
The Stepfather, an identity-assuming serial killer, marries a widow with a teenage daughter named Stephanie, having killed his previous family and changed his identity. He seems like a great guy on the surface, but Stephanie becomes suspicious about him.
Interestingly, Scott Tobias interpreted the film as a critique of Reaganism.
It's a solid cast. Jill Schoelen, who played Stephanie, was a 'scream queen' who also appeared in When a Stranger Calls Back, Wes Craven’s Chiller, and Curse 2: The Bite.
The movie was included in Bravo's 'The 100 Scariest Movie Moments'.
I highly recommend it.
Hi everyone, I’m a big fan of Filipino cinema and Tagalog dubbing, and I really want to see the full James Bond movie the living daylights with Tagalog dubbing. Here’s a link to the trailer with Tagalog dubbing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76_A9pICpK4 If anyone has the full dub or knows where I might find it please let me know, much appreciated!
It is incredibly fitting that Nekromantik should open with crude - almost childish - scribbles. It warns of forthcoming content that viewers may find offensive, and when the very first shot of the film is a close-up of a woman pulling down her pants to urinate on some grass, you are instantly inclined to take heed. Nekromantik doesn’t just double down on the crude content from there, nor does it triple down; At the very least Nekromantik sixty-nines down. The first feature film from German director Jörg Buttgereit, it remains the most infamous of his many disturbed cult classics.
Video Essay version with footage: https://youtu.be/9cUkKLwxzDE
When reduced to a logline summary, Nekromantik is one of my favourites just for sounding so absurd and darkly amusing. The imdb description does a decent job so I’ll just repeat that: “A street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him.” That ridiculously grim premise and the sick punchline that punctuates that summary essentially gives you the gist of Nekromantik.
Needless to say, this is a purposefully shocking piece of European horror. Scroll through any forums, reviews and comment sections on this film and you’ll see it is the cinematic equivalent of Marmite; some really enjoy the taste of the taboo while others are left gagging under the table. Most discussion on this movie invariably returns to the sex scene. Can’t imagine why. I mean, is it not normal for your love scenes to begin with dragging a decomposing corpse to bed, sticking a pipe in its crotch, attaching a condom to the pipe, before initiating a lengthy and very gross threesome? Riding cowgirl on this boney boner is one thing, but I personally draw the line at him repeatedly sucking at and around the eyeball, which was a real pig’s eye taken from a slaughterhouse no less. You don’t see that every day. Thank fucking Christ you don’t see that every day.
Sequences of necrophilia and short bursts of gory violence aside, it should be noted that there is a prolonged shot of real animal suffering in here. A rabbit is grabbed and stuck with a knife, while the camera holds through the whole process, before the man proceeds to skin and prepare it. The footage is used in conjunction with others as an analogy, so has some reason for its inclusion, but I still feel I should give a heads up.
I
... keep reading on reddit ➡I hope more people find and watch this movie, it's a great psychological slasher flick that I think deserves more popularity.
The Stepfather, an identity-assuming serial killer, marries a widow with a teenage daughter named Stephanie, having killed his previous family and changed his identity. He seems like a great guy on the surface, but Stephanie becomes suspicious about him.
Interestingly, Scott Tobias interpreted the film as a critique of Reaganism. As one reviewer said, The Stepfather touches a sensitive nerve in America where the focus on family in movies and TV has been strong since the invention of the moving picture.
It's a solid cast. Jill Schoelen, who played Stephanie, was an 80's 'scream queen'. She's a very
The movie was included in Bravo's 'The 100 Scariest Movie Moments'.
I highly recommend it.
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