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"Whisperers" are serial killers with a special talent: they kill through other people, awakening in them the archaic and apparently soothing desire to kill. We are all potential murderers.
The Doors might have been the first musical discovery of my youth; after glomming onto my big sister's Beatles, Stones, and yes, Monkees records, I bought all I could by The Doors. My choice might not have been a healthy omen.
Spellbinding, chilling, Martha Marcy May Marlenemarks a triumphant first film for writer/director Sean Durkin.
Charles Manson is now a wizened 76 year-old man, short enough (at 5' 2") to blend in with a junior high school gym class, and deluded enough to believe that carving a swastika on his forehead would impress the parole board.
The tour included the drug overdose sites of Janis Joplin, John Belushi, Michael Jackson and River Phoenix.
How many of us are old enough to remember just how scary Charles Manson was, back in the day? Of course he and his minions only did away with half a dozen victims--not 10 percent of the people that die in car wrecks every day.
The other night, to an intimate crowd at the Echoplex in Los Angeles, Henry Rollins played some extremely rare and incredibly amazing tracks. For three hours. With anecdotes and stories.
I was recently in Montreal at Fairmont the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, where John and Yoko bedded down.
Charles Manson, the psychopathic killer responsible for the seven murders at this Hollywood Hills home, blamed the Beatles' White Album for the series of killings his "Family" committed.
As with most films, often the backstory and subsequent events surrounding the filming of Rosemary's Baby were equally as interesting as the script itself.
One would remain an enigma whose legend mystified millions, while the other became a high profile murderer who horrified millions more.
Is there really any debate here? Are there really two sides to this story? He raped a child, for Pete's sake.
Across the pages of leading fashion magazines mindless stars with thin careers are being showcased wearing Future Heretics t-shirts glamorizing guns.
I asked readers to imagine sitting on the California parole board to decide whether to grant convicted murderer Susan Atkins "compassionate release" based on her terminally ill condition.
Isn't it up to God to forgive the truly horrible, like members of the Manson Family? Should we forgive all mass-murderers? Must we go that far?
Vick has paid his debt to society. Yes, he practiced killing and torture and violated the code of conduct he was sworn to uphold. That doesn't make him a monster. That makes him Dick Cheney.
