This post contains spoilers for the first episode of "The Twilight Zone."
The first episode of Rod Serling's anthology series "The Twilight Zone" aired on October 2, 1959. The episode was called "Where Is Everybody?," and it starred Earl Holliman as a man with no memories, walking down a dirt road. He arrives in a small town. No one is there. He cries out for anyone, but no one answers. He tries the public telephone, but there is no operator. He sees a woman in a car, but she turns out to be a mere mannequin. He helps himself to some diner food, which is still fresh. Machines seem to operate on their own, as when our hero goes to a movie theater and the picture starts automatically. What is happening? Is everyone hiding? Where is everybody? The solitude slowly begins to drive him into a panic.
The twist ending: the...
The first episode of Rod Serling's anthology series "The Twilight Zone" aired on October 2, 1959. The episode was called "Where Is Everybody?," and it starred Earl Holliman as a man with no memories, walking down a dirt road. He arrives in a small town. No one is there. He cries out for anyone, but no one answers. He tries the public telephone, but there is no operator. He sees a woman in a car, but she turns out to be a mere mannequin. He helps himself to some diner food, which is still fresh. Machines seem to operate on their own, as when our hero goes to a movie theater and the picture starts automatically. What is happening? Is everyone hiding? Where is everybody? The solitude slowly begins to drive him into a panic.
The twist ending: the...
- 9/26/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
The pilot episode for Rod Serling's seminal sci-fi TV series "The Twilight Zone" was called "Where Is Everybody?," and it aired on October 2, 1959. It was directed by Robert Stevens and, like most episodes of "The Twilight Zone," was written by Serling himself. This was, according to an article in LitHub, part of his contract; Serling was to write at least 80% of the show's scripts. For the remaining 20%, Serling solicited scripts from just about every writer in Hollywood and reportedly received maybe 14,000 spec scripts in less than a week. That seems high to this author's eye, but given the number of starving writers living in L.A., it could very well be plausible.
It was clear that soliciting scripts from the writers' world at large wasn't practical; there's no way Serling could read all those stories in any kind of timely fashion. Serling put the scripts aside and decided to get more intimate with it.
It was clear that soliciting scripts from the writers' world at large wasn't practical; there's no way Serling could read all those stories in any kind of timely fashion. Serling put the scripts aside and decided to get more intimate with it.
- 8/20/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
The Fall of 2001 was a tense time in America, to say the least. The 9/11 attacks had permanently altered the course of history as grief and paranoia swept the country over. A brewing war in Afghanistan heralded escalating violence overseas, while at home there appeared a strange, spooky bioterrorism campaign that weaponized the bacteria called anthrax. "Amerithrax," as the FBI called it, involved a series of infected letters mailed to prominent media figures and two Senators, leading to the death of five people and long-lasting health problems for more. 30 Rockefeller Plaza, headquarters of NBC, was among the targets, which meant that "Saturday Night Live" and its host during the height of the attacks, Drew Barrymore, could do nothing but crack jokes knowing that anthrax may have been floating through the building.
The anthrax saga started with the hospitalization and subsequent death of Robert Stevens on October 4, 2001, an event that initially seemed like an isolated incident.
The anthrax saga started with the hospitalization and subsequent death of Robert Stevens on October 4, 2001, an event that initially seemed like an isolated incident.
- 3/18/2023
- by Andrew Housman
- Slash Film
A faded photograph and the word ‘me’ finally solved a case that had gone cold before even the Cold War did – but it far from solved a 42-year-old mystery.
A 78-year-old woman with dementia who has been missing since 1975 was tracked down by detectives last month, and helped to verify her identity by showing her a picture of herself from more than four decades ago.
Florence “Flora” Harris was last seen by her husband, Robert Stevens, on the night of August 3, 1975, when he drove her to see a doctor at a hospital in Monticello, New York, then a busy tourist center.
A 78-year-old woman with dementia who has been missing since 1975 was tracked down by detectives last month, and helped to verify her identity by showing her a picture of herself from more than four decades ago.
Florence “Flora” Harris was last seen by her husband, Robert Stevens, on the night of August 3, 1975, when he drove her to see a doctor at a hospital in Monticello, New York, then a busy tourist center.
- 11/16/2017
- by Jason Duaine Hahn
- PEOPLE.com
Something’s Killing Me on Hln tonight delves into the deadly spate of Anthrax attacks which terrorized the nation back in 2001. The ‘Amerithrax’ attacks, which started a week after 9/11, saw patients in Florida, New York, and Washington, D.C., being admitted to hospitals with mysterious and sometimes fatal bacterial infections. It came after letters containing Anthrax spores were mailed to a string of media outlets across the country. The first person to die was Robert Stevens, a British photo editor for the National Enquirer and the Sun supermarket tabloid. Four others were also killed, and 17 more people became infected. As...read more...
- 9/10/2017
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Constance Cummings: Stage and film actress ca. early 1940s. Constance Cummings on stage: From Sacha Guitry to Clifford Odets (See previous post: “Constance Cummings: Flawless 'Blithe Spirit,' Supporter of Political Refugees.”) In the post-World War II years, Constance Cummings' stage reputation continued to grow on the English stage, in plays as diverse as: Stephen Powys (pseudonym for P.G. Wodehouse) and Guy Bolton's English-language adaptation of Sacha Guitry's Don't Listen, Ladies! (1948), with Cummings as one of shop clerk Denholm Elliott's mistresses (the other one was Betty Marsden). “Miss Cummings and Miss Marsden act as fetchingly as they look,” commented The Spectator. Rodney Ackland's Before the Party (1949), delivering “a superb performance of controlled hysteria” according to theater director and Michael Redgrave biographer Alan Strachan, writing for The Independent at the time of Cummings' death. Clifford Odets' Winter Journey / The Country Girl (1952), as...
- 11/10/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Jane Fonda: From ‘Vietnam Traitor’ to AFI Award and Screen Legend status (photo: Jason Bateman and Jane Fonda in ‘This Is Where I Leave You’) (See previous post: “Jane Fonda Movies: Anti-Establishment Heroine.”) Turner Classic Movies will also be showing the 2014 AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony honoring Jane Fonda, the former “Vietnam Traitor” and Barbarella-style sex kitten who has become a living American screen legend (and healthy-living guru). Believe it or not, Fonda, who still looks disarmingly great, will be turning 77 years old next December 21; she’s actually older than her father Henry Fonda was while playing Katharine Hepburn’s ailing husband in Mark Rydell’s On Golden Pond. (Henry Fonda died at age 77 in August 1982.) Jane Fonda movies in 2014 and 2015 Following a 15-year absence (mostly during the time she was married to media mogul Ted Turner), Jane Fonda resumed her film acting career in 2005, playing Jennifer Lopez...
- 8/2/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Miami — More than a decade after tabloid photo editor Robert Stevens became the first victim of the 2001 anthrax attacks, the U.S. government has agreed to pay his widow and family $2.5 million to settle their lawsuit, according to documents released Tuesday.
Stevens, 63, died on Oct. 5, 2001, when a letter containing deadly anthrax spores was opened at the then-headquarters in Boca Raton of American Media Inc., publisher of the National Enquirer, Sun and Globe tabloids. Eventually four other people would die and 17 others would be sickened in similar letter attacks, which the FBI blames on a lone government scientist who committed suicide.
Stevens' widow, Maureen Stevens, sued the government in 2003, claiming its negligence caused her husband's death by failing to adequately safeguard anthrax at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md. The FBI probe concluded that Fort Detrick was the source of the spores used in the attacks in New York,...
Stevens, 63, died on Oct. 5, 2001, when a letter containing deadly anthrax spores was opened at the then-headquarters in Boca Raton of American Media Inc., publisher of the National Enquirer, Sun and Globe tabloids. Eventually four other people would die and 17 others would be sickened in similar letter attacks, which the FBI blames on a lone government scientist who committed suicide.
Stevens' widow, Maureen Stevens, sued the government in 2003, claiming its negligence caused her husband's death by failing to adequately safeguard anthrax at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md. The FBI probe concluded that Fort Detrick was the source of the spores used in the attacks in New York,...
- 11/29/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Diane Cilento, a tall, voluptuous, sometimes blonde/sometimes brunette beauty best remembered for her Academy Award-nominated performance in the 1963 Oscar winner Tom Jones, died in Cairns, in the north of Queensland, according to an online report in the Australian publication The Newsport/Port Douglas Daily. The report says Cilento was 81; as per the IMDb, she had turned 78 yesterday. The cause of death, "after a long battle with illness," hasn't been disclosed. Born to a family of doctors on Oct. 5, 1933, in Brisbane, Queensland, Cilento began her film career in British and British-set Hollywood productions of the early 1950s. By mid-decade, Cilento was already getting cast in leads and semi-leads, in mid-level fare such as Roy Ward Baker's Passage Home (1955), opposite Anthony Steel and Peter Finch, and Alan Bromly's The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp (1956), in the title role as an angel who, in order to fulfill her mission on Earth,...
- 10/7/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Airline Disaster DVD ArtDirected by: John J. Willis III.
Writter: Paul Sinor and Victoria Dadi.
Airline Disaster is one of The Asylum's latest releases and this production company is mostly known for its campier versions of Transformers or the Terminator (Transmorphers and The Terminators). They also have several sexier films. However, The Asylum leaves the camp behind in Airline Disaster and some of the sexiness with Lindsey McKeon only getting minimal scenes. Simply put, this film is an action packed ride through a terrorist ordeal with the camp of previous films replaced by some cheesiness in CGI effects and tense drama.
In short, several Neo-Nazi hijackers take over the Starquest, a state of the art, automatically flown airplane. These terrorists want ten of their friends released from the New Jersey State Penitentiary, or else the plane's captain and brother of the the President of the United States is going to be murdered.
Writter: Paul Sinor and Victoria Dadi.
Airline Disaster is one of The Asylum's latest releases and this production company is mostly known for its campier versions of Transformers or the Terminator (Transmorphers and The Terminators). They also have several sexier films. However, The Asylum leaves the camp behind in Airline Disaster and some of the sexiness with Lindsey McKeon only getting minimal scenes. Simply put, this film is an action packed ride through a terrorist ordeal with the camp of previous films replaced by some cheesiness in CGI effects and tense drama.
In short, several Neo-Nazi hijackers take over the Starquest, a state of the art, automatically flown airplane. These terrorists want ten of their friends released from the New Jersey State Penitentiary, or else the plane's captain and brother of the the President of the United States is going to be murdered.
- 8/28/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Bois de Boulogne. As Paris welcomed an influx of tourists in the 20th century, postcards became popular souvenirs for travelers to take home as proof of their adventures. While most postcards showed straightforward, unimaginative views of the capital city, one photographer in particular—Pierre Yves Petit (who called himself Yvon)—sought to change that by capturing Paris in the early mornings and late nights, when the light was more dramatic, or in unusual weather conditions. More than 75 of Yvon’s most distinctive photographs are gathered in a new book, Yvon’s Paris (W.W. Norton & Company), by Robert Stevens, a photo historian and former picture editor of Time magazine. See a slide show of Yvon’s most iconic images after the jump.
- 5/14/2010
- Vanity Fair
Yesterday, in an 8-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a statute that would have infringed on certain documentary makers’ First Amendment rights. Relating to the depiction of animal cruelty and killing on screen, the statute, by criminalizing such depictions, would have limited filmmakers’ abilities to cover any number of subjects ranging from hunting to our food industry to, ironically, animal abuse itself. The Ifp New York was one of several organizations filing an amicus brief in support of the filmmaker filing the case, a documentarian named Robert Stevens who was sentenced to 37 months in Federal prison for including in his film acquired clips from a Japanese dog fight. Attorney Michael Donaldson, an expert in...
- 4/21/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
What would you do if you had the power to see what would happen in a entire relationship just from the first kiss? I mean, apart from stocking up on industrial strength lip balm and hoping random handsome men don't mind you probing for their marital prospects? Isla Fisher is set to find out in a new movie, Kiss & Tell. A note from Production Weekly puts the Confessions of a Shopaholic star right in the middle of the high concept romantic film. Sheldon Turner, the guy who is getting all kinds of awards attention for his Up In The Air adaptation, is reported by Variety to be writing the script based on the original idea by Dax Shelby and Robert Stevens.
- 2/23/2010
- cinemablend.com
Isla Fisher is attached to star in the high concept romantic comedy "Kiss & Tell" for Universal Pictures says Variety.
The story follows a woman learns she has the ability to kiss a man and instantly see how a long-term relationship with him will play out.
Dax Shelby and Robert Stevens penned the script while Jennifer Klein and Sheldon Turner will produce.
The story follows a woman learns she has the ability to kiss a man and instantly see how a long-term relationship with him will play out.
Dax Shelby and Robert Stevens penned the script while Jennifer Klein and Sheldon Turner will produce.
- 2/23/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Isla Fischer is attached to star in Universal Pictures' high concept romantic comedy Kiss & Tell , written by Dax Shelby and Robert Stevens. Sheldon Turner is producing the film, about a woman who discovers she has the power to see exactly how a long-term relationship will unfold with a man after kissing him. Turner, who recently adapted the video game "inFAMOUS" for Sony, will produce with Jennifer Klein.
- 2/23/2010
- Comingsoon.net
Wills is Open to Die Hard 5 and Unbreakable 2: In a pair of interview quotes Bruce Willis talks about the possibility of Unbreakable 2 and seems quite confident there will be a Die Hard 5.
As for Unbreakable 2 he says, "I talked to [M. Night Shyamalan] over the holidays, and he is still thinking about doing the fight movie between me and Sam [Jackson] that we were gonna do [with the first movie, but] we chose to do the origin." Willis says he's up for it if Jackson is.
The Die Hard 5 info sounds more probable (video to the right) with Willis saying explicitly, "I think we're going to do a Die Hard 5 next year." As the Die Hard story has expanded over the years, going from a skyscraper, to an airport, to New York City and finally to the whole of the United States in Live Free or Die Hard, Willis says the fifth one would go even further saying "it's got to go worldwide.
As for Unbreakable 2 he says, "I talked to [M. Night Shyamalan] over the holidays, and he is still thinking about doing the fight movie between me and Sam [Jackson] that we were gonna do [with the first movie, but] we chose to do the origin." Willis says he's up for it if Jackson is.
The Die Hard 5 info sounds more probable (video to the right) with Willis saying explicitly, "I think we're going to do a Die Hard 5 next year." As the Die Hard story has expanded over the years, going from a skyscraper, to an airport, to New York City and finally to the whole of the United States in Live Free or Die Hard, Willis says the fifth one would go even further saying "it's got to go worldwide.
- 2/23/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The very lovely Isla Fisher (Confessions Of A Shopaholic, Definitely Maybe) is going to star in a romantic comedy for Universal Pictures entitled Kiss And Tell.
Based on a pitch by Dax Shelby and Robert Stevens, who have no noteworthy credits to their name right now but have several projects in development, the film follows a woman who discovers she has the ability to see the exact length of a long-term relationship, and how it will unfold, when she kisses a man.
No director is attached yet, but Up In The Air co-writer Sheldon Turner will produce the film so that gives it some street cred. Shelby and Stevens' upcoming projects include Man Camp and Paths Of Glory at Sony, and Two Minutes To Midnight at Fox.
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Based on a pitch by Dax Shelby and Robert Stevens, who have no noteworthy credits to their name right now but have several projects in development, the film follows a woman who discovers she has the ability to see the exact length of a long-term relationship, and how it will unfold, when she kisses a man.
No director is attached yet, but Up In The Air co-writer Sheldon Turner will produce the film so that gives it some street cred. Shelby and Stevens' upcoming projects include Man Camp and Paths Of Glory at Sony, and Two Minutes To Midnight at Fox.
Georgine Waller
>> Real the whole article | on Screenrush - Tuesday 23 February 2010...
- 2/23/2010
- Screenrush
Confessions of a Shopaholic star Isla Fisher is set to star in a high concept romantic comedy titled Kiss and Tell for Universal Pictures. Based on a pitch by Dax Shelby and Robert Stevens, the story follows a woman who discovers she has the ability to see the exact length of a long-term relationship, and how it will unfold, when she kisses a man. Sounds like a marketable high concept premise. Up in the Air co-writer Sheldon Turner will produce the film. Shelby and Stevens don't have any noteworthy credits on their resume, but they have a bunch of projects in development, including Man Camp and Paths of Glory at Sony, and Two Minutes to Midnight at 20th Century Fox. source: variety and prodweekly...
- 2/23/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Isla Fisher, who is currently working on Burke And Hare with the likes of Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis, is attached to star in high concept comedy Kiss & Tell.Universal is backing the film, which will follow a woman who finds out she has the power to see into the future of any relationship with a man after just one kiss.The pitch came from writers Dax Shelby and Robert Stevens, who have a torrent of one-line idea spec scripts in various stages of development all over Hollywood, including Man Camp at Sony and Two Minutes To Midnight at Fox.While Variety’s report doesn’t mention a star, Production weekly broke the news of Fisher’s involvement. But the trade mag does mention on name beyond the writers – Up In The Air scribe Sheldon Turner, who Universal has brought on board to oversee the thing. And given his Oscar-nominated success with Air,...
- 2/23/2010
- EmpireOnline
Some like it dastardly, including producer Grant Turck who has optioned the rights to the satirical guidebook for men, How to Succeed With Women Without Really Trying: The Dastard's Guide to the Birds and Bees. Dax Shelby and Robert Stevens are in talks to pen the script and producer/literary manager, Eva Lontscharitsch, is partnering with Turck through his production outfit.
The book that sounds like it was written by the Mad Men team is actually written by the late author Shepherd Mead (he was an advertising consultant for a spell) whose work includes a host of other satirical guides like the Broadway/film adapted, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. How to Succeed With Women, published in 1957, includes chapters like How to Be Irresistible in Short Pants and How to Select the First Wife--poking fun at the lunacy that often colors male and female relationships.
Turck told THR,...
The book that sounds like it was written by the Mad Men team is actually written by the late author Shepherd Mead (he was an advertising consultant for a spell) whose work includes a host of other satirical guides like the Broadway/film adapted, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. How to Succeed With Women, published in 1957, includes chapters like How to Be Irresistible in Short Pants and How to Select the First Wife--poking fun at the lunacy that often colors male and female relationships.
Turck told THR,...
- 2/20/2010
- by Alison Nastasi
- Cinematical
A book called How to Succeed With Women Without Really Trying: The Dastard's Guide to the Birds and Bees sounds like something that would have been published this decade, a novelty book like The Hipster Handbook or The Zombie Survival Guide that's sold at Urban Outfitters and given as gifts between people who you don't want to hang out with. But as it turns out, How to Succeed With Women was published in 1957, as a satirical take on 1950s dating rules as well as the 1952 book How to Succeed in Business WIthout Really Trying. And regardless of how dated the movie might be at this point, now it's becoming a movie. THR reports that producer Grant Turck has optioned the book's rights, with screenwriters Dax Shelby and Robert Stevens working on the adaptation. Turck told THR, "In terms of tone, we're developing the film to have the feel of a...
- 2/19/2010
- cinemablend.com
Producer Grant Turck has optioned film rights to the late Shepherd Mead's satirical guidebook "How to Succeed With Women Without Really Trying: The Dastard's Guide to the Birds and Bees."
Screenwriters Dax Shelby and Robert Stevens are in talks to write the adaptation. Producer and literary manager Eva Lontscharitsch also will produce through Turck's Grant Turck Prods.
Published in 1957 by Ballantine Books, "Women" apes the structure and tone of Mead's popular 1952 work "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: The Dastard's Guide to Fame and Fortune," which was adapted into a hit Broadway show and a film. The "Women" primer satirizes 1950s male-female relations under the guise of a self-help book, with chapters that include "How to Be Irresistible in Short Pants," "How to Select the First Wife" and "How to Handle Women in Business."
"Mead's manual is a catchy and clever satire full of subversive and...
Screenwriters Dax Shelby and Robert Stevens are in talks to write the adaptation. Producer and literary manager Eva Lontscharitsch also will produce through Turck's Grant Turck Prods.
Published in 1957 by Ballantine Books, "Women" apes the structure and tone of Mead's popular 1952 work "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: The Dastard's Guide to Fame and Fortune," which was adapted into a hit Broadway show and a film. The "Women" primer satirizes 1950s male-female relations under the guise of a self-help book, with chapters that include "How to Be Irresistible in Short Pants," "How to Select the First Wife" and "How to Handle Women in Business."
"Mead's manual is a catchy and clever satire full of subversive and...
- 2/18/2010
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This film takes the time-tested genre of the boxing film and combines it with the hot-button issue of Mexican immigration. The result is a rather touching, albeit lightweight drama. The story is about the different battles immigrants fight to survive, with boxing becoming a metaphor for the need to strike back against the seemingly unbeatable challenges of life.
Hector Villa (Kuno Becker) is one of many Mexicans who have made it to the United States and live a difficult life. He’s a farm worker, called a “picker”, dreaming of a better life. Hector’s late father had been a small-time boxer and Hector carries on the tradition by boxing at local clubs for extra money. He needs the cash because his mother his ill. The local boxing champion is Robert Stevens (Alex Nesic) who Hector would love to fight but, unfortunately, Robert’s cruel, racist father ‘Big Al’ Stevens...
Hector Villa (Kuno Becker) is one of many Mexicans who have made it to the United States and live a difficult life. He’s a farm worker, called a “picker”, dreaming of a better life. Hector’s late father had been a small-time boxer and Hector carries on the tradition by boxing at local clubs for extra money. He needs the cash because his mother his ill. The local boxing champion is Robert Stevens (Alex Nesic) who Hector would love to fight but, unfortunately, Robert’s cruel, racist father ‘Big Al’ Stevens...
- 2/18/2010
- by Rob Young
- JustPressPlay.net
Two very different episodes. The first among the most poignant and profound episodes of all television, a revealing and emotional reverie from Serling's heart; the second a strange, better-left-forgotten bit of Faustian drama that only appears worse on the heels of Serling's magnum opus.
Season 1, Episode 5 - Walking Distance
Originally aired on October 30, 1959
Written by: Rod Serling
Directed by: Robert Stevens
"Martin Sloan, age thirty-six, vice-president in charge of media. Successful in most things but not in the one effort that all men try at some time in their lives—trying to go home again. And also like all men perhaps there'll be an occasion, maybe a summer night sometime, when he'll look up from what he's doing and listen to the distant music of a calliope, and hear the voices and the laughter of the people and the places of his past. And perhaps across his mind there'll flit a little errant wish,...
Season 1, Episode 5 - Walking Distance
Originally aired on October 30, 1959
Written by: Rod Serling
Directed by: Robert Stevens
"Martin Sloan, age thirty-six, vice-president in charge of media. Successful in most things but not in the one effort that all men try at some time in their lives—trying to go home again. And also like all men perhaps there'll be an occasion, maybe a summer night sometime, when he'll look up from what he's doing and listen to the distant music of a calliope, and hear the voices and the laughter of the people and the places of his past. And perhaps across his mind there'll flit a little errant wish,...
- 2/10/2010
- by Phil Ward
- JustPressPlay.net
As the Supreme Court goes back to work this week it once again will determine just how far the First Amendment stretches. But rather than the usual "prayer in school" or "mandatory pledge of allegiance" cases that generally clog the docket, the high court is weighing how far journalists and documentary filmmakers can go when depicting animal cruelty, and what ramifications that has for other graphic visuals, like violence, pornography, or, say, negligence at slaughterhouses. Cast that in the age of endless Web video, pocket digicams, and citizen journalists who instantly post videos to the Web, and the case quickly becomes personal.
The arguments stem from the arrest, conviction, and subsequent appeal by filmmaker Robert Stevens, who received a 37-month prison sentence for including footage of a Japanese dog fight in one of his films. (That's 18 months more than Michael Vick served for actually running a dog-fighting operation on U.
The arguments stem from the arrest, conviction, and subsequent appeal by filmmaker Robert Stevens, who received a 37-month prison sentence for including footage of a Japanese dog fight in one of his films. (That's 18 months more than Michael Vick served for actually running a dog-fighting operation on U.
- 10/7/2009
- by Clay Dillow
- Fast Company
By Michael Janofsky
Documentary filmmakers are keeping a close watch on the Supreme Court.
Arguments in a new First Amendment case are scheduled for Tuesday, and the filmmakers fear that a ruling for the government could make it harder for the Michael Moores of the world to take on controversial subjects.
The case involves Robert Stevens of Pittsville, Va., a dog-fighting expert whose videography includes such titles as "Japan Pit Fights," "Pick a Winna" and what is now his best-known effort, the hour-long, "Catch Dogs and Country Living."
In 2004, he became...
Documentary filmmakers are keeping a close watch on the Supreme Court.
Arguments in a new First Amendment case are scheduled for Tuesday, and the filmmakers fear that a ruling for the government could make it harder for the Michael Moores of the world to take on controversial subjects.
The case involves Robert Stevens of Pittsville, Va., a dog-fighting expert whose videography includes such titles as "Japan Pit Fights," "Pick a Winna" and what is now his best-known effort, the hour-long, "Catch Dogs and Country Living."
In 2004, he became...
- 10/5/2009
- by Glenn Abel
- The Wrap
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