How's this for a true-crime story: Weinstein Television is prepping a star-studded take on the 1993 Waco, Texas, siege and the Branch Davidian standoff. Friday Night Lights grad Taylor Kitsch will star as Branch Davidian leader David Koresh in Waco, while Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire) is set as lead FBI negotiator Gary Noesner. Ludacris is being eyed to portray Branch Davidian member Wayne Martin. { "nid": 922943, "type": "blog", "title": "A&E Sets JonBenet Ramsey Documentary 'The Truth Uncovered'", "path": "http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/a-e-sets-jonbenet-ramsey-922943", "relative-path": "/live-feed/a-e-sets-jonbenet-ramsey-922943" }
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- 8/31/2016
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Artist Wayne Martin Belger specializes in exotic handmade “pinhole cameras,” which expose images onto film without the need of a lens. The idea itself is nothing new, but Belger's actual cameras will give you the willies... especially the ones made out of human skulls. For example... “Third Eye,” shown above, is built onto the 150-year-old skull of a young girl. The hinge mechanism is made from various metals and the "Third Eye" in the forehead is set with gemstones. Light enters through that opening for a set amount of time, exposing film stored inside the skull. Here's a haunting photo taken by the camera: This amazing piece, named “Yama” after the Tibetan god of Death, is built out of a 500-year-old skull which was blessed by a Tibetan Lama prior to Belger's travels to Tibetan refugee cities in India. It's covered in precious metals and jewels, including a ruby (the...
- 9/3/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
Raleigh, N.C. — Doc Watson, the blind Grammy-award winning folk musician whose mountain-rooted sound was embraced by generations and whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world, died Tuesday at a North Carolina hospital, according to a hospital spokeswoman and his manager. He was 89.
Watson died at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, where he was hospitalized recently after falling at his home in Deep Gap, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He underwent abdominal surgery while in the hospital and had been in critical condition for several days.
Arthel "Doc" Watson's mastery of flatpicking helped make the case for the guitar as a lead instrument in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was often considered a backup for the mandolin, fiddle or banjo. His fast playing could intimidate other musicians, even his own grandson, who performed with him.
Richard Watson said in a 2000 interview with The Associated...
Watson died at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, where he was hospitalized recently after falling at his home in Deep Gap, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He underwent abdominal surgery while in the hospital and had been in critical condition for several days.
Arthel "Doc" Watson's mastery of flatpicking helped make the case for the guitar as a lead instrument in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was often considered a backup for the mandolin, fiddle or banjo. His fast playing could intimidate other musicians, even his own grandson, who performed with him.
Richard Watson said in a 2000 interview with The Associated...
- 5/30/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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