Serpico

9. April 2011 | 18:01

‘Serpico’ director Sidney Lumet dies

Sidney Lumet, director of classic films including Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, and Network, has died at 86, the New York Times is reporting. (News Source: CBC.ca - 15:41:12)

Sidney Lumet, Director of American Classics, Dies at 86

Mr. Lumet, who preferred the streets of New York to the back lots of Hollywood, directed “12 Angry Men,” “Serpico,” “Dog Day Afternoon,” “The Verdict,” “Network,” among others. (News Source: International Herald Tribune - 15:20:06)

Woman convicted of looting dead friend’s house

NEW CITY, N.Y. — A woman has been convicted of looting the house of an acquaintance on the day after he died. (News Source: The Arizona Republic - 17:59:33)

Sidney Lumet Dead: Director Passes at 86

Legendary director Sidney Lumet has died at the age of 86. Lumet, who began his career directing theater and then television, helmed countless big screen classics. (News Source: The Huffington Post - 15:45:29)

Eight modern-day whistleblowers (part II)

A former senior civil servant at the Ministry of Defence, Clive Ponting leaked information about the sinking of Argentine warship General Belgrano in 1984. The classified documents leaked by Ponting revealed that, contrary to official accounts of the incident, the ship was outside of an exclusion zone and was moving away from a Royal Navy taskforce when it was sunk by submarine HMS Conqueror … (News Source: The New Statesman - 14:24:51)

Man, interrupted

Danny Greene has been somewhat overlooked in mob mythology, but Kill the Irishman screenwriter-turned-director Jonathan Hensleigh (The Saint, The Punisher) had a blueprint from which to work, thanks to author Jonathan Porello’s biography of the independent Cleveland mobster. Irish thespian Ray Stevenson, who eerily resembles late tough-guy actor Vic Morrow in both appearance and vocal timbre … (News Source: Las Vegas CityLife - 19:52:30)

OPP charge 7 with ATM fraud at casino

Ontario provincial police say they’ve charged seven men with credit and debit card fraud at the Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls. (News Source: CBC.ca - 15:31:08)

Director Sidney Lumet Dead at 86

Sidney Lumet, a director who preferred the streets of New York to the back lots of Hollywood and whose stories of conscience - “12 Angry Men,” “Serpico,” “Dog Day Afternoon,” “The Verdict,” “Network” - became modern American film classics, died Saturday morning at his home in Manhattan. He was 86. Robert Berkvist reports in the New York Times. (News Source: indieWIRE - 15:50:45)

Accomplice convicted in looting of dead man’s home

NEW CITY - A woman, who along with her boyfriend, broke into a dead man’s home in Congers and looted it, was convicted after a Rockland County Court jury trial of two counts of burglary in the second degree. (News Source: Mid-Hudson News - 09:51:54)

Army Wives Moves On After a Big Loss

The shocking death of soldier Jeremy Sherwood (Richard Bryant), fatally wounded in the line of duty in Afghanistan on the March 27 episode of Army Wives, left not only the show’s characters and fans shaken, but also the close-knit cast and crew. Some were angry, admits executive producer Jeff Melvoin. I explained, ‘It’s good that you feel that way, because that’s what death means.’ (News Source: TV Guide - 11:12:34)

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