The father of a Georgia newborn found beaten to death in the woods on Sunday has been charged with murder in her death, People confirms.
On Wednesday, Christopher Michael McNabb, 27, of Covington, Georgia, was charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery and concealing a death, said Capt. Keith Crum of the Newton County Sheriff’s Office tells People.
McNabb is accused of killing his 15-day-old daughter, Caliyah McNabb, before hiding her body in the woods near his family’s mobile home, says Crum.
An autopsy determined that the infant died from blunt force trauma to the head, Newton Coroner Tommy Davis said Tuesday,...
On Wednesday, Christopher Michael McNabb, 27, of Covington, Georgia, was charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery and concealing a death, said Capt. Keith Crum of the Newton County Sheriff’s Office tells People.
McNabb is accused of killing his 15-day-old daughter, Caliyah McNabb, before hiding her body in the woods near his family’s mobile home, says Crum.
An autopsy determined that the infant died from blunt force trauma to the head, Newton Coroner Tommy Davis said Tuesday,...
- 10/12/2017
- by KC Baker
- PEOPLE.com
This week's episode of Scientology and the Aftermath was supposedly prompted by accusations that host and former church member Leah Remini has "incited hate crimes" against the organization. Eager to find out more, she and fellow defector Mike Rinder paid a visit to one of the people who supposedly committed the hate crimes that Remini incited. Here's what she – and we – learned from her visit with the Brandon Reisdorf and his family, as well as three journalists who’ve spent their careers writing about, and allegedly enduring harassment, from the organization.
- 1/11/2017
- Rollingstone.com
David Beckham’s son, Cruz, has released his first single Wednesday, and people immediately started comparing the 11-year-old to Justin Bieber. According to E! Online, Beckham even signed with Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun on Tuesday, before the release of “If Every Day Was Christmas.” Cruz beckham definitely the next Justin bieber … ???? @CruzBeckham @justinbieber pic.twitter.com/OMpCLMQ04p — Justin Bieber Fan (@AlanBiebsFan) December 7, 2016 Cruz Beckham will be the new Justin Bieber, watch the space – i told you so — Tommy Davis (@LuxuriousTD) December 7, 2016 See Video: David Beckham Revealed as People's Sexiest Man Alive on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' All proceeds from his first single.
- 12/7/2016
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
James Packer was hopelessly in love with Mariah Carey, even giving her his name ... just a month before an ill-fated yacht trip in Greece. Packer sent emails to Mariah as late as last month, referring to her as McP -- Mariah Carey Packer -- TMZ has confirmed. In another email a few weeks earlier, Packer wrote, "I'm in love with you and can't wait to get married and be together forever." He continues, "There's a...
- 10/31/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Mariah Carey was ordered out of the house she was sharing with billionaire James Packer, but she's staying put and demanding that he buy her an L.A. mansion as Part of a settlement in what has become a nasty breakup ... so say sources connected to Mariah. Our Mariah sources say she doesn't blame the breakup on James ... she blames it on famed, former Scientology bigwig Tommy Davis ... who worked closely with Tom Cruise until Davis broke from the org.
- 10/31/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
The Film Society of Lincoln Center today announced the lineup for Explorations, a new section featuring bold selections from the vanguard of contemporary cinema, and Main Slate shorts for the 54th New York Film Festival.
Read More: Nyff Reveals Main Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Manchester By the Sea,’ ‘Paterson’ and ‘Personal Shopper’
Explorations is devoted to work from around the world, from filmmakers across the spectrum of experience and artistic sensibility. It kicks off with six features, including Albert Serra’s latest, “The Death of Louis Xiv,” featuring a tour de force performance by French cinema legend Jean-Pierre Léaud; Douglas Gordon’s portrait of avant-garde icon Jonas Mekas, “I Had Nowhere to Go”; João Pedro Rodrigues’s “The Ornithologist”, which won him the Best Director prize at Locarno; as well as Natalia Almada’s “Everything Else”, Gastón Solnicki’s “Kékszakállú,” and Oliver Laxe’s “Mimosas.”
New York Film Festival Director...
Read More: Nyff Reveals Main Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Manchester By the Sea,’ ‘Paterson’ and ‘Personal Shopper’
Explorations is devoted to work from around the world, from filmmakers across the spectrum of experience and artistic sensibility. It kicks off with six features, including Albert Serra’s latest, “The Death of Louis Xiv,” featuring a tour de force performance by French cinema legend Jean-Pierre Léaud; Douglas Gordon’s portrait of avant-garde icon Jonas Mekas, “I Had Nowhere to Go”; João Pedro Rodrigues’s “The Ornithologist”, which won him the Best Director prize at Locarno; as well as Natalia Almada’s “Everything Else”, Gastón Solnicki’s “Kékszakállú,” and Oliver Laxe’s “Mimosas.”
New York Film Festival Director...
- 8/29/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
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- 4/6/2016
- by Kathy Ehrich Dowd, @kathyehrichdowd
- PEOPLE.com
Marjorie Lord actress ca. early 1950s. Actress Marjorie Lord dead at 97: Best remembered for TV series 'Make Room for Daddy' Stage, film, and television actress Marjorie Lord, best remembered as Danny Thomas' second wife in Make Room for Daddy, died Nov. 28, '15, at her home in Beverly Hills. Lord (born Marjorie Wollenberg on July 26, 1918, in San Francisco) was 97. Marjorie Lord movies After moving with her family to New York, Marjorie Lord made her Broadway debut at age 17 in Zoe Akins' Pulitzer Prize-winning adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel The Old Maid (1935). Lord replaced Margaret Anderson in the role of Tina, played by Jane Bryan – as Bette Davis' out-of-wedlock daughter – in Warner Bros.' 1939 movie version directed by Edmund Goulding. Hollywood offers ensued, resulting in film appearances in a string of low-budget movies in the late 1930s and throughout much of the 1940s, initially (and...
- 12/15/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Introducing the Hub City Social Club Podcast Show
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The Hub City Social Club is recorded every week in Elizabethtown, Kentucky and we talk about topics such as movies (especially horror and comic book related ones), comic books, video games, wrestling, and a little bit of everything else. The personalities on the show include Tommy Davis, Dan Laflair, Trish Erickson-Martin, and Horrornews.net’s own Todd ...
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- 9/15/2015
- by Horrornews.net
- Horror News
In November of 1969, the body of 22-year-old Penn State student Betsy Aardsma was discovered in the university's Pattee Library, after she was stabbed by an unseen perpetrator. Today that murder remains unsolved, and some believe that Betsy's spirit still walks the library's book stacks. Image: Patriot News According to the school's news site Onward State, a lit candle was found many years later at the murder site, along with news clippings about the incident, and the words “R.I.P. Betsy Ruth Aardsma, Jul. 11, 1947 – Nov. 28, 1969. P.S. I’m Back” scrawled on the floor. After that discovery, researchers say multiple reports of hauntings and strange phenomena have plagued the university. The murder case is still the subject of intense investigation, much of which is being conducted by private individuals. One of those interested parties, filmmaker Tommy Davis, has completed a dramatic film based on Aardsma's life, but he's not interested...
- 1/29/2014
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Paul Haggis has written an open letter to support actress Leah Remini's decision to leave Scientology. The "King of Queens" actress publicly announced she had left the controversial religion earlier in the same month
You can read the entire letter, as it will appear in The Hollywood Reporter's Aug. 9 issue, here.
Haggis knows a lot about this kind of situation. The man behind films like "Crash" and "Million Dollar Baby" broke publicly with Scientology in 2005 after 35 years of membership. He has since been critical of the church, an attitude shared by the Church of Scientology toward Haggis.
Although the entire letter gives the filmmaker's entire opinion, excerpts make the basics of that opinion clear.
"Leah and I haven't spoken in quite a while. What I knew about Leah is that she was one of two Scientologists who had refused to 'disconnect' from me and certainly...
You can read the entire letter, as it will appear in The Hollywood Reporter's Aug. 9 issue, here.
Haggis knows a lot about this kind of situation. The man behind films like "Crash" and "Million Dollar Baby" broke publicly with Scientology in 2005 after 35 years of membership. He has since been critical of the church, an attitude shared by the Church of Scientology toward Haggis.
Although the entire letter gives the filmmaker's entire opinion, excerpts make the basics of that opinion clear.
"Leah and I haven't spoken in quite a while. What I knew about Leah is that she was one of two Scientologists who had refused to 'disconnect' from me and certainly...
- 8/1/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Before Leah Remini, Paul Haggis was one of the highest-profile celebrities in Hollywood to defect from and outspokenly condemn the Church of Scientology, an organization that he had been part of for 35 years.
The "Million Dollar Baby" director left Scientology in 2009, after a disagreement on the group's stance on Proposition 8, and his insight was the basis of an enormously damaging 2011 profile on Scientology by Lawrence Wright for The New Yorker.
Now Haggis is applauding Remini's decision to speak openly about her resignation from Scientology, and her efforts in extracting herself from the community. (On July 27, Remini confirmed she had left the organization, after allegedly questioning the disappearance of leader David Miscavige's wife, Shelly, who has reportedly not been seen in public since 2007). In an article for The Hollywood Reporter, Haggis calls Remini a "class act and a lovely human being" who "called me as soon as she heard about my [own] letter of resignation.
The "Million Dollar Baby" director left Scientology in 2009, after a disagreement on the group's stance on Proposition 8, and his insight was the basis of an enormously damaging 2011 profile on Scientology by Lawrence Wright for The New Yorker.
Now Haggis is applauding Remini's decision to speak openly about her resignation from Scientology, and her efforts in extracting herself from the community. (On July 27, Remini confirmed she had left the organization, after allegedly questioning the disappearance of leader David Miscavige's wife, Shelly, who has reportedly not been seen in public since 2007). In an article for The Hollywood Reporter, Haggis calls Remini a "class act and a lovely human being" who "called me as soon as she heard about my [own] letter of resignation.
- 7/31/2013
- by Youyoung Lee
- Huffington Post
The Church of Scientology just lost one of its biggest celebrity supporters, according to new reports. "King of Queens" and "Saved By the Bell" alum Leah Remini is said to have left the religion over years of interrogations that began after an incident at Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' wedding.
Tony Ortega writes that Remini wrote a "Knowledge Report" about Scientology leader David Miscavige after he snapped at her at Cruise's wedding. She had simply -- albeit loudly -- asked where his wife Shelly Miscavige was at the Nov. 2006 event. Miscavige has only been publicly seen once in the years since, and many believe she is intentionally being kept away from the public. Miscavige's response was to tell her Remini wasn't of high enough rank to know the answer.
After Remini submitted her report, she reportedly was submitted to "thought modification" and interrogations known as "security checking" and "Truth Rundown,...
Tony Ortega writes that Remini wrote a "Knowledge Report" about Scientology leader David Miscavige after he snapped at her at Cruise's wedding. She had simply -- albeit loudly -- asked where his wife Shelly Miscavige was at the Nov. 2006 event. Miscavige has only been publicly seen once in the years since, and many believe she is intentionally being kept away from the public. Miscavige's response was to tell her Remini wasn't of high enough rank to know the answer.
After Remini submitted her report, she reportedly was submitted to "thought modification" and interrogations known as "security checking" and "Truth Rundown,...
- 7/11/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Katie Holmes is secretly calling Tom Cruise's ex-wife Nicole Kidman for advice and moral support, claims a new report! And this has been happening throughout her entire marriage to Tom! Katie Holmes has been very strong throughout her filing of divorce from Tom Cruise but when she needs a friend to rely on, Us Weekly reports she turns to an unlikely person -- Nicole Kidman. Nicole, 45, has experienced marriage and divorce from Tom, 50, and is one of the only people in the world who can truly understand what Katie, 33, is going through. "They've spoken over the last few weeks. Nicole has been supportive, saying she's been through it too and to hang in there," a source tells the magazine. Apparently, Nicole and Katie have been secretly talking since the beginning of Katie's marriage to Tom! "They spoke when Nicole called the kids," reveals the insider. "She knows what it's like in that freaky house.
- 7/11/2012
- by HL Staff
- HollywoodLife
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? Pearl Jam Twenty Trailer I'll admit it: My interest in Pearl Jam has been waning. Don't get me wrong, I own all their albums, have...
- 7/30/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
Veteran entrepreneur of Silicon Valley shares his funding stories, what he's learned about the entrepreneur/investor relationship over the years, and the best way to pitch to a venture capitalist.
Funding Stories
When I was at E.piphany, my last startup, I was negotiating with a company called Infinity Capital at the time. They really wanted to invest, but it was the beginning of the bubble and I wanted an absurd number. All we had were six slides and I wanted a $10 million post-money valuation. Back then, all you got is a couple of slides. But it was my eighth startup and my partner had been around for a while too. We've had done this before. We had gone back and forth, but this was a new firm and they wanted us.
We're in their conference room. I say, "Why can't you guys do $10 million?" Finally they admitted, "Steve, we're...
Funding Stories
When I was at E.piphany, my last startup, I was negotiating with a company called Infinity Capital at the time. They really wanted to invest, but it was the beginning of the bubble and I wanted an absurd number. All we had were six slides and I wanted a $10 million post-money valuation. Back then, all you got is a couple of slides. But it was my eighth startup and my partner had been around for a while too. We've had done this before. We had gone back and forth, but this was a new firm and they wanted us.
We're in their conference room. I say, "Why can't you guys do $10 million?" Finally they admitted, "Steve, we're...
- 7/14/2011
- by Steve Blank
- Fast Company
Oscar-winning director of Crash has revealed the backlash that followed his explosive departure from Scientology in 2009
The Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Paul Haggis received "troubling" emails after he referred to Scientology as a cult and confirmed he would be leaving the organisation, he has said.
Haggis quit Scientology in October 2009 after three decades following the organisation's refusal to publicly denounce Proposition 8, the controversial legislation that bans gay marriage in California. In an explosive letter of resignation, he claimed he could no longer "be a member of an organisation where gay-bashing is tolerated".
Haggis, whose daughter Katy is gay, told the Hollywood Reporter: "I've been getting a lot of very supportive emails and I've been getting some really troubling ones. Some break my heart and some are just really angry."
The writer and director of Crash said the negative comments were not unexpected following his public condemnation of the organisation, which...
The Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Paul Haggis received "troubling" emails after he referred to Scientology as a cult and confirmed he would be leaving the organisation, he has said.
Haggis quit Scientology in October 2009 after three decades following the organisation's refusal to publicly denounce Proposition 8, the controversial legislation that bans gay marriage in California. In an explosive letter of resignation, he claimed he could no longer "be a member of an organisation where gay-bashing is tolerated".
Haggis, whose daughter Katy is gay, told the Hollywood Reporter: "I've been getting a lot of very supportive emails and I've been getting some really troubling ones. Some break my heart and some are just really angry."
The writer and director of Crash said the negative comments were not unexpected following his public condemnation of the organisation, which...
- 2/24/2011
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
By Roger Friedman
HollywoodNews.com: The New Yorker– venerable and respected–has taken on the Church of Scientology.
Lawrence Wright’s piece, called “The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology,” chronicles the Oscar winning screenwriter and film director’s departure from Scientology after 34 years. It’s something this reporter has written about often, not only Haggis’s exit but that of other Hollywood stars. Wright goes even further: he has actor Josh Brolin describe his brief encounter with Scientology. It scared him. Brolin–smart, respected–has taken a big chance here because Scientology is vindictive. They’ve already called him a liar less than 24 hours since his anecdote was published.
I know Josh Brolin, and he’s no liar. He says he saw John Travolta try to “heal” Marlon Brando using Scientology techniques. “It was f–ing bizarre,” Brolin said.
I told readers of this column last year...
HollywoodNews.com: The New Yorker– venerable and respected–has taken on the Church of Scientology.
Lawrence Wright’s piece, called “The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology,” chronicles the Oscar winning screenwriter and film director’s departure from Scientology after 34 years. It’s something this reporter has written about often, not only Haggis’s exit but that of other Hollywood stars. Wright goes even further: he has actor Josh Brolin describe his brief encounter with Scientology. It scared him. Brolin–smart, respected–has taken a big chance here because Scientology is vindictive. They’ve already called him a liar less than 24 hours since his anecdote was published.
I know Josh Brolin, and he’s no liar. He says he saw John Travolta try to “heal” Marlon Brando using Scientology techniques. “It was f–ing bizarre,” Brolin said.
I told readers of this column last year...
- 2/9/2011
- by Roger Friedman
- Hollywoodnews.com
Hard to imagine anyone is surprised to find out that the Church of Scientology took some umbrage with the Lawrence Wright-penned New Yorker piece about Paul Haggis and the church's more untoward practices. (Like disappearing meddling wives, that sort of thing.) Still! Affect your best look of feigned surprise and check out what church spokesman Tommy Davis (Anne Archer's son to you, buddy) had to say about the 25,000 takedown.
- 2/8/2011
- Movieline
Crash director and former Scientologist Paul Haggis has sparked outrage among the church's leaders after revealing the inner workings of the religion to a magazine.
The screenwriter was a member of the Church of Scientology, which counts actors John Travolta and Tom Cruise as followers, for more than 30 years before quitting over its support for Proposition 8, the bill which outlawed same-sex marriage.
He has broken his silence about his time as a member to help The New Yorker journalist Lawrence Wright with a 25,000-word article about the secretive group's practices.
Haggis tells the publication, "There was a feeling of camaraderie that was something I'd never experienced; all these atheists looking for something to believe in, and all these loners looking for a club to join...
"I was in a cult for 34 years. Everyone else could see it. I don't know why I couldn't."
The piece, published on Sunday, suggests leaders control members' lives and track down those who attempt to defect. It also claims there is an ongoing government investigation into allegations of human trafficking.
But the Church's spokesman, Haggis' former pal Tommy Davis, has hit back at the article, criticising Wright for using Scientology to "garner headlines".
Davis says, "The article is little more than a regurgitation of old allegations that have long been disproved. It is disappointing that a magazine with the reputation of The New Yorker chose to reprint these sensationalist claims from disaffected former members hardly worthy of a tabloid.
"As for the claim that the Church is the subject of a federal investigation, the Church has never been advised of any government investigation, a fact The New Yorker knew before it went to print."...
The screenwriter was a member of the Church of Scientology, which counts actors John Travolta and Tom Cruise as followers, for more than 30 years before quitting over its support for Proposition 8, the bill which outlawed same-sex marriage.
He has broken his silence about his time as a member to help The New Yorker journalist Lawrence Wright with a 25,000-word article about the secretive group's practices.
Haggis tells the publication, "There was a feeling of camaraderie that was something I'd never experienced; all these atheists looking for something to believe in, and all these loners looking for a club to join...
"I was in a cult for 34 years. Everyone else could see it. I don't know why I couldn't."
The piece, published on Sunday, suggests leaders control members' lives and track down those who attempt to defect. It also claims there is an ongoing government investigation into allegations of human trafficking.
But the Church's spokesman, Haggis' former pal Tommy Davis, has hit back at the article, criticising Wright for using Scientology to "garner headlines".
Davis says, "The article is little more than a regurgitation of old allegations that have long been disproved. It is disappointing that a magazine with the reputation of The New Yorker chose to reprint these sensationalist claims from disaffected former members hardly worthy of a tabloid.
"As for the claim that the Church is the subject of a federal investigation, the Church has never been advised of any government investigation, a fact The New Yorker knew before it went to print."...
- 2/8/2011
- WENN
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