News Alec Baldwin Accidentally Shoots & Kills Cinematographer, Wounds Director with Prop Gun
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TZ was an anthology so I can see why they wouldn't have shut down production on the other segments. I think a better question is why/how they thought they could save the Landis/Vic Morrow segment in editing.
Felony charges against Alec Baldwin, ‘Rust’ armorer downgraded:
A spokesperson for Sante Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said Monday that the involuntary manslaughter charges for the both of them will remain. A firearm enhancement charge carries a mandatory five-year prison sentence if convicted. An involuntary manslaughter charge carries a potential sentence of up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 fine.
A spokesperson for Sante Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said Monday that the involuntary manslaughter charges for the both of them will remain. A firearm enhancement charge carries a mandatory five-year prison sentence if convicted. An involuntary manslaughter charge carries a potential sentence of up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 fine.
Landis is a piece of shit who has never accepted responsibility for his culpability in the deaths of Morrow and the children. He definitely should have gone to prison.
but made even creepier because she dies in the end and you basically experience her brain-video-tape of dying and afterlife.
Interesting language in the statement. Without acknowledging that the firearms enhancement wasn't law yet when the shooting occurred, the prosecutor's spokesman cites "billable hours for big-city attorneys"?
It's been a long time, but the way I remember it Louise Fletcher died and recorded it, and Christopher Walken played the tape back to his brain and almost died. But Wood was alive at the end.
If the firearms-enhancement charge wasn't even against the law at the time the shooting occurred, then it is just and proper to drop that charge. The crime here is negligence leading to manslaughter, and that charge remains.
I just looked that up...oy, you're right, Landis was an asshole of the lowest order. Even his directing style was loud, rude and obnoxious. Right up until the crash he was still yelling for the helicopter to go lower! The hell...
Actually, if that scene had been successfully filmed, you know what was supposed to happen? The kids were supposed to time-jump with Morrow's character back to Nazi-occupied France...where they would be taken away and executed.
Also, Vic Morrow's last words reportedly were "I've got to be crazy to do this! I should have asked for a stunt double."
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This was a particularly sickening coda to Landis’ Twilight Zone saga https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-06-26-me-8387-story.html
It's long out of print and hard to find for some mysterious reason, but Stephen Farber and Marc Green's book on the Twilight Zone deaths, Outrageous Conduct, is definitely worth a read (I managed to get it through an inter-library loan). A couple highlights that stuck in my mind were that, since one person on the set (a fireman, I think), also did work supervising children on set, he was sent on a runaround whenever they were filming with the kids (who were hired illegally, and weren't supposed to be on a movie set at all, never mind one with pyrotechnics and helicopter stunts); the closing chapters of the book on the trial, where they note that sexism by the jury against the female prosecutor might've hurt their case in the most sexist ways possible, and an extremely surreal where-were-they-then moment where, immediately after the incident, Steven Spielberg was booked on a trip overseas so reporters couldn't find him and ask him about it by his assistant, a young Kathleen Kennedy.
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Politicians gotta politic.
I suspect Kennedy knows a lot of stuff about a lot of people.
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I don't think it was untoward. Spielberg wouldn't have known much about what was going on with Landis's segment, and nothing he could've said would've helped, either professionally or in human terms, especially if the question was sprung on him right after the crash before anyone understood what had happened. Removing him from the equation was canny and probably the best out of a bunch of bad options if your job is seeing to Steven Spielberg's professional and personal well-being.
It was just very surprising seeing the controversial, can-do-no-right (according to some) modern-day Head of Star Wars suddenly pop up out of nowhere in the story of this most negligent of homicides to do something totally pragmatic in a crisis situation.
He didn’t lick it up off the ground, as they say round my way
I guess. But calling the defense pointing out that a charge has ex post facto issues a "distraction," that just sounds petty.
Wow, what a great expression. I never heard that one before, thanks!
^ Bill was never going to be redeemed. He was always destined to end up on the train to the concentration camp.
And the kids weren't going to be saved, either. Bill tried to save them, but as soon as they ended up in occupied France, their fates were sealed.
And the kids weren't going to be saved, either. Bill tried to save them, but as soon as they ended up in occupied France, their fates were sealed.
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