Archive for February, 2009

Bernie Whelan had never handled so much cash - huge wads of $100 notes tied with rubber bands and packed into calico bank bags. It was the million-dollar ransom for the life of his beloved wife, Kerry, kidnapped from Parramatta’s Parkroyal Hotel four days earlier.

All-You-Can-Eat Spaghetti Lunch and Dinner: Spaghetti with meat or vegetable sauce, Greek salad, bread, tea and coffee. Greek pastries and frozen foods also available. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. $7.50. Call 877-2501 for carry-out. Holy Mother of God Greek Orthodox Church, 1645 Phillips Road.

Three beautiful women from mystery movies, use one set of men to provide them with money through marriage, and a second set to murder their boring husbands. The queens of Double Indemnity, Body Heat, and the Last Seduction.

Director Zack Snyder needed a superhero’s fortitude to finish the controversial comic-book saga. We’ll find out if that was enough after Friday. On a wintry day here last year, Zack Snyder hunkered down in a dank prison cell, peered between the bars and watched bloodthirsty inmates run riot. All the smoke and screams only made him smile; the fiery cellblock he saw before him looked nearly …

My stormy life aboard the boat that rocked Britain … A DJ looks back on the pirate radio era

Murder? My friend!? He told me that he was going to be “a king or some other damn thing”. Wouldn’t he make a Great Dead King? As you should know, Daniel 7:4 really says that his “body will be made to stand up on two feet like a man” plus Hosea says that he must be silenced!

“Who watches the Watchmen?” Again and again, that question is posed in the seminal comic book. In the 23 years since “Watchmen” was first published, thousands of astute readers have mulled over the catchphrase and its underlying theme, pondering what it means to be a hero in a very complex world that teeters on the brink of destruction. Naturally, there’s more than one answer to that …

LONDON—The house has everything an Agatha Christie fan could want—except a body in the library.

The long-awaited ‘Watchmen’ movie takes loyalty to new limits. And that’s exactly what’s wrong with it.

One of the fun things about record collecting is that it’s a very mobile hobby — at least as long as physically moving a collection is not involved. After more than a century of disc production, they tend to still turn up nearly anywhere. Sometimes the records even do some traveling in an attempt to find a new home, by gathering at a sellers’ convention. Last week I traveled with some friends …