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Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Hawkins mayor arrested for tampering with government records
UPDATE: Todd Eddington, who runs the Crooked Wood County 'Justice' System Part III page on Facebook, and friend to Mayor Deborah Lynn Rushing, has been arrested for tampering with government records and is being held at the Wood County Jail on a $10,000 bond. According to DPS Sergeant Adam Albritton, Eddignton and Rushing were arrested with the intent to harm government documents. Eddington was previously arrested for allegedly posting the cellphone number of a Hawkins city councilwoman on Facebook. HAWKINS, Texas (KETK)– The Hawkins mayor was booked into the Wood County Jail on Wednesday after tampering with government records, arrest documents show. TIMELINE: What is going on in the City of Hawkins? After only being the Hawkins mayor for a little over a year, starting in February 2024, Deborah Lynn Rushing of Hawkins was arrested and charged with tampering with governmental records on Wednesday. In recent months, this East Texas town with a population of less than 1,300 people, has been rocked by resignations, calls to disband the police department, a lawsuit and now an arrest of the current mayor. VIDEO: Hawkins officials release footage of dispute between resident, police officer Rushing is being held on a $10,000 bond at the Wood County Jail. Rushing is expected to remain in custody until tomorrow morning. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
RTÉ News
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Beyond Conclave: 10 other movies that feature the Vatican
If you've seen Conclave, Edward Berger's excellent political thriller, you'll have some idea of what goes on behind the scenes at the secretive papal conclave. So with all eyes on Rome this week as cardinals meet to elect a successor to Pope Francis from behind the closed doors of the Sistine Chapel, here's a look at five other films set in or around the Vatican... THE GODFATHER PART III (1990) While the first installment of Francis Ford Coppola's magnum opus was set in New York City, and the second largely in Sicily, much of Part III was based in Rome - particularly around the Vatican City, as Michael Corleone becomes involved in nefarious business dealings involving the Vatican Bank. THE DA VINCI CODE (2006) & ANGELS AND DEMONS (2009) Both of Dan Brown's novels were adapted for the big screen in 2006 and 2009, and while both had scenes set within the Vatican - Angels & Demons opens with the death of a pope and preparations for a conclave - the church unsurprisingly denied Ron Howard permission to film there. Instead, other venues around Rome doubled for interior scenes, while Winchester Cathedral was a stand-in for the Vatican in The Da Vinci Code. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III (2006) The world's most famous Scientologist breaking into the seat of the Catholic Church? It happened in M:I3, when Tom Cruise donned a cassock to go undercover in the Vatican - which was really Reggia di Caserta near Naples. However, some exterior shots were filmed in St. Peter's Square. ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) Of course one of the most timeless Rome-set films ever made had to feature the Vatican in some way. St. Peter's Basilica features in the film's opening sequence, while the nearby Castel Sant'Angelo also features during a scene where Audrey Hepburn dances with Gregory Peck before a brawl breaks out. EUROTRIP (2004) Bet you weren't expecting this one. If the Church doesn't allow some of the world's most esteemed filmmakers to shoot within the Vatican City, you can bet they didn't let the makers of this 2004 goofy 'teen sex comedy'. Nevertheless, a sequence is set within the Vatican when main characters Scott and Cooper break into the Pope's private quarters in the midst of a conclave. THE TWO POPES (2019) Well, the clue is in the title: of course the Vatican is going to feature in some way. In Fernando Meirelles's 2019 drama, we witness a fictionalised discussion between Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins) and the then-Cardinal Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce) in the wake of the Vatican leaks scandal. Much of the film is set within the walls of the Vatican, although the actual filming locations were spread across Rome and a full-scale replica of the Sistine Chapel was constructed at Rome's Cinecittà Studios. MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE'S MOST WANTED (2012) It's not just live action movies that feature the Eternal City; in Madagascar 3, a group of intrepid animals find themselves pursued across Europe as they attempt to get back to New York City. One scene features King Julien, the ring-tailed lemur, kissing the Pope's ring in the Vatican. LA DOLCE VITA (1960) Fellini's best film? La Dolce Vita is certainly one of the iconic Italian director's most celebrated works. Set in Rome, one sequence heavily features the Vatican as jaded journalist Marcello pursues a woman up the 551 steps of St. Peter's Dome, which overlooks the magnificent square. As with The Two Popes, a replica of the dome was built at Cinecittà Studios. SPECTRE (2015) It only took fifty years for film's most famous spy to land in Rome. much of Spectre was shot in the Italian capital, while a thrilling car chase through its streets passes up the cobbled Via della Conciliazione, with St. Peter's Basilica looming majestically in the background.
Telegraph
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Marching Powder: Danny Dyer's lairy geezer comedy is tryhard nostalgia bait
The very moment it became respectable to like Danny Dyer again – after his calming stint on EastEnders, and genuinely endearing performance in Rivals – he's back to some of his vicious old tricks. Marching Powder, to stretch a comparison, is Danny Dyer's The Godfather, Part III. How? Because of a much-quoted Al Pacino line: just when we thought he was out, they've pulled him back in. By 'they', we mean this film's writer-director, Nick Love, and by 'in', we mean into head-butting, coke-snorting and unprintable insults. Love is the man who put Dyer on the map 20-odd years ago, with a quartet of lairy Brit-flicks, ranging from the cheap and chirpy (2001's Goodbye Charlie Bright) to the equally cheap and grimly reactionary (2007's vigilante thriller Outlaw, which I remember with shudders). In between were The Football Factory (2004) and The Business (2005), which do have their fans. For non-fans, no memory of the above is needed to get a handle on Marching Powder. There's also absolutely zero need to see it. It catches us up with a middle-aged football hooligan going to flab, calls him Jack, and casts guess who. In an opening spiel which sets the bar high for aggressive trash-talking, he aptly describes himself as a 'dickie-sniffing [c-word]' – rough translation, a boorish gentleman who nasally ingests a huge quantity of cocaine. This habit has eroded his generally baffling marriage to long-suffering Dani (Stephanie Leonidas), while energising him and his tragic friends for bouts of slo-mo gang violence which regularly land them or their opponents in hospital, jail or both. One swaggering brawl plays out to a certain synth version of Beethoven's 9th, suggesting that Love's fanboy devotion to A Clockwork Orange might override having fully understood it. But who knows? Jack makes some effort to reform his ways. He gets off the gak (one of many popular synonyms for cocaine) and tries to look after his wild child brother-in-law Kenny Boy (Calum McNab), who has just been released from a mental hospital, and likes to rob drug dealers at knife-point. Marching Powder is hilariously uncommitted, though, to the idea of actually turning a new leaf. There's always more aggro around the corner, and someone thrusting another small white packet into Jack's hand. The film itself has a few semi-redeeming features; it's no Outlaw, thankfully. Much as it aims to shock by reviving taboo language and jokes about sitting on Gary Glitter's lap, it's more toothless than dangerous. Any niche appeal the experience has is summed up by the sight of a semi-naked Dyer slapping his beer gut and scarfing an entire bag of Wotsits, then realising one has lodged itself in his chest hair, and eating it. In the circumstances, Stephanie Leonidas – once a teen heroine in Neil Gaiman's MirrorMask (2005) – does ferociously well in it, too. She may be fathoms out of Dyer's league, but almost gets you to buy into the premise that this toxic marriage is worth saving. Nudging this try-hard nostalgia bait out of one-star territory is a truly remarkable feat, but the credit is all hers.
