Gabe Watson, the accused and so-called Honeymoon Killer, who spent 18 months in an Australian jail for manslaughter, was acquitted today in an American court. Watson has been cleared in the 2003 death of wife Tina, who died on their honeymoon , suspiciously, and not even two weeks after the couple got married. Prosecutors in Birmingham, Ala., alleged that Watson, 34, shut off his 26-year-old wife’s oxygen supply while scuba diving in Australia to collect insurance money. But, when the prosecution rested after two weeks, the judge granted a defense’s motion for an acquittal on the grounds the prosecution failed to prove its case. “The evidence is sorely lacking that it was an intentional act,” Judge Tommy Nail told the courtroom, according to The Birmingham News . “The only way to convict him of intentional murder is to speculate. Nobody knows exactly what happened in the water. I’m sure we’ll never know.” Watson’s mother collapsed in tears outside court. Watson was being tried in Alabama because that’s where he had been married and where the alleged murder plan had allegedly been hatched. He stunned members of Tina’s family when he pleaded guilty in Australia in 2009 to a lesser charge of manslaughter. Australian authorities agreed to release him to the United States to face charges here after American authorities waived seeking the death penalty. In 2008, while still facing murder charges in Australia, Watson married Kim Lewis, with whom he had gone to high school.
Gabe Watson, the accused and so-called Honeymoon Killer, who spent 18 months in an Australian jail for manslaughter, was acquitted today in an American court. Watson has been cleared in the 2003 death of wife Tina, who died on their honeymoon , suspiciously, and not even two weeks after the couple got married. Prosecutors in Birmingham, Ala., alleged that Watson, 34, shut off his 26-year-old wife’s oxygen supply while scuba diving in Australia to collect insurance money. But, when the prosecution rested after two weeks, the judge granted a defense’s motion for an acquittal on the grounds the prosecution failed to prove its case. “The evidence is sorely lacking that it was an intentional act,” Judge Tommy Nail told the courtroom, according to The Birmingham News . “The only way to convict him of intentional murder is to speculate. Nobody knows exactly what happened in the water. I’m sure we’ll never know.” Watson’s mother collapsed in tears outside court. Watson was being tried in Alabama because that’s where he had been married and where the alleged murder plan had allegedly been hatched. He stunned members of Tina’s family when he pleaded guilty in Australia in 2009 to a lesser charge of manslaughter. Australian authorities agreed to release him to the United States to face charges here after American authorities waived seeking the death penalty. In 2008, while still facing murder charges in Australia, Watson married Kim Lewis, with whom he had gone to high school.
Elizabeth Smart is a married woman. “To be in one of her favorite places with her family made for a dream wedding. It’s been an absolutely beautiful day,” her spokesman, Chris Thomas, said of her wedding to Matthew Gilmour. “She is positively radiant. And Matthew couldn’t be happier.” Congratulations to the newlyweds! Smart, 24, exchanged vows with Gilmour, 22, in a private ceremony on Saturday afternoon in Hawaii. The couple had been dating for about one year. The happy couple will go on their honeymoon at an undisclosed location before returning to Salt Lake City, Utah, to begin their married life together. Smart, who was kidnapped
If you’ve grown tired of the gimmickry and diminishing quality of “found footage” horror, Sundance’s Midnight program just delivered the cure: V/H/S , an anthology film comprised of shorts by six up-and-coming horror/indie filmmakers, each working within the parameter that their story be told via found media. The Devil Inside this ain’t; V/H/S is fresh and pulse-quickening to the end, one of the best discoveries of this year’s fest. Conceived by producer Brad Miska, V/H/S culls some of the most promising genre talent around for writing and directing duties: Ti West ( House of the Devil, Innkeepers ), Adam Wingard ( A Horrible Way to Die ), Joe Swanberg ( LOL ), David Bruckner ( The Signal ), Glenn McQuaid ( I Sell the Dead ), and filmmaking collective Radio Silence. Their six disparate segments are tied together thusly (though you won’t want to go in knowing much more about it than this): Four prankster punks are promised a big payday to break into a house and steal a VHS tape, but once they get there they find an empty house, a body, and a stack of bizarre tapes to sift through. As they pop in each cassette in search of The Tape, described in vague “you’ll know it when you see it” terms, we see what they see — a collection of found recordings documenting strange, grisly happenings. The segments unfold as follows (SPOILER ALERT: If you want to know nothing going in, close your eyes and skip to the next paragraph): Wingard’s Tape 56 , Bruckner’s Amateur Night , West’s Second Honeymoon , McQuaid’s Tuesday the 17th , Swanberg’s The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger , and Radio Silence’s 10/31/98 . While I won’t spoil the details (or even the premises) of these shorts, suffice to say V/H/S serves as a stellar showcase for its stable of writers and directors, some of whom also worked on each others’ selections. (Swanberg and Wingard, for example, each direct a short and act in another.) What’s interesting to note is that, as the directors explained late Sunday night following their raucous midnight premiere, none had any idea what the others were planning when they were all making their films. So when certain trends pop up — say, sex-hungry twenty-something young men undone by their own pervy impulses, a popular theme — it’s by coincidence. The film itself is an experiment in found-footage filmmaking, a trend much more profitable than it is respected, and yet these are the guys who aren’t cashing in on their neophyte horror cache by signing on to studio-backed horror sequels and remakes and trend-catchers. So while it’s a method commonly associated with the Paranormal Activity phenomenon, each director here manages to do something different with the form that defies convention while winking at the horror faithful. Some segments evoke classic slasher horror, others the supernatural thriller, and even the indie relationship drama, but they all exploit the medium as a storytelling aide, tweaking horror cliches with unexpected, and effective results. “On a large derivative scale, [found footage] is not appealing,” said West during the film’s Q&A, explaining what appealed to him about experimenting with an otherwise tired methodology like this. Thankfully — impressively, miraculously! — these folks have figured out a way to make the gimmick fresh again, and in wildly different but inventive ways. In a time when the found footage train shows no immediate sign of stopping, at least there’s proof that it can be done in new ways, and well. Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Ugly face Ashley Tisdale isn’t so bad when she’s dressed like a fucking hipster in little short shorts showing off her legs she works so hard to keep thin and fit…or maybe I’m just into this cuz of her greasy or wet hair…looking like she either just had a shower…or more likely why I find it erotic…like a crack whore ready to suck dick for a warm shower….cuz it’s been a frew months and it is time….and who really knows…the bigger issue at hand is why the fuck I post pics of useless barely celebs in shorts like it matters…I need help people…
Rose McGowan….you’ve got a bad attitude….if you really hated the paparazzi…why the fuck don’t you live in Canada…or somewhere less Hollywood….giving them the finger…is mean. The paparazzi are classy immigrants just trying to live the American dream…one creppy photo at a time…there’s no need to get pissed off…it’s not like they are hiding in your closet or on your fire escape or going through your garbage…but that may be because you haven’t been in a movie in a long time…but that’s no reason to be a jerk…it’s not their fault you’ve changed your face since your car accident or that you broke up with the director future husband who always cast you…and the real issue in all this is why won’t you add me as a facebook friend….cuz I still find you hotness…funny lips and botox or not….you still have great tits…even if you have a bad bratty attitude… Yes..I just wrote a post as a letter to Rose McGowan…and no I’m not humilated by it…cuz I have no shame…
Some of the hottest pussy goes through the grocery store…my theory is that it is because we all have to eat…even the anorexics….cuz otherwise we’d die…making the grocery store the second best place to loiter besides the liquor store when they are handing out samples… Either way, it’s a great place for hot moms, single girls on their way home from the gym buying bananas for what I can only assume is the nights nutritious entertainment when done entertaining….but more importantly it’s a great place for teenage girls and sex offenders…or in Selena Gomez’s case…Teenage girls who are sex offenders… Here’s her young slutty booty…with her woman…
These idiots tried to sue me when I posted pictures of their honeymoon, so I kinda hate them for that but unfortunately, Lara Stone, a dutch model, has some of the most amazing tits in fashion, I’ve posted them HERE and HERE so it makes it hard for me to really hate her…no to mention I don’t know her, never will know her, and couldn’t really give less of a shit about her…and if anything…it just makes me want to befriend this couple on their get the wife pregnant vacation cuz I don’t deserve such a hot pussy…hence all the kissing tour….and that’s only to stare at her tits in person…but I guess I’m better off just staring at her tits in pictures…cuz they are everywhere, it is more accessible and less wor….and it gets their lawyers so angry…when really the only thing they should be angry about is that she has no ass…
This Lauren Pope hottie and I have just started our internet love affair, we’re still in the honeymoon phase, but things have been going really well. So far she’s shown me a lot of promising cleavage and barely-there evening wear, so I thought I should support her on some of her business ventures. Here she “working” as a DJ at some watch launch in South Beach. I wonder if she’s available to DJ my upcoming masturbation session. Call me.
Bill Condon tells MTV News he tried ‘to give people the experience they had reading the book’ in ‘Part I.’ By Terri Schwartz, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Director Bill Condon on the set of “Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1” with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson Photo: Andrew Cooper/Summit a href=”http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/454504/moviemain.jhtml”> “Breaking Dawn – Part 1” features two of the most hotly anticipated moments in the entire “Twilight Saga.” First, love birds Bella Swan and Edward Cullen finally get it on. And later, in a far less tender scene, Bella endures a pretty gory birth to give life to her half-human, half-vampire daughter, Renesmee. Bill Condon knew all along that those two scenes were pivotal moments that he would need to get right onscreen. But keeping in mind the PG-13 rating the studio wanted to preserve, the director also knew that he had to tackle those intense sequences without going too far over the line. When MTV News caught up with Condon, he predicted that fans will be pleased with the final product (especially the sex scene), which hit theaters on Friday (November 18). As in the novel, the honeymoon scene plays out mostly through Bella remembering the passionate night the morning after, which allowed Condon to show the event in several parts. “I think when you see the movie you’ll see, you think you get it and then you get more of it and then you get more of it, which I think was part of the intention because it’s such a big thing — everyone’s been waiting for it,” he said. “We just wanted to make sure you got a lot of it when you got it.” And Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were good sports about the whole process, Condon said, though he admitted filming the steamy section got “kind of clinical.” The scene was carefully choreographed but the two lead actors were “so cool about it.” The birthing sequence, which easily could have pushed the film to an “R” rating, proved similarly challenging. Condon wanted to stay as true as possible to Stephenie Meyer’s depiction but he knew he couldn’t be too graphic. “You want to give people the experience they had reading the book, and that was incredibly powerful, the way Stephenie described it. “You can’t show everything, obviously, we have a [PG-13] rated movie,” he said. “But we did it through the point of view of Bella and what she can see as she’s giving birth. I think your imagination fills in a lot of that.” Check out everything we’ve got on “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1.” For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com . Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: ‘Breaking Dawn Part -1’ Director And Screenwriter Related Photos Twilight: Breaking Dawn
