Police have detained a 31-year-old Oregon man who authorities allege killed a woman on Sunday in his home state then kidnapped a second woman before heading south to California, where he went on to shoot a man moments before hijacking a car with three people inside, People confirms. According to a statement issued by the Yreka, California, police department, Edwin Enoc Lara was apprehended Tuesday morning and is being held at the Tehama County Jail on an unspecified bail amount. The statement alleges Lara's arrest followed a brief police pursuit that covered more than 10 miles of California highway. Officials say that on Sunday,...
- 7/27/2016
- by Chris Harris, @chrisharrisment
- PEOPLE.com
Police have detained a 31-year-old Oregon man who authorities allege killed a woman on Sunday in his home state then kidnapped a second woman before heading south to California, where he went on to shoot a man moments before hijacking a car with three people inside, People confirms. According to a statement issued by the Yreka, California, police department, Edwin Enoc Lara was apprehended Tuesday morning and is being held at the Tehama County Jail on an unspecified bail amount. The statement alleges Lara's arrest followed a brief police pursuit that covered more than 10 miles of California highway. Officials say that on Sunday,...
- 7/27/2016
- by Chris Harris, @chrisharrisment
- PEOPLE.com
Who knew that Ben Stiller, the funnyman behind Zoolander and There’s Something About Mary, was the right man to bring James Thurber’s classic short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty to the big screen? Of course, much of the short story is absent from Stiller’s adaptation, but that was always a certainty (beautiful though it is, the original story is hardly enough to fill a short, let alone a major studio tentpole). What Stiller does manage to do, however, to my great surprise, is capture the adventurous heart of his title character.
Part of what makes Stiller’s characterization so enjoyable is how he nails the mannerisms of the Everyman. Working as a negative assets manager for the fictional Life magazine, Walter is quiet and awkward, more inclined to drift off into daydreams than actually look at what’s in front of him. Without alienating the character from the audience,...
Part of what makes Stiller’s characterization so enjoyable is how he nails the mannerisms of the Everyman. Working as a negative assets manager for the fictional Life magazine, Walter is quiet and awkward, more inclined to drift off into daydreams than actually look at what’s in front of him. Without alienating the character from the audience,...
- 4/18/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
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