Friday, November 12, Get help. Clyde Fitch Report. Ideas Literary Stage Theater. Story continues below. Elizabeth Burke - September 28, 0. None of the second-rate white men currently on the Supreme Court will receive the honors given to RBG when they finally die. Artists First? Charting a Future for the American Theater June 10, Leonard Jacobs - August 9, 0. And then there was Jerry Falwell, Jr. July 5, Is Another — or Civil War? June 3, What Mask? On March 11, , Walter Law's corpse was found slumped over in the front seat of Gaertner's car.
He had a gun at his side and an illegal bottle of gin. Gaertner was not at the scene. She'd be found at her apartment. As Velma claims in "Cell Block Tango," she was discovered covered in blood and claiming she had no memory of what happened. Annan was a pretty young wife with a blue-collar husband. Gaertner was a year-old socialite with wealth and two to three divorces under her garter.
Prosecutors argued the same motive to both: vengeance on the lover who would leave them. In response, both played on public sympathy to win their freedom. With tears and an expanding sob story, Annan claimed she was pregnant, and that was the source of her fatal fight with Kalstedt. So, you see gentle public, she wasn't only shooting him in the back to save her own life but also the life of her unborn child!
Reportedly, this story sounded all the more compelling told with her "lovely soft Southern accent. Meanwhile, Gaertner was peddling herself as a victim of the evil jazz scene. They aren't worth it, because there are always plenty more. Walter was just a kid — 29 and I'm Why should I have worried whether he loved me or whether he left me? Gin and guns — either one is bad enough, but together they get you in a dickens of a mess, don't they?
Over six months on this beat, Watkins made a name for herself by recounting every detail of these cases, the accused stories — even as they changed — and the way they looked. Of Annan, this groundbreaking reporter wrote, "They say she's the prettiest woman ever accused of murder in Chicago — young, slender, with bobbed auburn hair; wide-set, appealing blue eyes; up-tilted nose; translucent skin, faintly, very faintly, rouged, an ingenuous smile; refined features, intelligent expression—an 'awfully nice girl' and more than usually pretty.
Annan, Gaertner, and others took advantage of this attention to appearance , which extended far beyond Watkins' coverage. It's said they set up a beauty school in the prison to help their sisters in stir look like captivating captives to the court and their all-male juries. Still, Watkins worked in a juicy thread of skepticism in her columns about these alleged killers. Read some for yourself! It didn't seem to matter. A born star, Roxie's willing to do anything to get famous. Rather than be a good wife to the loving Amos, Roxie has shacked up with the sleazy Fred Casely, who claims to have connections in the entertainment industry.
Though when it comes out that Casely has been lying to Roxie about his glamorous friends, she takes it very, very personally. Challenge… clearing her name and getting off death row. After murdering Fred Casely in cold blood, Roxie's looking at the harshest possible punishment: hanging. Personality… narcissistic, vain, and desperate. And they love me for loving them and I love them for loving me.
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