Celluloid Film Review: The Lincoln Lawyer

Title: The Lincoln Lawyer

Year Of Release: 2011

Review Date: September 30, 2011

Rating: PG-13

Running time: 119 minutes

Box Office Gross: $85,507,593

Site Rating: 5 out of 10 stars

Family Warning: contains some sexual content, violence and bad language

"The Lincoln Lawyer" stars the handsome and charming, Matthew McConaughey, as a tough criminal defense attorney. At first, I thought the film was set in the U.S. city of Lincoln, Nebraska, due to the title, but it was not so.

The film apparently got its name from the main character, attorney, Mickey Haller, being driven around all day, by a round the way tough guy in a Lincoln car. The Lincoln serves as his office, as he has no fixed business address, well, other than his secondary one, a home office (my favorite kind).

Haller is sought out by a seemingly normal client, who claims he has been wrongly accused of a terrible murder, but as the film progresses, it is revealed, he is as a phrase I read recently, "Nuttier than squirrel doodoo." The film has many twists that are somewhat surprising.

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Justin Bieber Kisses Girlfriend Selena Gomez Again While Strolling Along The Beach

Justin Bieber Kissing Selena Gomez (Photo Credit: AKM/Splash)

Pop sensation Justin Bieber, 17 and his actress girlfriend, Selena Gomez, 19, were spotted strolling along the beach in Los Angeles, but this time, they did not look like they were about to copulate on the sand like last time. The couple held hands and kissed each other, without putting on a publicly raunchy display.

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Teen pop singer, Justin Bieber, 17, filmed a public service announcement in Los Angeles, California this week. During a break, when an assistant was fixing an item attached to him, Bieber lifted up his shirt, which revealed some of his purple Sesame Street underwear (how many times do I have to tell you - boy, pull up your pants). However, Bieber was wearing something under his shirt that looked like Spanx (LOL). What was that, Manx? Or since you're 17, Banx?

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R&B Singer Vesta Williams Found Dead In A Hotel Room

A Suspected Pharmaceutical Drug Overdose

Vesta Williams

R&B singer, Vesta Williams, was found dead in an El Segundo, California hotel room, with pharmaceutical pill bottles strewn in the unit, some of which were empty. Williams made her debut in the 1980s and was bar none one of the best female vocalists of the era.

Her soulful voice became an instant favorite of many in the black community. Williams was mostly known for the mega R&B hit "Congratulations" which made her a household name. Black women all over America took to that song that was very popular. However, the charts never truly reflected the impact the song made.

Williams was from the time when Billboard discriminated against minorities and country artists, doing its level best to keep them off the main singles and albums charts, relegated to small specialty ones, designed to pigeonhole people. It wasn't until a change to the charts in the late 1990s that more singers from the aforementioned genres began topping their charts. Otherwise, "Congratulations" and "Special" would have placed quite high on the Billboard singles charts. The audience was there, but Billboard was not listening to them.

Williams was one of those artists that was not considered mainstream enough to be marketed in a certain way in order to crossover. The deals available to black stars today, simply were not present 25-years-ago. As a result, the exposure was not there to reach wider audiences.

When you think of what is in the mainstream today, being force-fed to the public, via the likes of Rihanna, Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj, Cassie, Kesha and others like them, who simply can't sing or perform well, it is really ironic that an artist like Williams did not receive even 1/10th of that exposure or those opportunities, though she could sing all of them under the table. She never got her due and this is a very sad end to her story. The Judiciary Report sends its condolences to her family.

Justin Bieber Accused Of Drag Racing In Accident

Justin Bieber

17-year-old pop star, Justin Bieber, is being accused of engaging in illegal drag racing in Los Angeles, California. According to the Los Angeles Times, Bieber was drag racing House Of Pain rapper, Everlast, when the teen singer met into a an accident with another vehicle. Bieber needs to be thankful the accident was not worse and refrain from drag racing on the streets in the future, as it is dangerous to him, motorists and pedestrians. People have died under similar circumstances.

Justin Bieber's fender bender allegedly the result of street racing

August 31, 2011, 3:46 p.m.- ...Until the truth came out. Former House of Pain rapper Everlast (real name Erik Schrody) tweeted the following damning evidence on Wednesday (Aug. 31): "I just raced @justinbieber down Ventura in his Ferrari I won but a fedex truck got in his way." That's right. According to reports, Justin Bieber was street racing with Everlast. While we are disappointed that Justin is being so reckless, we are happy that Everlast apparently has somebody to hang out with.

http://www.latimes.com

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"Basketball Wives LA" cast

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As much as producer Shaunie O’Neal claims she dislikes the fighting on her show, stating it is not what the series is about, I find that very hard to believe. Admit it, you are the female Jerry Springer of reality television.

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Will Lindsay Lohan Go The Way Of Amy Winehouse

Lindsay Lohan

Will fallen actress, Lindsay Lohan, 24, go the way of deceased singer, Amy Winehouse, 27, due to rampant drug abuse and alcoholism. Lohan has a recklessness about her, in not caring about the consequences of her choices. Lohan has thrown away her career and personal life, over drinking and drugs.

Lindsay Lohan

Ironically, the judicial system in Los Angeles, has become one of her enablers, in slapping her on the wrist for serious criminal behavior and chronic drug and alcohol infractions of the law, rather than dealing with her conduct in a just manner.

Amy Winehouse died of a suspected drug overdose

A good six months to one year in prison, would have corresponded to her numerous charges and probation violations, which have accumulated over the past few years. It would have given Lohan adequate time to dry out and face sobriety head on, rather than pretending for a few days.

Amy Winehouse being taken to the morgue

Instead, Lohan spent hours and days, not months, behind bars and each time she was released, she would go right back to the bad behavior that got her in trouble in the first place. This did her no favors, as just yesterday, she was pictured looking drunk and high, whilst coming out of a night club.

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A Bit Iffy

Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez

Popular pop star couple, Justin Bieber, 17 and Selena Gomez, 18 made an appearance at the ESPY awards, in Los Angeles, which celebrates the best in sports. Bieber did look nice (boo, you may want to rethink the earrings, because they make you look like a chick).

Lindsey Vonn

However, his girlfriend, Gomez, as pretty as she is, took her wardrobe choices a bit far. As a general rule, if your underwear is touching the chair when you sit down, your skirt is too short. It's an awards show, not a gynecological exam.

Justin Bieber and Lindsay Vonn

In other Bieber news, Lindsey Vonn (yes, a Lindsey/Lindsay who is a winner, unlike you know who...but I digress) the pretty U.S. Olympic skater, wanted her picture taken with Bieber and he happily obliged. Is it just me or does that photo of the Bieber and Lindsey look like two pretty white girls (seriously, take out the earrings, Justin).

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Trevor Harwell

Computer technician, Trevor Harwell, has been arrested in Los Angeles, for spying on people in their homes. When customers would go to his repair company Rezitech for repairs to their computers, he would secretly install spyware that allowed him to later remotely access their laptops and PCs.

He would then secretly activate the webcams, using it to watch people, mostly women, in various states of undress and engaging in sexual activity in their homes, in deeds that are criminal violations of domestic and international law.

Harwell also installed malware that would create a fake pop up telling computer owners to take their laptops into the bathroom when they showered, as the steam would reportedly clean the sensors. It was all a lie to perversely watch women naked in the shower.

The criminal scam was uncovered when a woman took her computer to an Apple store and one of the company's technicians found the illegal software Harwell surreptitiously installed and instructed her to call the police.

Authorities opened an investigation into Harwell and later arrested him. He has been released on $50,000 bail pending trial. Police also seized from Harwell's computers "hundreds of thousands of still images and videos" he secretly took of his victims in their home, stashed on his computer. We are living in a sick world.

STORY SOURCE

Police: Computer tech installed peeping software

FULLERTON, Calif.—A Southern California computer repairman suspected of installing spyware on laptops that enabled him to snap and download photographs of women showering and undressing in their homes was arrested Wednesday at his home, police said.

Police began investigating when a Fullerton resident complained about suspicious messages appearing on his daughter's computer last year. Trevor Harwell installed software that took control of computer webcams on his clients' Mac laptops, Fullerton police Sgt. Andrew Goodrich said. He was released later Wednesday after posting $50,000 bond, Goodrich said.

The software sent fake error messages telling users to "fix their internal sensor soon," and "try putting your laptop near hot steam for several minutes to clean the sensor," Goodrich said. The error message prompted some victims to take their laptops into the bathroom with them when they showered, he said.

"Once he had access, he would take photographs of the users, usually women," Goodrich said. "Often, the female victims were undressed or changing clothes. Harwell then stored the photos on a remote server, and eventually downloaded them on his own computer."...

http://www.boston.com

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