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Jaco Marais Cape Town lawyer William Booth's house was scouted several times before three gangsters tried to kill him.   On one occasion, two of the gangsters got high in the bushes before the hit, but one fell into a hole and hurt his leg.    He had to go to Groote Schuur Hospital for treatment, annoying the prison gangster who ordered the hit.  The details of the attempted hit on Cape Town lawyer William Booth were released in an unexpected plea and sentencing agreement in the Cape Town Regional Court on Friday.   However, instead of a sleek coterie of assassins, the mission turned o...

A federal judge in Greenville has ordered California businessman Scott Kohn to pay $501 million in a civil case involving the buying and selling of military veterans' benefits, an illegal practice illuminated by an investigation of The Greenville News. Kohn and a web of his affiliated companies must pay $436 million in restitution to thousands of veterans and other pensioners across the nation, according to an order that U.S. District Judge Bruce Hendricks signed last month. Kohn and his companies also are required to pay $65 million in penalties to the federal Consumer Financial Protectio...

Kubrick wrote a treatment for ‘Lunatic at Large’ but never made it.

Lunatic is the first to be revived. Advertisement The film has been described as a “film-noir thriller” similar to other projects involving a collaboration between Kubrick and his frequent screenwriting collaborator Jim Thompson. There are no plot details or casting announcements available at the time of writing, but production is scheduled to begin this autumn. “The opportunity to bring a Stanley Kubrick project to the screen after so many years is a dream come true,” Walker said in a statement. “We look forward to making a film in keeping with his unique style and vision.” Hen...

Photo: Evening Standard (Getty Images) A pair of film industry vets are taking a crack at an un-produced screenplay written by the late Stanley Kubrick. Variety reports that producers Bruce Hendricks and Galen Walker are developing the film noir thriller Lunatic At Large—one of three scripts discovered following Kubrick’s death in 1999, and one of several collaborations with pulp novelist Jim Thompson, who worked with the filmmaker on The Killing, Spartacus. The New York Times once described the story as “a dark and surprising mystery of sorts, in which the greatest puzzle is who, ...