Paul Davis On Crime: Paul Bond

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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Charlton Heston Honored With U.S. Postage Stamp

Last week Paul Bond at the Hollywood Reporter offered a piece on the ceremony honoring actor and activist Charlton Heston with a U.S. stamp.

Charlton Heston, the movie star, political activist and former head of the National Rifle Association, got his own postage stamp on Friday, unveiled at a ceremony at the historic Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

The stamp bearing Heston's image is a painting taken from a photo shot by his widow, Lydia Clarke Heston, who attended Friday's ceremony, which was part of the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/charlton-heston-gets-a-postage-695505

Monday, March 31, 2014

America's Biggest Serial Killer: Philadelphia Abortion Doctor And Convicted Murderer To Be Topic Of TV Movie

Paul Bond at the Hollywood Reporter offers a piece on a film being made about Philadelphia abortion doctor and murderer Kermit Gosnell.

An independent filmmaker says he will tackle the gruesome and controversial case of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion doctor serving life in prison after multiple convictions on first-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.

Gosnell's crimes allegedly occurred over the course of decades. A grand jury said he kept severed feet of late-term fetuses in display jars; killed newborns with scissors to the backs of their necks; kept fetal remains in refrigerators next to employee lunches; joked about killing viable fetuses; and kept his patients bleeding and writhing in pain for hours. Anti-abortion advocates charged that mainstream media ignored the trial and its grisly details.

The filmmaker, Phelim McAleer, says he will explore not only Gosnell's actions -- he calls Gosnell "America's biggest serial killer" -- but also what he says is the bureaucratic and media inattention that allowed them to continue until his arrest in 2011.

... "It's a graphic story," says McAleer. "Gosnell is a fascinating monster; a hoarder, mad man and megalomaniac. He's a black man who is racist against blacks and Hispanics. He's a real-life Hannibal Lecter. It’s an omission that Hollywood is ignoring the biggest serial killer in American history, and we’re going to fill that gap."

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/abortion-doctor-kermit-gosnell-eyed-691963

You can also read an earlier post on Gosnell via the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2013/05/hell-can-wait-convicted-baby-murderer.html

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Radio Stations That Switched To All Christmas Music Format Raised Their Ratings

Despite the grumbling of some folks about Christmas music, Paul Bond at Billboard.biz reports that radio stations that switched to the all Christmas music format have raised their ratings, and in some cases, the radio stations doubled their ratings.

You can read the piece via the below link:

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/record-labels/how-an-all-christmas-music-format-doubles-1005618152.story

I was pleased to read this report, as I love Christmas music.

I wrote a piece for the Philadelphia Inquirer a few years back about Christmas music and the musical celebration of Jesus Christ.

You can read the piece via the below link:

http://home.comcast.net/~pauldavisoncrime/pwpimages/CarolsCommentaryPhiladelphiaInquirerDec5th2005.jpg

Paul Davis

Paul Davis is a writer who covers crime. He has written extensively about organized crime, cybercrime, street crime, white collar crime, crime fiction, crime prevention, the military, espionage and terrorism. He is a contributor to the Washington Examiner, and his work has also appeared in the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Daily News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Weekly and other publications. His 'Crime Beat' column, which covers crime news, crime issues and crime prevention in South Philadelphia, appears weekly in the South Philly Review, and his 'On Crime' column, which covers crime in the Greater Philadelphia region, appears weekly at Philly Daily and Broad and Liberty. He is also a longtime contributor to Counterterrorism magazine and writes their online 'Threatcon' column, which covers crime, espionage and terrorism. Paul Davis' crime fiction appears in American Crime Magazine. As a writer, he has attended police academy training, gone out on patrol with police officers, accompanied detectives as they worked cases, accompanied narcotics officers on drug raids, observed criminal court proceedings, visited jails and prisons, and covered street riots, mob wars and murder investigations. He has interviewed police commissioners and chiefs, FBI, DEA, HSI and other federal special agents, prosecutors, judges, public officials, WWII UDT frogmen, Navy SEALs, Army Delta operators, Israeli commandos, military intelligence officers, Scotland Yard detectives, CIA officers, former KGB officers, film and TV actors, film writers, directors and producers, journalists, novelists and true crime authors, gamblers, outlaw bikers, and Cosa Nostra organized crime bosses. Paul Davis has been a student of crime since he was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 17 in 1970. He served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War and he later served two years aboard the Navy harbor tugboat U.S.S. Saugus at the U.S. floating nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. He went on to become the civilian administrative officer of a Defense Department command in Philadelphia, where he oversaw security, safety and other programs for the command's military and civilian employees, and served as an investigating officer, while working part-time as a newspaper crime reporter and columnist. He retired in 2007 after more than 37 Navy/DOD years of service and became a full-time writer. From 1991 to 2005 he was a producer and on-air host of "Inside Government," a public affairs interview radio program that aired on Sunday mornings on WPEN AM and WMGK FM in the Philadelphia area. You can read Paul Davis' crime columns, crime fiction, book reviews and news and feature articles on this website. You can read his full bio by clicking on the above photo (by Brittany Davis-Pearson). And you can contact Paul Davis at pauldavisoncrime@aol.com.

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