Articoli di giornale originali: Brad e la legge
Aug. 30 2001 — Young actor Brad Renfro and a companion have been charged with
grand theft by Florida police after they allegedly tried to steal a 45-foot
yacht early Monday.
According to police reports quoted in the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, two
people sleeping in a neighboring boat heard an engine start up at 3:40 a.m.
and awoke to see Renfro, 18, and Harold Bond, 24, trying to drive the $175,000
boat away from its dock in a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., harbor.
The witnesses claimed that Renfro and his partner forgot to untie the yacht’s
dock lines, which caused the boat to be yanked back and to crash into the dock,
damaging its stern. The witnesses apparently yelled at the two young men to
stop and then dragged them off the boat and held them until police and the boat’s
manager arrived on the scene.
Renfro was released from jail Monday night after posting $10,000 bail. The one-time
teen pinup is in Fort Lauderdale filming Bully, a twisted true story about a
group of tormented suburban teens who murder their abusive high-school classmate.
Teen Distraught Over Arrest
“[Renfro] seemed to be the most distraught about being arrested,”yacht manager
Paul Roydhouse told the Sun-Sentinel.
The AptPupil star has been in legal hot water before. In 1998, he was arrested
in his hometown of Knoxville, Tenn., when police pulled him over and allegedly
found cocaine and marijuana in his pants and socks. Renfro agreed to undergo
random drug screening as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors.
A Fort Lauderdale Police Department spokesman said Renfro was evasive when detectives
interrogated him Monday morning. Police are currently investigating whether
the actor and his friend — who is still being held on $10,000 bail — were using
drugs or alcohol at the time of the incident.
Renfro also appeared in Sleepers and John Grisham’s The Client. He won The Hollywood
Reporter’s Young Star Award in 1995 and has been named one of People magazine’s
Top 30 under 30.
Renfro Pleads Innocent
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October 9 2001— Actor Brad Renfro has pleaded innocent to charges that he tried
to steal a yacht from a Florida harbor Aug. 28.
The down-on-his-luck 18-year-old, who starred in the 1994 film The Client, was
absent from Thursday's hearing in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where his attorney
entered the plea of innocent on his behalf.
Renfro, a resident of Knoxville, Tenn., is charged with one count each of third-degree grand theft and criminal mischief. He is free on $10,000 bond.
Renfro and a companion are charged with trying to steal a 45-foot yacht from Holiday Harbor. The two alleged boat thieves forgot to untie all the docking lines, which snagged, damaging the $175,000 vessel, police say.
Coincidentally, Renfo has been in Fort Lauderdale to film a new movie, Bully. Since making a splash in John Grisham's The Client, Renfro's film credits include Sleepers, Telling Lies in America, Apt Pupil, and the upcoming Deuces Wild and comic-book adaptation Ghost World.
The actor was arrested in 1998 at the tender age of 15 for allegedly possessing
marijuana and cocaine. Renfro struck a deal with prosecutors, in which they
dropped all charges and he agreed to undergo random drug testing.
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Su N.Y. Rabbit
HERSCHEL HOPPER: NEW YORK RABBIT Downloadable at
rumpus.com
The first ever Internet-only movie, Herschel Hopper is a 45-minute animated
family feature about a scruffy rabbit who gets accidentally sent to NYC and
finds himself in the middle of everything. Featuring an all-star cast of voices,
Herschel Hopper appears to be a good project, although the Flash animation might
be a challenge since it's so revolutionary for the industry. Tanner, Herschel's
best friend, "a really cool kid" who works at a pet shop. Announced
early last March, Brad went to New York March 10-12 to record his voice readings.
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Su Bully
Diciottenni infernali, per loro
uccidere è solo un videogioco
dall' inviato di "Repubblica" ROBERTO NEPOTI
VENEZIA - Piccoli omicidi tra amici. Più che un catalogo di coiti, stupri,
droghe e atti di violenza - che pure vi abbondano - Bully è un film sui
rapporti di potere. Due graziosi bulli, Robby e Marty, passano il tempo a farsi
di sostanze stupefacenti, confezionare filmini porno, estorcere dollari ai gay.
L'incontro con due pupe di nome Ali e Lisa instaura un campo di rapporti di
forza gravitante intorno a Bobby, sadico che plagia e malmena sistematicamente
l'amico, prevarica e stupra le ragazze. Finché il trio delle vittime
non decide di ammazzare il carnefice, coinvolgendo nell'impresa quattro altri
coetanei variamente disturbati.
I ragazzi della porta accanto concepiscono l'omicidio come una congiura degli innocenti, un delitto senza castigo; qualcosa di cui vantarsi con qualche amichetto, magari, come di una vittoria a un videogioco. Ma come insegnava Alfred Hitchcock, uccidere è qualcosa di molto, molto truculento.
Più che il filmscandalo largamente annunciato, sulla fiducia dei precedenti di Larry Clark (Kids, Another Day in Paradise), Bully è il film di un moralista. Mette paura per l'immagine di totale anestesia morale che fissa sulla pellicola e per il modo in cui lo fa: mostrando, cioè, la "normalità" della follia collettiva che rappresenta, la cecità degli adulti, l'inconscio desiderio di morte dei ragazzi. Clark sa come fabbricare e coniugare le immagini; mentre le "sporca" con un tono di verità, trascina poco a poco lo spettatore in un macabro giro di valzer, magari roteando vorticosamente la cinepresa da un volto all'altro - uno più pulito e innocente dell'altro - degli adolescenti che stanno mettendo a punto il piano omicida. Se la discesa nell'inferno dei teenagers lascia il segno, il film incorre però in un'overdose di intenzioni predicatorie; diventando una sorta di American Beauty al calor bianco, dove pare che dietro la facciata di ogni famiglia americana ci sia qualcuno pronto a uccidere.