Death Sentence is a 2007 American drama/thriller film loosely based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Brian Garfield. Directed by Saw director James Wan, the film stars Kevin Bacon as Nick Hume, a man who takes the law into his own hands after his son is murdered by a gang as an initiation ritual. Hume must then protect his family from the gang's resulting vengeance. The film premiered on August 31, 2007, and was released on DVD on January 8, 2008.

Plot[link]

Nick Hume (Kevin Bacon) is husband to Helen (Kelly Preston), and father of two boys, Brendan and Lucas. After Brendan's hockey game, Nick and Brendan (Stuart Lafferty), the star of his team, drive home talking about the latter's potential future as a professional hockey player. They make a quick stop at a gas station to refuel. During what appears to be a robbery of the gas station, Joe Darley (Matt O'Leary), younger brother to gang leader and a new initiate, slices Brendan's throat open with a machete. Nick attempts to ambush the thugs, managing to pull off Joe's mask and see his face, but Joe escapes, only to be hit by a car. Nick rushes Brendan to the hospital, but his son dies from major blood loss.

Nick soon discovers that, if the case goes to court at all, the murderer would only be sentenced to 3 to 5 years in jail for his crime, so he forces the police to drop the case. Joe, now a free man, becomes the target of Nick's revenge; he is eventually killed when Nick stabs him with a rusty knife in Joe's home. The gang leader, Billy Darley (Garrett Hedlund) wants revenge for the death of his little brother. After discounting members of other gangs as culprits they learn a gang member's sister happened to see a man in a suit the night Joe died. Quickly realizing it must be Nick, they ambush him the next day, atop a multi-story parking garage. Nick escapes, but takes another gang member's life in the process. Billy warns Nick that they will be coming for his family and that he has bought them a 'death sentence.'

The police detective who's been following Nick's case, Detective Jessica Wallis (Aisha Tyler), is aware of what is happening; she grants Nick's family police protection and has a callout to Billy's gang. The officers watching over the family are killed in an ensuing raid, and the gang members make their way inside, where they attack and shoot at Nick, his wife Helen, and his remaining son Luke (Jordan Garrett).

Nick and Luke survive, but Helen does not (although this situation with Helen is not shown to the viewers). After Detective Wallis gives a brief speech on how wars are never settled, she lets Nick pay a short visit to his now-comatose son in the hospital, where he apologizes for not being a better father. Nick escapes the hospital to go after the remaining gang members, obtaining guns from a black market gun dealer named Bones Darley (John Goodman). (Darley has been the gang's boss up to this point, and is revealed to be Billy's father. Billy kills him after Darley criticizes and warns him.) Nick then tracks down Heco, another member of the gang, and interrogates him about where the other members are. He calls Billy on the phone, threatening him, and executes Heco while Billy is listening. Nick heads to Billy's lair, called "The Office", to kill the remainder of the gang. After an intense shootout, he confronts and shoots Billy in a quick duel which leaves both men seriously wounded. Dying of his wounds, Billy admits to Nick that he did, in fact, turn Nick into a vicious cold-blooded killer just like him. After this, Nick pulls out one of his guns and asks if Billy's "ready" (indicating to the viewer that he finishes Billy off, although this is not shown).

With his family now avenged, Nick returns home and starts to watch videos of his family. Detective Wallis arrives and tells him that his son has started moving and will live. Nick shows a sign of relief and looks back to the TV, which shows Luke, Helen, Nick and Brendan singing on the couch. Nick is seriously wounded at this point, and it is unclear if he survives in the end (although the unrated cut actually shows him dying). ^[2]

Cast[link]

• Kevin Bacon as Nick Hume
• Garrett Hedlund as Billy Darley
• Kelly Preston as Helen Hume
• Yorgo Constantine as Michael Behring
• John Goodman as Bones Darley
• Aisha Tyler as Detective Jessica Wallis
• Matt O'Leary as Joe Darley
• Leigh Whannell as Spink
• Stuart Lafferty as Brendan Hume
• Jordan Garrett as Lucas Hume
• Zachary Dylan Smith as Young Brendan Hume
• Edi Gathegi as Bodie
• Hector Atreyu Ruiz as Heco
• Kanin Howell as Baggy

Critical reception[link]

On the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, 19% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 106 reviews, as of February 27, 2009.^[3] On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 36 out of 100, based on 24 reviews.^[4] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2½ stars out of 4. He compared Death Sentence to the Death Wish films starring Charles Bronson, saying: "In the Bronson movies, the hero just looked more and more determined until you felt if you tapped his face, it would explode. In Death Sentence, Bacon acts out a lot more." Ebert called Death Sentence "very efficient", praising "a courtroom scene of true surprise and suspense, and some other effective moments", but concluded that "basically this is a movie about a lot of people shooting at each other".^[5]

Scott Tobias of The A.V. Club contends the film is "certainly never boring"; he felt that director James Wan was "too busy jamming the accelerator to realize that his movie's spinning out of control."^[6] Matt Zoller Seitz of The New York Times said, "Aside from a stunning three-minute tracking shot as the gang pursues Nick through a parking garage, and Mr. Bacon's hauntingly pale, dark-eyed visage, Mr. Wan's film is a tedious, pandering time-waster."^[7] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly felt that "[t]he morality of revenge is barely at issue in a movie that pushes the plausibility of revenge right over a cliff."^[8] Conversely, Justin Chang of Variety called the film "well-made, often intensely gripping".^[9] Similarly, Bill Gibron of PopMatters felt the film was "a significant movie" and "a wonderfully tight little thriller".^[10] Darren Amner of Eye for Film also gave the film a positive review, praising Bacon's performance in particular: "[H]is portrayal is emotional, sympathetic and highly aggressive. As a father he is touching and as a stone-cold killing machine he is even more convincing."^[11]

Author Brian Garfield, who wrote the novel the film is loosely based on, said of the film: "While I could have done with a bit less blood-and-thunder, I think it's a stunningly good movie. In the details of its story it's quite different from the novel, but it's a movie, not a novel. In its cinematic way it connects with its audience and it makes the same point the book makes, and those are the things that count." He also liked that, like his novels, but unlike the Death Wish film series, it does not advocate vigilantism.^[12] Garfield further explained in an interview: "I think that, except for its ludicrous violence toward the end, the Death Sentence movie does depict its character's decline and the stupidity of vengeful vigilantism," adding, "As a story it made the point I wanted it to make."^[13]

Ratings[link]

The Region 1 DVD includes two versions: theatrical, rated R by the US MPAA, and an unrated version. The DVD's Canadian ratings are 18A and 16 ans (for the Province of Quebec).

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site
• Death Sentence at the Internet Movie Database
• Death Sentence at Rotten Tomatoes
• Death Sentence at Metacritic
• Death Sentence at Box Office Mojo
• Death Sentence at AllRovi
• Trailer at Yahoo!

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Charles Alexander "Charlie" Clouser ( /ˈklaʊzər/;^[1] born June 28, 1963) is an American musician whose activities include playing keyboard, synth, theremin, and drums. He is known for his abilities in music programming, engineering, mixing, and remixing. He was a member of the band Nine Inch Nails 1994–2000. Before he was in Nine Inch Nails, he was in the alternative band Burning Retna with former L.A. Guns guitarist Mick Cripps and fellow Nothing Records worker Sean Beavan. Clouser also was a member of the band 9 Ways to Sunday who released a self titled album in 1990. Clouser has remixed artists such as Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein and Meat Beat Manifesto.

In 2004 Clouser produced the album Size Matters by the band Helmet, which consisted mainly of collaborations between Charlie Clouser and Page Hamilton, intended to be a Page Hamilton "solo" album. The first release from the project "Throwing Punches" appeared on a soundtrack in 2003 for the film Underworld credited as a Page Hamilton track.

In the late 1990s Clouser created one of FirstCom music's master series discs. These were only sold with licence to use commercially.

Two songs programmed by Clouser were nominated for Grammy Awards in 1997: White Zombie's "I'm Your Boogie Man" and Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper's "Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn)," the latter of which Clouser also co-wrote and mixed.

He worked with Trent Reznor on the soundtrack of Natural Born Killers, helping record and produce a new version of "Something I Can Never Have," a track of which original version appeared on Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine album. The remix of Rob Zombie's "Dragula" can be found on The Matrix soundtrack, also credited to Clouser. Another Rob Zombie track remixed by Clouser, "Reload", appears on The Matrix Reloaded soundtrack. He produced Helmet's album Size Matters and the unfinished project with Page Hamilton called Gandhi.

He provided the live synth for Alec Empire's "Intelligence And Sacrifice" tour in 2001.

He appears in the Moog documentary about electronic-music pioneer Robert Moog and composed the song "I Am a Spaceman" for the original soundtrack of that movie.

Clouser has also worked as a film and television composer, scoring the Saw series of films, as well as Death Sentence (2007), Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), Dead Silence (2007), and Deepwater (2005).^[2] On television, he was the composer for the TV series Las Vegas (NBC), Fastlane (Fox), and NUMB3RS (CBS). Additionally, he composed the theme song for those shows as well as American Horror Story^[3](FX).

For the film Saw, he composed the ending theme "Hello Zepp".

Personal life[link]

Charlie was born in Hanover, New Hampshire. He married his long-time girlfriend, photographer and model Zoe Wiseman in the summer of 2007.

Discography[link]

[edit] 9 Ways to Sunday

• 9 Ways to Sunday (1990)

[edit] 12 Rounds

• Pleasant Smell (1998)

[edit] Alec Empire

• Live at Fuji-Rock (2001)

[edit] Apartment 26

• Music for the Massive (2004)

[edit] Black Light Burns

• Cruel Melody (2007)

[edit] Burning Retna

• Frozen Lies (2006)

[edit] Collide

• Vortex (2004)
• Live at the El Rey (2005)

[edit] David Bowie

• I'm Afraid of Americans (1997)
• Seven (2000)
• Best of Bowie (2002)

[edit] Deltron 3030

• Positive Contact (2001)

[edit] Die Krupps

• The Final Remixes (1994)
• Rings of Steel (1995)
• Fire (1997)

[edit] Esthero

• Breath from Another (1998)
• Heaven Sent (1998)

[edit] FAT

• Down Time (1995)

[edit] Foetus

• Blow (2001)

[edit] Fuel

• Natural Selection (2003)

[edit] Helmet

• Size Matters (2004)

[edit] John Frusciante

• Shadows Collide with People (2004)

[edit] Killing Joke

• Democracy (1996)

[edit] Marilyn Manson

• Portrait of an American Family (1994)
• "Lunchbox" (1994)
• Smells Like Children (1995)
• "Sweet Dreams" (1995)
• Antichrist Superstar (1996)
• "Tourniquet Pt. 2" (1997)
• Lest We Forget: The Best Of (2004)

[edit] Meat Beat Manifesto

• Asbestos Lead Asbestos (1996)

[edit] Nine Inch Nails

• The Downward Spiral (1994)
• Further Down the Spiral (1995)
• The Perfect Drug (1997)
• Closure (1997)
• The Day the World Went Away (1999)
• The Fragile (1999)
• Into the Void (1999)
• Starfuckers, Inc. (1999)
• Things Falling Apart (2000)
• And All That Could Have Been (2002)

[edit] A Perfect Circle

• eMOTIVe (2004)

[edit] Prong

• Broken Peace (1994)
• Rude Awakening (1996)

[edit] Puscifer

• Don't Shoot the Messenger EP (2007)

[edit] Radiator

• Black Shine (remix) (1998)

[edit] Rammstein

• Stripped (1998)

[edit] Reach 454

• Reach 454 (2003)

[edit] Real McCoy

• Another Night (1994, 1995)

[edit] Rob Zombie

• The Great American Nightmare (1997)
• Hellbilly Deluxe (1998)
• Dragula (1998)
• Living Dead Girl (1999)
• American Made Music to Strip By (1999)
• Remix-a-Go-Go (1999)
• The Best of Rob Zombie (2006)

[edit] Schwein

• Son of Schweinstein (2001)

[edit] Snake River Conspiracy

• Pre-Fatty Tingle (2000)
• Sonic Jihad (2000)

[edit] Splattercell

• AH - ReMiKSiS (2000)

[edit] Type O Negative

• Cinnamon Girl (1997)
• D-Side 1 (2000)
• Least Worst Of (2000)

[edit] White Zombie

• Astro Creep: 2000 (1995)
• More Human than Human (1995)
• Real Solution #9 (1995)
• Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls (1996)
• Supersexy Swingin' Sounds (1996)
• Electric Head Pt. 2 (The Ecstasy) (1996)

Other[link]

Soundtracks[link]

• Natural Born Killers (1994)
• The Doom Generation (1995) (soundtrack and DVD menu music)
• Escape from L.A. (1996)
• Beavis and Butt-head Do America (1996)
• The Fan (1996)
• Lost Highway (1997)
• Private Parts (1997)
• Nowhere (1997)
• End of Days (1999)
• The Matrix (1999)
• The Crow: Salvation (2000)
• Valentine (2001)
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
• Underworld (2003)
• Moog (2004)
• Collateral (2004)
• Saw (2004)
• Deepwater (2005)
• Las Vegas (2005)
• Saw II (2005)
• Saw III (2006)
• Dead Silence (2007)
• Death Sentence (2007)
• Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
• Saw IV (2007)
• Saw V (2008)
• Valkyrie (2008)
• Yes Man (2008)
• Saw VI (2009)
• Saw 3D (2010)
• American Horror Story (2011)

Film scores[link]

• Saw (2004)
• Deepwater (2005)
• NBC's Las Vegas (2005)
• Saw II (2005)
• Saw III (2006)
• Dead Silence (2007)
• Death Sentence (2007)
• Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
• Saw IV (2007)
• Saw V (2008)
• The Stepfather (2009)
• Saw VI (2009)
• Saw 3D (2010)

Misc[link]

• In Defense of Animals Volume 2 (1996)
• Volume Fourteen - Reading '95 Special (1996)
• FirstCom Master Series Charlie Clouser - NAILS (1997)
• Best Alternative Volume 7 (1997)
• Industrial Mix Machine (1997)
• ECW: Extreme Music (1998)
• Duke Nukem (Music to Score By - the official Duke Nukem Album) (1999)
• Twisted Metal 4 (Video Game Score) (1999)
• Kerrang! Magazine 1999: The Finest Tracks of the Year (1999)
• Dark Decryption - The Electro Remix Selection Vol. 02 (2002)
• Symphoniacal (2008)
• Singularity (2010)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Burning Retna on Myspace

Kevin Bacon
Bacon at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, on January 23, 2010.
Born	Kevin Norwood Bacon (1958-07-08) July 8, 1958 (age 53) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1978–present
Spouse	Kyra Sedgwick (1988–present; 2 children)
Website
http://www.baconbros.com/

Kevin Norwood Bacon^[1] (born July 8, 1958) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, Apollo 13, Hollow Man, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Tremors, Death Sentence, Frost/Nixon, and X-Men: First Class.

Bacon has won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, was nominated for an Emmy Award,^[2] and was named by The Guardian as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.^[3]

In 2003, Bacon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.^[2]

Early life[link]

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Bacon, one of six children, was born and raised in a close-knit family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Ruth Hilda (née Holmes; 1916–1991), taught at an elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Norwood Bacon (May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005), was a well-respected architect and a prominent Philadelphian who had been Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission for many years. At 16, in 1975, Bacon won a full scholarship to and attended the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts at Bucknell University, a state-funded five-week arts program where he studied Theatre under Dr. Glory Van Scott, which helped solidify Bacon's passion for the arts.

Acting career[link]

Bacon left home at age 17 to pursue a theater career in New York, where he appeared in a production at the Circle in the Square Theater School. "I wanted life, man, the real thing", he later recalled to Nancy Mills of Cosmopolitan. "The message I got was 'The arts are it. Business is the devil's work. Art and creative expression are next to godliness.' Combine that with an immense ego and you wind up with an actor."^[4]

Bacon's debut in the fraternity comedy Animal House in 1978 did not lead to the fame for which he had hoped,^{[citation needed]} and Bacon returned to waiting tables and auditioning for small roles in theater. He briefly worked on the television soap operas Search for Tomorrow (1979) and The Guiding Light (1980–81) in New York. He refused an offer of a television series based on Animal House to be filmed in California in order to remain close to the New York stage^{[citation needed]} . Some of his early stage work included Getting Out performed at New York's Phoenix Theater, and Flux which he did at Second Stage Theatre during their 1981–1982 season.

In 1982, he won an Obie Award for his role in Forty Deuce, and soon after made his Broadway debut in Slab Boys, with then-unknowns Sean Penn and Val Kilmer. However, it was not until he portrayed Timothy Fenwick that same year in Barry Levinson's Diner – costarring Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Tim Daly and Ellen Barkin – that he made an indelible impression on film critics and moviegoers alike.^{[citation needed]}

Bacon in 2007

Bolstered by the attention garnered by his performance in Diner, Bacon starred in the 1984 box-office smash Footloose. Richard Corliss of TIME likened Footloose to the James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause and the old Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland musicals, commenting that the film includes "motifs on book burning, mid-life crisis, AWOL parents, fatal car crashes, drug enforcement, and Bible Belt vigilantism."^[5] To prepare for the role, Bacon enrolled at a high school as a transfer student named "Ren McCormick" and studied teenagers before leaving in the middle of the day.^{[citation needed]} Bacon did earn strong reviews for Footloose,^[6] and he appeared on the cover of People magazine soon after its release.

Bacon's critical and box-office success lead to a period of typecasting in roles similar to the two he portrayed in Diner and Footloose. Bacon would have difficulty shaking this on-screen image. For the next several years he chose films that cast him against either type and experienced, by his own estimation, a career slump. In 1988, he starred in John Hughes' comedy She's Having a Baby and the following year he was in another comedy called The Big Picture.

In 1990, Bacon had two successful roles. He played a character who saved his town from under-the-earth "graboid" monsters in the comedy/horror film Tremors – a role that People found him "far too accomplished"^{[citation needed]} to play – and portrayed an earnest medical student experimenting with death in Joel Schumacher's Flatliners.

Bacon's next project was to star opposite Elizabeth Perkins in He Said, She Said. Despite lukewarm reviews and low audience turnout, He Said, She Said was illuminating for Bacon. Required to play a character with sexist attitudes, he admitted that the role was not that large a stretch for him.

By 1991, Bacon began to give up the idea of playing leading men in big-budget films and to remake himself as a character actor. "The only way I was going to be able to work on 'A' projects with really 'A' directors was if I wasn't the guy who was starring", he confided to The New York Times writer Trip Gabriel. "You can't afford to set up a $40 million movie if you don't have your star."^[7]

He performed that year as gay prostitute Willie O'Keefe in Oliver Stone's JFK. He went on to play a prosecuting attorney in the military courtroom drama A Few Good Men. Later that year he returned to the theater to play in Spike Heels, directed by Michael Greif.

Bacon receiving a Merit Award in April 2010

In 1994, Bacon earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role in The River Wild opposite Meryl Streep. He described the film to Chase in Cosmopolitan as a "grueling shoot," in which "every one of us fell out of the boat at one point or another and had to be saved."

His next film, Murder in the First, earned him the Broadcast Film Critic's Association Award in 1995, the same year that he starred in the blockbuster hit Apollo 13.

Bacon reverted to his trademark dark role once again in Sleepers in 1996. This role was in stark contrast to his appearance in the lighthearted romantic comedy, Picture Perfect the following year. Bacon again resurrected his oddball mystique that year as a mentally-challenged houseguest in Digging to China, and as a disc jockey corrupted by payola in Telling Lies in America. As the executive producer of 1998's Wild Things, Bacon reserved a supporting role for himself, and went on to star in Stir of Echoes (directed by David Koepp) in 1999, and in Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man in 2000.

Bacon, Colin Firth and Rachel Blanchard depict a ménage à trois in their film, Where the Truth Lies. Bacon and director Atom Egoyan have condemned the MPAA ratings board decision to give the film their "NC-17" rating over the preferable "R". Bacon decried the decision, commenting: "I don't get it, when I see films (that) are extremely violent, extremely objectionable sometimes in terms of the roles that women play, slide by with an R, no problem, because the people happen to have more of their clothes on."^[8] Bacon was again acclaimed for a dark starring role playing an offending pedophile on parole in the 2004 film The Woodsman; he was nominated best actor receiving the Independent Spirit Award.

Bacon speaking before a premiere of Taking Chance in February 2009

He appeared in the HBO Films production of Taking Chance, a film based on a story of the same name written by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl, an American 'Desert Storm' war veteran. The film premiered on HBO on February 21, 2009. Bacon won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for his role.

On July 15, 2010, it was confirmed that Bacon would appear in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class.^[9] His character was mutant villain Sebastian Shaw.^[10]

In March 2012, Bacon was featured in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, '8' — a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage — as Attorney Charles J. Cooper.^[11] The production was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and broadcast on YouTube to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights.^[12][13]

Personal life[link]

Bacon has been married to actress Kyra Sedgwick since September 4, 1988; they met on the set of the PBS version of Lanford Wilson's play Lemon Sky. He has said "The time I was hitting what I considered to be bottom was also the time I met my wife, our kids were born, good things were happening. And I was able to keep supporting myself; that always gave me strength."^[4]

Bacon and Sedgwick have starred together in Pyrates, Murder in the First, The Woodsman, and Loverboy. They have two children, Travis Sedgwick Bacon (born June 23, 1989 in Los Angeles, California) and Sosie Ruth Bacon (born March 15, 1992). The family resides on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Bacon has spoken out for the separation of church and state,^[14][15] and told The Times of London in 2005 that he did not "believe in God."^[16] However, he has also said that he is not anti-religion.^[17]

Bacon and Sedgwick appeared in will.i.am's video "It's a New Day", which was released following Barack Obama's 2008 presidential win.

Bacon and Sedgwick lost an undisclosed amount of money in the Ponzi scheme of infamous fraudulent investor Bernard Madoff.^[18][19]

Bacon and Sedgwick learned in 2011 via their appearance on the PBS TV show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates that he and Sedgwick are 10th cousins, once removed.^[20]

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon[link]

Bacon is the subject of the trivia game titled Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, based on the idea that, due to his prolific screen career covering a diverse range of genres, any Hollywood actor can be linked to another in a handful of steps based on their associations with Bacon. The name of the game derives from the idea of six degrees of separation.

Though he was initially dismayed by the game, the meme stuck, and Bacon eventually embraced it, forming the charitable initiative SixDegrees.org, a social networking site intended to link people and charities to each other.^[21]

The measure of proximity to Bacon has been mathematically formalized as the Bacon Index and can be referenced at websites including Oracle Of Bacon which is in turn based upon Internet Movie Database data.

Music[link]

Kevin formed a band called The Bacon Brothers with his brother, Michael. The duo has released six albums.

Filmography[link]

Films[link]

Television[link]

Directing:

• The Closer (2006) (Episode: Serving the King: Part 2)
• The Closer (2007) (Episode: Blindsided)
• The Closer (2008) (Episode: Sudden Death)
• The Closer (2009) (Episode: Waivers of Extradition)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kevin Bacon

• Kevin Bacon at the Internet Movie Database
• Kevin Bacon at the Internet Broadway Database
• Kevin Bacon at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Kevin Bacon at AllRovi
• Works by or about Kevin Bacon in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Oracle of Bacon

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Garrett Hedlund
Hedlund at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego
Born	Garrett John Hedlund (1984-09-03) September 3, 1984 (age 27) Roseau, Minnesota, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2004–present

Garrett John Hedlund (born September 3, 1984) is an American actor known for his roles in the films Friday Night Lights, Four Brothers, Eragon, Country Strong, for his role as Patroclus in the movie Troy and as Sam Flynn in the film Tron: Legacy.

Early life[link]

Hedlund was born in Roseau, Minnesota, the son of Kristine Anne (née Yanish) and Robert Martin Hedlund.^[1] He has an older brother, Nathaniel, and an older sister, Amanda. He also has a step brother, Cody and a step sister, Jennifer, and one niece. Hedlund was raised on a remote beef cattle farm near the small town of Wannaska, Minnesota.^[2][3] At fourteen, he moved with his mother to Scottsdale, Arizona. Once he arrived in Arizona, he paid to attend a talent convention with a scouting company called Pro Scout, where he was signed by a talent agency.^[2] After graduating from high school, he immediately moved in 2003 to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.^[4] Garrett is of Swedish descent, hence the surname Hedlund.

Career[link]

His first role was as Patroclus in Troy. The film, which starred Brad Pitt, was released May 14, 2004. He also starred as Don Billingsley in the 2004 drama film Friday Night Lights in which Tim McGraw played his abusive father.

He starred as Jack Mercer alongside Mark Wahlberg in the action/crime film Four Brothers. He next appeared in the film Eragon in a supporting role as Murtagh. In 2007, he starred in the Garry Marshall-directed comedy-drama Georgia Rule, alongside Lindsay Lohan and Jane Fonda. The film, which was released May 11, 2007, was negatively received by critics and failed to surpass box office expectations, only making a lifetime gross of $41 million. He also starred in Death Sentence opposite Kevin Bacon.

In 2010, he played a leading role alongside Jeff Bridges in Tron: Legacy, a sequel to the 1982 film Tron.^[5] The film was released on December 17, 2010.

Hedlund also co-starred with Gwyneth Paltrow, Leighton Meester and reunited with country singer/musician Tim McGraw in the country music drama Country Strong; which was released on January 7, 2011. For this film, he recorded several songs among which "Chances Are", which appeared on Country Strong: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. His performance was well-received by critics; noting voice similarities between him and Charlie Robison, Roughstock said "the best song on this album belongs to him" and Country Weekly wrote that of all the songs performed by actors in this film, his was "the most convincing".^[6][7] Six other songs including a duet with Leighton Meester were featured on a second soundtrack titled Country Strong: More Music from the Motion Picture.

He will next appear as Dean Moriarty in the movie of the Jack Kerouac novel On the Road, directed by Walter Salles. The film is scheduled to be released in 2012.

Personal life[link]

Hedlund lives in a Los Angeles apartment bought with an advance paycheck from his first movie, Troy. During press for Country Strong, Hedlund revealed that he was looking to buy a property in the Nashville area.

Filmography[link]

Discography[link]

Chart history[link]

Hedlund's duet with Meester—"Give In to Me"— was the only song to chart as a single, reaching #79 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #96 on the Canadian Hot 100.

Awards and nominations[link]

• On June 8, 2011 Hedlund was named Man of the Year at the Glamour Awards.^[9]

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Garrett Hedlund at the Internet Movie Database

Jagtar Singh Hawara(Punjabi:ਜਗਤਾਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਹਵਾਰਾ ), is a member of Babbar Khalsa.^[1] Babbar Khalsa^[2] . Jagtar Singh Hawara is considered a freedom fighter among the supporters of the Khalistan movement. He is a Jatt of Bhangoo (bhangu) clan and belongs to Hawara village in Ludhiana.^[3] His father died in 1991. His mother's name is Narinder Kaur. He is alleged to have a role in the assassination of the Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh. He was accused of the murder of a granthi (Sikh priest) of Muktsar at the age of 15 but was later acquitted.^[4][5] Hawara came back into limelight, in 2004, when he escaped from maximum security jail at Burail, along with 2 other Sikh prisoners by digging a 90 feet tunnel by bare hands ^[6] (Jagtar Singh Tara & Paramjit Singh Bheora), the third one was a cook.^[7][8]

Attack on Hawara in the court (11 November 2011)[link]

Jagtar Singh Hawara (Tara) was attacked by the members of the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Suraksha Samiti. The attack occurred around 11 am while Hawara and the other convicted assassin Paramjit Singh Bheora were being escorted by a posse of the Chandigarh and Delhi police to the courtroom in connection with a Burail jailbreak case. Both convicts had been specially brought here from the Tihar Jail in New Delhi.

Eye witnesses said just as Hawara crossed the entry gate of the court complex, Nishant Sharma, an Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Suraksha Samiti (ABHSS) activist, tried to reach him and hit him but Hawara saw him coming and before Nishant Sharma could take any action Hawara responded by slapping Sharma. The police immediately arrested Sharma and three other ABHSS activists.

The incident was followed by Hawara and Bheora raising pro-Khalistan slogans and the ABHSS members raising pro-Hindu slogans.

Following the attack, a large police contingent was deployed on the court premises.

Both Hawara and Bheora were then taken to the courtroom where DSP Jagbir Singh and Sub-Inspector Surinder Kumar, both from the Chandigarh Police, recorded their statements.

• Read Rare Interview with Jagtar Singh Hawara by Karamjeet Singh Chandigarh (Former Assistant Editor, Punjabi Tribune)

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