Turns out the creepy real-estate heir wasn't jinxed after all. Read HERE.
Showing posts with label Robert Durst. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Durst. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Thursday, April 02, 2015
A Little Bit More About the (Elusive) Second Mrs. Robert Durst
This New York Times article on the elusive second Mrs. Durst certainly left me wanting more (she declined to be interviewed for it). Luckily, a friend in library mode did come up with this after reading the piece:
So much good stuff in there. She acted like she couldn't possibly recall how long they had been married, when it was just a year before all the Galveston mess went down?! But that did mean the power of attorney stuff was relatively recent, which explains why she was so concerned that it might be called into question if his defense was that he'd been nuts for the past year. I didn't have luck with LexisNexis on finding that 80s "Money Dearest" article mentioned (in my defense, I already had journals & articles databases via NYU open in another tab, ha); the only hits were the NYT piece or syndication of same. Pretty curious about it, since apparently it profiled her as being a pushy, avaricious minx or something. She'd also not spoken to her son for almost his entire childhood and adolescence -- I wonder why she lost custody, especially since it was almost always the mother by default in those days, I'd thought -- but apparently they run a real estate firm together now (using $20 MILL of Durst's money!). Mom made up for lost time and then some. I googled out of curiosity;
her son is one of those guys who seems pretty good-looking in a photo, but the longer you stare at it, the less attractive he turns out to be, ha.
Oh, and I noticed she's been shacking up with that other guy since 2010. Isn't that when Jarecki's "biopic" film came out? Maybe she got annoyed that the scrutiny was going to start all over again. Or maybe she was just annoyed that Durst didn't look enough like Ryan Gosling for her, after all....
Lastly, she and [Caroline] Wozniacki are neighbors in Union Square.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Rage Against the Outrage Machine
Via NYT:
The filmmakers, Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling, had seemingly managed to elicit a confession from Mr. Durst, who had been connected to three murders over three decades. But with this cinematic coup came questions. When had the filmmakers shared their most incriminating discoveries with law enforcement officials? Had justice been delayed — and a suspected murderer allowed to remain free — for the sake of their story? Could the climactic grand finale of “The Jinx” ultimately become fodder for Mr. Durst’s defense team?While I see what many are getting at with this line of questioning, where the f**k is the outrage at three police departments and one prosecutor's office for the complete bungling of the murder investigations of three families' loved ones? For 30 years no one bothered to check with the doorman at the Dursts' Manhattan apartment to see if Kathie really was seen coming home that night -- everyone just took it at face value when Durst's rep said she had? No one ever pressed Susan Berman's "step" children for her personal effects or potentially relevant material? Prosecutors in Galveston couldn't make the effort to come up with a motive or logical explanation to explain the crime? (And did anyone bother to file charges for abuse of a corpse? Sure, they acquitted him on murder charges, but it's not illegal in Texas to DISMEMBER A DEAD BODY -- or did I miss that?)
I just find it so typical that when some people actually do their job well, they're the ones who end up getting criticized. As much as it pains me to say it, I agree with Jeanine Pirro when she tells it like it:
Kudos goes to Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling. I mean, their tenacity and their determination and their wit and intelligence in moving this case forward is really unparalleled.If only she were saying this about the authorities in New York, L.A. or Galveston.
Sure, the two ideas are not mutually exclusive. But after 15-30 years of waiting, I'm sure the families are more than pleased with the way Jarecki and Smerling went about it. And if they had done one thing differently, how do we know it would have turned out like it did?
Monday, March 16, 2015
Ryan Gosling Slays in Tighty Whities
Besides possible closure and justice for three aching families, the other good thing to come out of Andrew Jarecki's stunning documentary, "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," is discovering that he had previously directed a little-seen fictional account of the story, which starred Ryan Gosling as the creepy real estate scion. If you've seen Bob then you know this was most generous casting ... apparently money can buy just about anything!
More pics HERE.
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Sunday, March 15, 2015
#RobertDurst #KilledThemAll #OfCourse
I've been raving about Andrew Jarecki's latest documentary, "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," and now that its jaw-dropping conclusion has aired, all I can add is this: If you thought "The Jinx" was good, Jarecki's 2003 film, "Capturing the Friedmans" -- save for the last three minutes of Sunday night's conclusion -- is even better. It's streaming now on HuluPlus and no, I'm not getting a kickback. #JustGiveHimTheEmmyNow
The funniest thing about "The Jinx" is that if it had been fictional, viewers would have hated how it ended because it was too far-fetched! My brother, however, remains disgruntled because they neglected to cover the time Bob got arrested for peeing on a candy rack at CVS, which his lawyers blamed on Asperger's syndrome!
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