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Nearly four months after the tragic and unexpected death of oil heir Andrew Getty, his father, Gordon Getty, has filed to obtain money from his son's estate. Gordon, 82, filed a creditor's claim for $14.1 million, according to a claim obtained by People that was submitted to the Superior Court of California in L.A. Gordon, the son of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, claims he loaned his son upwards of $12.7 million throughout his life. Gordon, who negotiated the sale of his family's oil business to Texaco for more than $10 billion in 1984, also requested to regain ownership of 55 pieces of art, worth $1.1 million,...

The Killers

Written by Anthony Veiller

Directed by Robert Siodmak

USA, 1946

Written by Gene L. Coon

Directed by Don Siegel

USA, 1964

Ernest Hemingway’s 1927 short story, “The Killers,” inspired to varying degrees the 1946 and the 1964 screen versions of the same name. To varying degrees because the story is less than 3,000 words and essentially only covers the opening of the two films. A man—Ole “The Swede” Anderson (Burt Lancaster) in the first film, Johnny North (John Cassavetes) in the remake—is hunted down by two hired killers. Right before they shoot him, Ole and Johnny do something strange, or rather, they don’t do something they should: they don’t run, they don’t really move, they don’t even seem to care. Before Ole is killed, he admits he “did something wrong, once” (in film noir, that’s all it takes), and when Johnny is told two men are...

New York -- Martin Sheen shone a spotlight Monday on a prisoner's efforts to get his 1999 murder conviction thrown out, saying the case "cries out for justice."

Meeting inmate Jon-Adrian Velazquez at a suburban prison Monday "confirmed my belief that he is an innocent man," the actor said at a news conference later in the day outside a Manhattan courthouse. "I came away inspired. He is a young man on fire with the truth."

Sheen's appearance trained some star power on a case that involves a longstanding issue getting new attention from the U.S. Supreme Court: the reliability of eyewitness identifications of suspects.

Convicted of fatally shooting retired police officer Albert Ward in an underground betting parlor in 1998, Velazquez is serving 25 years to life in prison. But he and lawyers Robert C. Gottlieb and Celia A. Gordon are trying to persuade Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus. R. Vance Jr.

London, Aug17: One in five men has claimed to have fallen in love at first sight, with more than half of them saying they are smitten with a partner after only one meeting, according to a new survey.

Nearly three-quarters of men had lost their hearts within three dates.

In contrast, only one in 10 women said they had experienced love at first sight. Most waited until at least the sixth date before deciding whether or not they had found the 'real thing'.

Professor Alexander Gordon, a chartered psychologist and member of the British Psychological Society, was intrigued by the findings.