Lucy Lawless ’ legion of fans have watched her search for redemption as an ancient Greek warrior princess in Xena, deceive and seduce her way to power as Lucretia in Spartacus, witch her way through Salem as Countess Marburg, and hunt down Ash in Ash vs. the Evil Dead.
"That really, really bothered me as a child, and as a grown adult," Brown tells PEOPLE of being touched inappropriately before fighting back Bobby Brown is sharing things he never thought he would.
In contrast to the more historical and fantastic roles Lawless has played in the past, Alexa is “a modern urban woman who can wear elastic and use zips instead of being laced and hammered into an outfit every morning.”
During a festive reunion at Jack's house sometime later, Forrest drunkenly ambles to a frozen lake and falls into the freezing water. Although he drags himself out, he later dies of pneumonia, putting to rest the legend of his invincibility.
He puts one man's testicles in a jar as a present for Rakes. The young cripple Cricket is manhandled and has his neck broken for nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Herein lies the main problem with “Lawless.” Dramatically violent to the point of being disturbing, the film has plenty of scenes that make audience members squirm in their seats. At one point, Rakes pours a bucket of boiling tar over the Bondurant brothers' cousin and covers him in feathers in order to prove a point.
Novelist Matt Bondurant's family has taken its place in gangster lore with the recent release of “Lawless,” an independent film based on the true story of the “Bondurant Boys,” his grandfather Jack and great uncles Howard and Forrest Bondurant, brothers whose moonshine operation was so prolific reporters and federal ...
Cricket Pate (died 1931) was an associate of the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia during Prohibition.
James Forrest Bondurant (21 November 1901-4 December 1965) was an American Prohibition-era gangster and one of the three Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia. He was the gang's de facto leader during the 1930s, despite being the middle brother.
Tarring and feathering is a form of public torture and punishment used to enforce unofficial justice or revenge. It was used in feudal Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, as well as the early American frontier, mostly as a type of mob vengeance.
As a final indignity, the mob chases/parades the victim through the streets. Tarring and feathering was never a legal form of punishment, but citizens frequently used it as a form of vigilante justice.
Although rarely fatal, victims of tarring and feathering attacks were not only humiliated by being held down, shaved, stripped naked and covered in a boiled sticky substance and feathers, but their skin often became burned and blistered or peeled off when solvents were used to remove the remnants.
Fast forward 80 years, Jack Bondurant's grandson, Robert, has taken over the family tradition. But this time it's being done legally. Robert revived the family business and is now based out of Mecklenburg County, Virginia.
The other is Charlie Rakes. In real life, Rakes was a Franklin County deputy sheriff involved with another officer in a shoot-out at a road block. Rakes, in the movie, turned out to be a federal ATF officer sent from Chicago to crush the local moonshine profession.
While the actor who plays Cricket loses himself seamlessly in the role, viewers may still get the sense that they've seen him somewhere before. They'd be right. The actor is Dane DeHaan, a veteran of both stage and screen who has earned rave reviews for his impressive range of performances.
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,
“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
And the Lord showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan, all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, the Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; ...