Beauty and the beast Nov 2, 2009
Caroline Byrne (Cariba Heine) with Gordon Wood (Davod Lyons) and Tony Byrne (Garry McDonald) ... Even after Gordon Wood's conviction, certain details of Caroline Byrne's murder remain mysterious ... "We were committed to telling the story regardless of the verdict. I was determined to approach the people and the subject matter as even-handedly as we could. "Although it may not feel as if we've given Gordon Wood a fair shake, that's because he was condemned by his own mouth and his own actions... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A motive for murder Nov 2, 2009
" To add to the realism, producers of the telemovie filmed as much of Byrne's story in the locations where the actual events took place. From Kings Cross cafes to The Gap, where the murder took place, the cameras were placed as close to the action as they could be. "When we were at The Gap, they were filming through the same window one of the witnesses used when he saw the fight [between Byrne and her accused boyfriend Gordon Wood]," Heine says. "There were some restaurant owners in the street,... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Backward Glances Oct 29, 2009
The place (later known as The Maples) attracted many bathers that summer, including 152 on a single day Newly-registered voters included: W. Haczynski, Charles Charbonneau, Adam Mancini, Gordon Wood, George Tracy, Manuel Moitozo and Helen MacDonald Hudson poet Clara Belle Gleason was honored at a birthday party Henry Ricker joined the staff of the Hudson National Bank The Dutch Girls orchestra, which played at the First Federated Church social, included Dorothy Poplin, Sarah Wilcox, Ruth Peel,... (Hudson Sun, MA)
The not-so-quiet achiever Oct 24, 2009
During the trial last year of Rivkin's former driver, Gordon Wood who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend Caroline Byrne by throwing her from the top of the Gap the jury heard that a possible motive was Wood's fear that she might disclose the "serious, illegal insider trading activity" that Wood and Rivkin had engaged in over the Offset Alpine shares. The printing company had been over-insured when it burnt down on Christmas Eve 1993 but when word got out that the insurer was going... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Gong scandal from the inside Oct 23, 2009
A reader makes the point that there was ample evidence of Richo's diarising during his last big day out in public to give evidence in the murder trial of Gordon Wood last year. Wood had given evidence that he had driven his then boss Rene Rivkin and Richardson to lunch in East Sydney on June 7, 1995. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Constitutional Aesthetics Jul 18, 2009
Gordon Wood reviews a new work on the origins of American Constitutionalism, one that uses a literary and aesthetic lens: The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution. Constitutional Aesthetics. (The American Conservative)
The Supreme Court on Trial Jul 7, 2009
His signature interest is leadership, which he has been writing about for half a century (including prize-winning books about FDR and JFK), and "he has developed a particular fascination with what he believes is the power of extraordinary political leaders at crucial moments to transcend and transform the impersonal forces of history," as historian Gordon Wood puts it. In this new book, he has turned his attention for the first time from Congress and the president to the Supreme Court, and you... (Slate)
Revolutionary Characters Jul 4, 2009
For Independence Day, I thought I would re-present my review of Gordon Wood s. a book I highly recommend. (The American Conservative)
Sexy, cool magic Jun 26, 2009
He is currently working on a script about the Gordon Wood trial. For another project, he met a crime contact at the same Melbourne deli in which Des Moran was shot just a short time later. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Nelson's script for a new life Mar 20, 2009
The criminal defence barrister Winston Terracini, SC - fresh from defending Gap murderer Gordon Wood - and celebrity lawyer/day trader Chris Murphy will lend support to Light Sweet Crude, by a former TV reporter, Libby-Jane Charleston. Page. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Full story..... Mar 5, 2009
And I ve had real conversations with significant people, among them Lyndon Johnson, Bill Clinton, George Bush the younger (when he was a baseball owner and when he was a governor), Willie, Darrell Royal, Troy Aikman, the original Dixie Chicks, Ann Richards, Gordon Wood and Clayton Williams. But, as my grandma used to say, I m here to tell ya that I ve never had more fun that I did last weekend bouncing around the Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Trappings. (Alpine Avalanche, TX)
Battie Aussie lord short a few quid Feb 21, 2009
Has Gordon Wood changed his name. The former chauffeur to the disgraced stockbroker Rene Rivkin is cooling his heels in jail in Goulburn, sentenced to 13 years for throwing his girlfriend Caroline Byrne to her death at The Gap in June 1995. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
