John Hinckley Jr.’s planned Brooklyn concert was actually the third stop on his so-called Redemption Tour to cancel, says the singer-songrwriter who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
“I’ve had 3 concerts cancelled – Chicago, Connecticut and now Brooklyn,” Hinckley tweeted this afternoon. “The promoter is looking for another venue.”
Concerts at Chicago’s Logan Square Auditorium, which had been planned for July 23, and a New Year’s Eve concert at the Space Ballroom in Hamden, Connecticut, apparently were canceled prior to the announcement by the Brooklyn venue Market Hotel yesterday.
In an email sent by the Market Hotel to ticketholders yesterday, the venue said that Scenic Events NYC, Hinckley’s promoter, was seeking a replacement venue for the concert. “If a new location is secured, you will be contacted via this email address in advance of the date, with the new location information,” the message states. “If the...
“I’ve had 3 concerts cancelled – Chicago, Connecticut and now Brooklyn,” Hinckley tweeted this afternoon. “The promoter is looking for another venue.”
Concerts at Chicago’s Logan Square Auditorium, which had been planned for July 23, and a New Year’s Eve concert at the Space Ballroom in Hamden, Connecticut, apparently were canceled prior to the announcement by the Brooklyn venue Market Hotel yesterday.
In an email sent by the Market Hotel to ticketholders yesterday, the venue said that Scenic Events NYC, Hinckley’s promoter, was seeking a replacement venue for the concert. “If a new location is secured, you will be contacted via this email address in advance of the date, with the new location information,” the message states. “If the...
- 6/16/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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John Hinckley Jr., who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was freed from court oversight Wednesday, officially concluding decades of supervision by legal and mental health professionals.
“After 41 years 2 months and 15 days, Freedom At Last!!!,” he wrote on Twitter shortly after 12 p.m.
The lifting of all restrictions had been expected since late September. U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman in Washington said he’d free Hinckley on June 15 if he continued to remain mentally stable in the community in Virginia where he has lived since 2016.
Hinckley, who was acquitted by reason of insanity, spent the decades before that in a Washington mental hospital.
Hinckley’s restrictions were gradually loosened over the years, including the lifting of limits on his social media use. Hinckley’s following on social media has grown to nearly 30,000 followers on Twitter and YouTube over the past several months.
John Hinckley Jr., who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was freed from court oversight Wednesday, officially concluding decades of supervision by legal and mental health professionals.
“After 41 years 2 months and 15 days, Freedom At Last!!!,” he wrote on Twitter shortly after 12 p.m.
The lifting of all restrictions had been expected since late September. U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman in Washington said he’d free Hinckley on June 15 if he continued to remain mentally stable in the community in Virginia where he has lived since 2016.
Hinckley, who was acquitted by reason of insanity, spent the decades before that in a Washington mental hospital.
Hinckley’s restrictions were gradually loosened over the years, including the lifting of limits on his social media use. Hinckley’s following on social media has grown to nearly 30,000 followers on Twitter and YouTube over the past several months.
- 6/15/2022
- by Associated Pres
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A federal judge has confirmed that Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin, John Hinckley, Jr., will receive a full unconditional release from prison on June 15.
U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman announced last September that he would grant Hinckley an unconditional release this month, so long as he continued to exhibit good behavior. Friedman confirmed that decision at a hearing Wednesday, June 1, per Fox News.
Prior to the hearing, U.S. prosecutors said in a filing that they believed Hinckley had benefited from mental health treatment and that he...
U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman announced last September that he would grant Hinckley an unconditional release this month, so long as he continued to exhibit good behavior. Friedman confirmed that decision at a hearing Wednesday, June 1, per Fox News.
Prior to the hearing, U.S. prosecutors said in a filing that they believed Hinckley had benefited from mental health treatment and that he...
- 6/1/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot Ronald Reagan four decades ago, is to be freed from all remaining restrictions if he continues to follow rules and exhibits no signs of mental illness. U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman said he would be issuing a plan later this week. “If he hadn’t tried to […]
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- 9/30/2021
- by XY Zhou
- Uinterview
Prosecutors strongly objected to John Hinckley Jr.'s release from a psychiatric hospital due to the fact he lied about his whereabouts multiple times when he was temporarily released in recent years. Federal Judge Paul Friedman wrote a 103 page opinion when he signed off on Hinckley's release -- and in the docs he says the government pushed for more restrictions and protective measures for President Reagan's would-be killer. The government pointed out that when...
- 7/28/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
John Hinckley Jr., who tried to kill President Ronald Reagan, is set to be released from the mental hospital where he has been held for decades. A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Hinckley will be released and allowed to return home to live with his mother in Williamsburg, Va. “Mr. Hinckley shall abide by all laws, shall not consume alcohol, illegal drugs… shall not possess any firearm, weapon, or ammunition and shall not be arrested for cause,” Senior U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said, per NPR. Also Read: Tim Matheson, Cynthia Nixon to Play Ronald and Nancy Reagan...
- 7/27/2016
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
President Reagan's attempted assassin will be a free man again after a federal judge signed off on John Hinckley Jr.'s release from a psychiatric hospital. Hinckley was found not guilty by insanity for the the 1981 shooting that left Reagan with a chest injury. His press secretary, James Brady, was paralyzed ... a Secret Service agent, and a cop were also hit. Hinckley has been in a psychiatric hospital since his trial. Wednesday morning Judge...
- 7/27/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
A top NBC News executive said Wednesday the network is not considering replacing Matt Lauer as anchor of the Today show despite reports that Anderson Cooper of CNN was approached about the job.
”Matt Lauer is the best in the business,” said Alex Wallace, a NBC News executive who oversees the Today show. “We want him in the Today show anchor chair for many years to come.”
Wallace spoke after reports of a meeting with Cooper first appeared in Deadline Hollywood. The report was confirmed to The Associated Press by a source who spoke on condition of anonymity because the...
”Matt Lauer is the best in the business,” said Alex Wallace, a NBC News executive who oversees the Today show. “We want him in the Today show anchor chair for many years to come.”
Wallace spoke after reports of a meeting with Cooper first appeared in Deadline Hollywood. The report was confirmed to The Associated Press by a source who spoke on condition of anonymity because the...
- 3/27/2013
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside TV
Is Chuck Shurley god? The jury is still out on that Supernatural question. And by Supernatural, yes, I do mean the hit CW series. What isn’t supernatural is Chuck’s new role. Well, Chuck isn’t playing anyone. He’s fictitious. But the actor who plays him, one Rob Benedict, is now headed to the set of The Mentalist on CBS.
You know you want to say it. He lives!
According to EW Benedict has landed the guest role of Paul Friedman, an adjunct college professor and PhD candidate who seems to be dedicated to the sciences. Friedman works at the same lab as did a recent murder victim. So, you can imagine that the Cbi will have some questions for him during their investigation.
The episode, where Benedict puts in his guest appearance is titled “Red in Tooth and Claw,” and it will premier in mid-February.
Supernatural fans...
You know you want to say it. He lives!
According to EW Benedict has landed the guest role of Paul Friedman, an adjunct college professor and PhD candidate who seems to be dedicated to the sciences. Friedman works at the same lab as did a recent murder victim. So, you can imagine that the Cbi will have some questions for him during their investigation.
The episode, where Benedict puts in his guest appearance is titled “Red in Tooth and Claw,” and it will premier in mid-February.
Supernatural fans...
- 12/17/2012
- by Sasha Nova
- Boomtron
Supernatural's Rob Benedict has been cast on The Mentalist. The actor - who played Chuck on Supernatural - will play a professor on the CBS crime procedural, Entertainment Weekly reports. Benedict's character Paul Friedman will cross paths with Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) and the Cbi team when a student is murdered in his lab. In addition to his Supernatural role, 42-year-old Benedict has recently appeared on Touch, Psych and NCIS: Los Angeles.He also played a recurring role on Keri (more)...
- 12/14/2012
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
Chuck is being resurrected…on The Mentalist!
Rob Benedict, who recurred on CW’s Supernatural as author/prophet(/possibly God) Chuck Shurley, has scored a guest spot on CBS’s The Mentalist. He will play Paul Friedman, an adjunct professor and PhD candidate who works in the same lab where a student was murdered.
The episode, titled “Red in Tooth and Claw,” will air in mid-February on CBS.
Benedict, who last appeared on Supernatural in season 5, has most recently appeared on NCIS: La, Shameless, and Psych.
Read more:
‘Person of Interest’ midseason finale preview: Finch flirts with danger — Exclusive...
Rob Benedict, who recurred on CW’s Supernatural as author/prophet(/possibly God) Chuck Shurley, has scored a guest spot on CBS’s The Mentalist. He will play Paul Friedman, an adjunct professor and PhD candidate who works in the same lab where a student was murdered.
The episode, titled “Red in Tooth and Claw,” will air in mid-February on CBS.
Benedict, who last appeared on Supernatural in season 5, has most recently appeared on NCIS: La, Shameless, and Psych.
Read more:
‘Person of Interest’ midseason finale preview: Finch flirts with danger — Exclusive...
- 12/14/2012
- by Sandra Gonzalez
- EW - Inside TV
After a 16-month stint, David Friedman has become the latest executive producer to depart CBS' low-rated Early Show. The move comes after Friedman's complete anchor overhaul in January failed to produce any ratings gain for the morning show, which has been mired in third place. It also follows February's shakeup at CBS News that handed the reins to Jeff Fager and nm2504832 autoDavid Rhodes[/link] and Rhodes' email last month, which blasted the Early Show team for poor news judgment because they didn't cover big stories broken by CBS News the night before. Earlier today, Fager and Rhodes said they "intend to help (Friedman) find the right place at CBS or elsewhere." Friedman's departure comes 3 months after his father, Paul Friedman, departed CBS News. According to Nyt, Friedman will be succeed at the Early Show by Chris Licht, executive producer of MSNBC's Morning Joe.
- 5/9/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
New York -- Barack Obama's decision to accept the Democratic nomination at a Denver football stadium instead of a convention center throws a wrench into the networks' coverage plans.
No network has finalized its plans for covering the Democratic National Convention in August or the Gop's event in early September in St. Paul, Minn. But the networks have budgeted millions of dollars, from transporting anchors and staff both cities to the costs of cameras and cables and dozens of other line items. The decision, announced Monday, to move Obama's acceptance speech from the 19,000-seat Pepsi Center to the 76,000-seat Invesco Field has upended what the networks had thought was the plan with less than two months to go.
"It's going to cost us all more than we budgeted, and we'll have to figure out how to handle it," CBS News senior vp Paul Friedman said.
Early steps were made Monday, when the networks had a conference call to decide what to do. Fox News Channel previously had been selected to handle the pool coverage, and that won't change. Marty Ryan, executive producer of political coverage at Fox News, said some resources originally earmarked for the venue over four days will move to Invesco for the convention's final day.
"It's just a question of how big in each place," Ryan said. "That we're still resolving."
But what's certain is that the networks will have to spend millions more in total to cover the Democratic convention, and they already are over budget.
Covering the political conventions has grown less important to the broadcast networks, which no longer provide the gavel-to-gavel coverage they did years ago. That's been supplanted mostly by cable coverage, with ABC, CBS and NBC devoting about an hour a night Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before the nominee's acceptance speech Thursday. The networks say the conventions are, for the most part, not news. There isn't a lot of suspense with the nominations locked up long ago.
"Certainly for the networks, it's going to raise the issue as to whether we really need to do Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday," Friedman said. "It's the kind of is?sue we've all danced around: How much convention coverage is necessary when there are no news developments?"
That doesn't mean that there won't be any coverage or even a major cut on the broadcast nets. Nothing's been decided, though the feeling before Monday was that the nets would have an hour a night with their anchors there all four days. Each network will have access to the pool coverage and, for instance, could cover key speeches not with their anchors on site but from the desk in New York. With the cost of building a set at the Pepsi Center about $600,000 and faced with the prospect of building another set at Invesco, it may not be the best choice for the broadcast networks to build two sets.
"The change in the schedule and venue have called into question our planning so far," ABC News spokeswoman Emily Lenzner said. "And because of the change in circumstances we're now taking a fresh look at everything, which takes time and more planning."
Said CBS News' Friedman: "Any news operation that didn't look at it hard would be irresponsible." But he said there would be no doubt that the networks would be there in force for Obama's speech, whether it was held indoors or out.
"That's going to be an historic night," Friedman said. "It's going to be worth covering, and you want your anchor there."
Fox News and MSNBC were planning to center their shows and coverage outside of the arena as it was; CNN Washington bureau chief David Bohrman said his network will be well served by its election bus that has traveled the country during the primary season and has four high-definition cameras aboard.
"All we're going to need to do is get our bus two miles away from Pepsi to Invesco," he said.
So far there are no changes to the Republican National Convention, which will be held Sept. 1-5, beginning three days after the Democratic convention ends. The cost of the coverage of that convention apparently is coming in under budget, but for fairness reasons, if the coverage of the Democrats is altered then it's likely that the broadcast nets will do the same for the Republicans.
"That's the next set of questions," one exec said. "We're all going to be sensitive to that."
Brooks Boliek in Washington contributed to this report.
No network has finalized its plans for covering the Democratic National Convention in August or the Gop's event in early September in St. Paul, Minn. But the networks have budgeted millions of dollars, from transporting anchors and staff both cities to the costs of cameras and cables and dozens of other line items. The decision, announced Monday, to move Obama's acceptance speech from the 19,000-seat Pepsi Center to the 76,000-seat Invesco Field has upended what the networks had thought was the plan with less than two months to go.
"It's going to cost us all more than we budgeted, and we'll have to figure out how to handle it," CBS News senior vp Paul Friedman said.
Early steps were made Monday, when the networks had a conference call to decide what to do. Fox News Channel previously had been selected to handle the pool coverage, and that won't change. Marty Ryan, executive producer of political coverage at Fox News, said some resources originally earmarked for the venue over four days will move to Invesco for the convention's final day.
"It's just a question of how big in each place," Ryan said. "That we're still resolving."
But what's certain is that the networks will have to spend millions more in total to cover the Democratic convention, and they already are over budget.
Covering the political conventions has grown less important to the broadcast networks, which no longer provide the gavel-to-gavel coverage they did years ago. That's been supplanted mostly by cable coverage, with ABC, CBS and NBC devoting about an hour a night Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before the nominee's acceptance speech Thursday. The networks say the conventions are, for the most part, not news. There isn't a lot of suspense with the nominations locked up long ago.
"Certainly for the networks, it's going to raise the issue as to whether we really need to do Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday," Friedman said. "It's the kind of is?sue we've all danced around: How much convention coverage is necessary when there are no news developments?"
That doesn't mean that there won't be any coverage or even a major cut on the broadcast nets. Nothing's been decided, though the feeling before Monday was that the nets would have an hour a night with their anchors there all four days. Each network will have access to the pool coverage and, for instance, could cover key speeches not with their anchors on site but from the desk in New York. With the cost of building a set at the Pepsi Center about $600,000 and faced with the prospect of building another set at Invesco, it may not be the best choice for the broadcast networks to build two sets.
"The change in the schedule and venue have called into question our planning so far," ABC News spokeswoman Emily Lenzner said. "And because of the change in circumstances we're now taking a fresh look at everything, which takes time and more planning."
Said CBS News' Friedman: "Any news operation that didn't look at it hard would be irresponsible." But he said there would be no doubt that the networks would be there in force for Obama's speech, whether it was held indoors or out.
"That's going to be an historic night," Friedman said. "It's going to be worth covering, and you want your anchor there."
Fox News and MSNBC were planning to center their shows and coverage outside of the arena as it was; CNN Washington bureau chief David Bohrman said his network will be well served by its election bus that has traveled the country during the primary season and has four high-definition cameras aboard.
"All we're going to need to do is get our bus two miles away from Pepsi to Invesco," he said.
So far there are no changes to the Republican National Convention, which will be held Sept. 1-5, beginning three days after the Democratic convention ends. The cost of the coverage of that convention apparently is coming in under budget, but for fairness reasons, if the coverage of the Democrats is altered then it's likely that the broadcast nets will do the same for the Republicans.
"That's the next set of questions," one exec said. "We're all going to be sensitive to that."
Brooks Boliek in Washington contributed to this report.
- 7/8/2008
- by By Paul J. Gough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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