shield for murder is a 1954 film noir crime film co-directed by and starring edmond o'brien as a crooked police detective .

it was based on the novel of the same name by william p. mcgivern .

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' shield ' actor convicted of murder in killing of wife verdict in trial of michael jace of ' the shield ' came after a week - long trial . check out this story on urltoken urltoken
update with prison sentence the shield actor michael jace was sentenced to 40 years to life today in a los angeles court for the murder of his wife april jace two years ago .
an affidavit for 17 - year - old brooke higgins , who pleaded guilty last month to solicitation to commit murder and conspiracy to commit murder , was released friday .
verdict in trial of michael jace of ' the shield ' came after a week - long trial .
shield . for murder . is always damned with . faint . praise . but . i find it a very entertaining . movie . and paul . dunlap ' s . excellent . music . score . is . . .
the murder of curtis lemansky marked the beginning of the end for the strike team . they soon began spiraling toward their eventual demise .
michael jace , who played a police officer on ' the shield , ' in court in los angeles on may 31 , 2016 .
actor michael jace , right , was convicted of second - degree murder in the 2014 fatal shooting of his wife , april . jace appeared in several movies and was a regular on the hit fx show
the shield .
the murder of rapper tupac shakur remains unsolved . shakur was shot and killed in las vegas in september 1996 .
the editor of an exploitation newspaper commits a murder and assigns his protégé to investigate hoping to divert attention away from himself .
after a brain - damaged man confesses to murder and is committed , dr . ann lorrison tries to prove his innocence .
at this moment , the motive of the murder is believed to be domestic violence ,
a police statement said .
michael jace , who played a los angeles cop in tv ' s
the shield ,
has been arrested in the fatal shooting of his wife , police said tuesday .
previous actor michael jace has been found guilty of second - degree murder in connection with the shooting death of his wife two years ago . jace , who played a cop on 89 episodes of fx’s the shield , will be sentenced on june . 10 . he faces up to 40 years in prison .
in march , after the murder of his colleague , valdez tweeted : “let them kill us all , if that is the death sentence for reporting this hell . no to silence . ”
jones was taken into custody immediately following her interview on preliminary charges of murder and robbery . on monday , prosecutors filed formal charges of murder and robbery against her and broadus , who also faces a misdemeanor count of carrying a handgun without a license .
the cory vallee murder trial has offered a fascinating glimpse into the violent world of the notorious united nations gang and its targets .
former ‘united nations’ gangster - turned - witness tells b . c . murder trial he was paid $ 300 , 000 by police
hearing delayed for teen in alleged school plot teen admits to plotting attack on colo . hs school plot : teen doesn ' t have to share records school murder plot suspect gets new lawyer 2nd teen in school murder plot charged as adult mountain vista suspect named targets in journal expert : mountain vista teen had many red flags
this production company has signed up to the protecting actors fringe charter , helping to ensure all cast and crew involved operate under safe and fair working conditions . protecting actors : shield : 10302
the remote arctic town of fortitude promises a home that is both peaceful and safe - promises which are shattered by a horrifying murder .
an fbi agent investigates the murder of his partner by taking over the 3 cases he was working on , determined to find his killer .
when 2 detectives steal $ 80 , 000 from a dead robber , one of them suffers from a guilty conscience which could lead to murder .
kavanaugh believed that vic killed lem and tried to frame him for lem ' s murder . however , kavanaugh ' s attempts to frame vic backfire as he is eventually exposed by dutch and claudette and sent to prison .
gun owners that purchase self - defense shield insurance through uscca are provided the benefit of alan ' s representation which provides no up - front out - of - pocket costs and many other necessary and critical defense benefits .
although i’ve had threats before , it is still disturbing that in canada , journalists can be at risk for violence or death just for doing our jobs .
according to the affidavit , broadus denied having anything to do with mckinely’s murder and said he didn’t “even know where brookside is , to be honest with you . ”
( cnn ) actor michael jace , who played a police officer on the hit fx drama
the shield ,
was convicted tuesday of shooting his wife at their los angeles home in front of the couple ' s two young sons .
eventually , vic finds out the truth about lem ' s murder after reaching to a conclusion that neither guardo nor antwon mitchell could have been involved in lem ' s murder . vic read a dossier on lem ' s murder put together by kavanaugh , revealing that , contrary to his earlier claims , shane was not followed the night lem died , which gives vic ample evidence , motive , and a time frame to accuse shane of the killing . vic called shane out at the same location where lem was killed .
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he said that after the leclair murder in february 2009 and the slaying of jonathan barber in may 2008 , he wrote anonymous comments suggesting the bacon brothers were behind the killings .
mad men develops impressively complex arcs for its ensemble cast , leading us through their successes and tragedies as they each fight for their place in the upper reaches of their industry .
movies and tv shows are certified fresh with a steady tomatometer of 75 % or higher after a set amount of reviews ( 80 for wide - release movies , 40 for limited - release movies , 20 for tv shows ) , including 5 reviews from top critics .
denver7 reporter molly hendrickson tells us a judge just unsealed an arrest affidavit for brooke higgins .
the first series stars matthew mcconaughey and woody harrelson as two mismatched cops investigating a ritualistic serial murder , and draws us into a beautiful landscape haunted by conspiracy and an unsettling hint of the supernatural .
rafferty didn’t tell anyone about geiger’s murder , but he did describe it in a poem dated august 16 , 2011 , that was later found on his hard drive . it was titled “midnight shift” :
, dorian is able to pursue his debauched activities knowing his respectable appearance and unblemished looks will shield him from accusations of depravity . his ability to have the best of both worlds – the continued acceptance of his peers and the ability to fulfil his basest desires – becomes in itself an important part of his fascination with events . when attending a society gathering only hours after having committed a murder we are told dorian ‘felt keenly the terrible pleasure of a double life’ ( ch . 15 ) .
the shield
offered the biggest role in jace ' s 22 - year acting career . he appeared in 89 episodes as julien lowe , who started as a rookie officer in an inner - city los angeles police precinct and was promoted to a detective before the series ended in 2008 .
jace faces up to 40 years to life in prison at his sentencing , scheduled for june 10 .
indianapolis - - a plot to rob an alleged drug dealer in the brookside neighborhood in april ended with his murder over a bag of weed and meth , according to new charges filed monday in marion county .
los angeles — a jury on tuesday convicted an actor who played a police officer on tv of second - degree murder in the shooting death of his wife that was partially witnessed by their two young sons .
citations [ 1 ] william j . krouse and daniel j . richardson , “mass murder with firearms : incidents and victims , 1999 - 2013 , ” congressional research service , july 2015 , p . 15 .
cory vallee is a member of the united nations gang . he has a violent history and is known to carry firearms . he is wanted on a canada wide warrant for the slaying of rival gang member kevin leclair and the slaying of an innocent party , jonathan barber . vallee is also wanted for the conspiracy to murder the bacon brothers and / or their associates . submitted photo : ihit [ png merlin archive ]
a wild trigger finger . . . a lust for big money . . . and a weak spot for fast blondes hurled him from the straight - and - narrow to a crooked one - way road !
the verdict in the trial of michael jace , who appeared on the fx series the shield , came after a week - long trial in which los angeles jurors were told the actor shot his wife , april , in the back and then twice in the legs with a revolver that belonged to her father .
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[ 43 ] “aurora century 16 theater shooting after action report for the city of aurora , colorado . ”
mike lambert , seeking a mining job , instead becomes the patsy for a femme - fatale ' s schemes .
the rumour of a prison break revival has left us with a strong sense of nostalgia for the explosive drama .
“there should be no place in society for racism , white supremacy and neo - nazis , ” she wrote .
' there is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book’ : oscar wilde’s manuscript drafts of epigrams , here titled ' dogmas for the use of the ages ' , later used for the preface to dorian gray .
charlottesville mayor michael signer blamed mr trump for inflaming racial prejudice while he was running for president , saying , “i ' m not going to make any bones about it . i place the blame for a lot of what you ' re seeing in america today right at the doorstep of the white house and the people around the president . ”
[ 38 ] see , for example , lisa l . spahr , joshua ederheimer , and david bilson , “patrol - level response to a suicide bomb threat : guidelines for consideration , ” police executive research forum , april 2007 .
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a jury convicted brogan rafferty of two dozen criminal counts , including murder , robbery , and kidnapping . judge lynne callahan told rafferty that he had been “dealt a lousy hand in life” but that he had “embraced the evil , ” and sentenced him to life without parole . in april 2013 , richard beasley was also convicted of murder and was sentenced to death . throughout his trial , he maintained that he was innocent . ( both beasley and rafferty are appealing their convictions . )
lieutenant jon kavanaugh : upon hearing of lem ' s death , kavanaugh was enraged and taunted vic , implying that he was behind lem ' s death since vic already killed terry and lem ' s death ends kavanaugh ' s investigation . kavanaugh tries to frame vic for lem ' s murder , but his attempts backfire and he is arrested and sent to prison .
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after a phone conversation with shane ' s lawyer , who tells shane that it is inevidable for shane and mara to be sent to prison , a desperate shane then phoned vic and asked him for help or else he would tell everyone about all the crimes they committed together . vic , however , in turn told shane that he has striked a deal for immunity with ice .
the only others present were undercover police , sheriffs , 10 lawyers , the court clerk and justice janice dillon . and of course there was vallee , accused of conspiracy to kill the bacon brothers , as well as the murder of their pal kevin leclair .
ronnie gardocki : ronnie himself was shocked and distraught upon hearing of lem ' s murder . upon finding out that shane killed lem , he stopped being his friend and didn ' t try to hide his disgust and hatred of shane for what he did to lem . ronnie was still shocked after learning that shane committed suicide , even though shane killed lem and tried to kill them .
one week after arresting brogan rafferty , investigators made a deal with their 16 - year - old suspect . if he agreed to testify against beasley , he would be charged only with complicity to murder and attempted murder , respectively , in the cases of david pauley and scott davis . he would not be charged with two other homicides that had by now been uncovered . later , rafferty would back out of the deal , but the plea - deal interview was recorded and the judge allowed it to be played at rafferty’s trial .
higgins and alleged co - conspirator , 16 - year - old sienna johnson , planned the massacre at mountain vista high school for dec . 17 , 2015 , because they thought it would be “the most traumatic” for everyone , the 22 - page affidavit revealed .
music impresario phil spector , left , was sentenced to 19 years to life in 2009 for the shooting death of actress lana clarkson .
senator orrin hatch wrote that his brother “didn ' t give his life fighting hitler for nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home” .
the fx police drama
the shield
was the biggest and longest - running role in jace ' s 22 - year acting career . he appeared in 89 episodes as julien lowe , who started as a rookie officer in an inner - city los angeles police precinct in 2002 and rose through the ranks to become a detective before the series ended in 2008 , according to the internet movie database .
he asks for immunity in return for offering his blacklist on some of the world ' s most powerful and dangerous criminals and his assistance in bringing them to justice , demanding a rookie profiler on her first day on the job as his partner . but what is his endgame ?
that week , pauley went to the men’s bible - study group he’d been attending since he’d moved into richard’s house . for weeks he’d been praying—never to win the lottery or get a girlfriend , always for steady work . everyone there agreed that god had finally heard his prayers .
vic then warned shane that he would kill him the next time he sees him . shane drove away , but not without calling vic a hypocrite . knowing that vic will try to murder him as revenge for lem , shane takes several measures to ensure his survival , beginning with a detailed description of the past crimes of the strike team , including names and photos , and threatened to make it public if vic acted against him .
in addition , shane also informed ronnie about vic ' s murder of terry crowley , attempting to drive a wedge between the two and possibly hoping to gain an ally . the news instead has the opposite effect , as ronnie approached vic , reproached him for not trusting his loyalty , and even tells vic that he would have done a better job of keeping the murder secret than shane ever could have . he then asked vic how they will be able to put their problems with shane behind them forever . during their interactions together , ronnie makes no attempt to hide his disgust and hatred of shane for what he did to lem . in one episode , where shane and ronnie are on stakeout together , when shane attempts to make idle conversation , ronnie bluntly cuts him off , telling shane
you want to chat up a buddy ? go find one .
jones told police someone who mckinley had reportedly “set up” on a robbery had informed her that she could hit mckinley for a big pay day .
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a larcenous undercover cop falls for the beautiful moll of a bank robber on the run and together they double - cross the hood and the cops .
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the next day , shane discovers to his horror that lem never had any intention of ratting out on the strike team . as a result , shane ' s justification for lem ' s murder was stripped away and he was consumed with guilt for killing lem . shane spends a moment , crying to himself over the fact that he murdered lem with no justification and appears to be on the verge of committing suicide when he is interrupted by officer danny sofer , who has arrived at the barn to take care of some paperwork and to show off her son . shane briefly holds the child before reuniting with the team .
this film - noir piece , told in semi - documentary style , follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop .
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deputy district attorney tannaz mokayef told jurors the actor was waiting for his wife , shot her in the back and taunted her before shooting each of her legs .
a jury of six women and six men deliberated about two hours before finding jace , 53 , guilty of second - degree murder in the may 19 , 2014 , death of april jace , according to the los angeles county district attorney ' s office . jurors also found true the special allegation that jace used a firearm .
april jace had worked for the past year as a financial aid counselor at biola university , a private school in la mirada , california , according to the school .
hicks previously told jurors the actor accepted responsibility for killing his wife , but he should be convicted of voluntary manslaughter because he shot her in the heat of passion .
on may 15 , javier valdez was gunned down in culiacán , mexico , where he had been bravely reporting on the sinaloa cartel and victims of its violence for years .
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an electronics expert creates a huge bookie broadcast system for his crime boss , and takes over operations when his boss is murdered . his greed leads him on a deadly destructive path .
the white house has said donald trump condemns white supremacist groups , after the president received backlash for what critics viewed as an equivocal response to a white nationalist protest that turned deadly .
law enforcement officers search for the suspects of the mass shooting in san bernardino , california , on december 2 , 2015 . ( patrick t . fallon / afp / getty images )
corrupt cop barney nolan ( edmond o ' brien ) is hard up for cash , so he shoots a bookie , relieves him of $ 25 , 000 and makes it look like an accident . unbeknownst to nolan , however , the entire episode is witnessed by a deaf - mute from across the street . while nolan struggles to keep the crime a secret from his girlfriend , patty winters ( marla english ) , a series of loose ends pop up , and nolan soon learns that , although committing a crime is easy , getting away with it is murder .
while most of the brawling resulted in cuts and bruises , a car bearing ohio license plates slammed into a crowd of counter - protesters , killing a 32 - year - old woman . more than 30 people are reported to have been injured , at least 19 in the car crash . james fields , 20 , the alleged driver , has been charged with second - degree murder .
vic was determined to find lima . knowing that lima wasn ' t involved in lem ' s murder and because guardo and his girlfriend are expecting a child , shane tried to dissuade vic from his pursuit of lima . shane ' s pleas were ignored , however as vic lured guardo out of hiding by kidnapping guardo ' s girlfriend , kidnapped guardo himself from his safe house and took guardo to a secluded area . there , vic proceeded to brutally beat guardo with chains and finished him off with a bullet to the head as
revenge
for lem ' s death .
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armored vehicles provided protection to officers in san bernardino and orlando from rounds fired by the terrorists . in orlando , a ram affixed to an armored vehicle was used to breach exterior walls for the purpose of rescuing hostages and neutralizing the assailant . eod resources rendered the secondary device ( ied ) safe in san bernardino and were used to search the irc and the assailant’s suv . eod resources were used in orlando to search the assailant’s vehicle and the nightclub for ieds as well as in an attempt to breach an exterior wall for the purpose of rescuing victims and neutralizing the assailant .
there was no way , maul thought to himself , that pauley would take off for pennsylvania without telling him . the two men had been best friends since high school , when they’d bonded over their mutual distaste for sports and love of cars . over the years they’d moved to different cities , gotten married , gotten divorced , but they’d stayed “constantly in touch , ” maul said .
it wasn’t long before beasley met a man named ralph geiger , who for many years had run a thriving maintenance business , but for whom jobs had gradually dried up . geiger , 56 , was staying at a shelter and looking for work , and beasley told him about the caretaker job he’d invented . geiger had lived on a farm when he was younger , and he leapt at the opportunity . rafferty remembers beasley quizzing geiger about his size and appearance : how much do you weigh ? you look a lot like me , except your hair is a little bit darker .
soon , the police swarm the area , with vic and ronnie also appearing . enraged and saddened by lem ' s death , vic briefly fought with kavanaugh ( who believed vic killed lem as lem ' s murder effectively puts an end to kavanaugh ' s investigation against the strike team ) . as vic was led away by ronnie and shane , vic vowed to find and kill those responsible .
the teens planned to change the date of the shooting until after the new year to give them time for target practice , the affidavit read . prosecutors allege johnson had already bought a bb gun .
next pauley called his twin sister , deb , who lives in maine . she told him that she hated the thought of him sitting alone on some farm for christmas and made him promise that he’d come visit her for the holidays . he told her that his new boss was a preacher and said he felt like the lord was finally pointing him toward the place where he might “find peace . ”
[ 31 ] department of homeland security , office of health affairs , “first responders guide for improving survivability in improvised explosive device and / or active shooter incidents , ” june 2015 , p . 9 .
davis instinctively threw up his arms to shield his face . the pistol didn’t jam the second time . as davis heard the crack of the gunshot , he felt his right elbow shatter . he turned and started to run , stumbling and falling over the uneven ground . the shots kept coming as davis ran deeper into the woods , but none of them hit home . he ran and ran until he heard no more shots or footsteps behind him . he came to the road and crossed it , worried that if he stayed in the open he’d be spotted by his would - be killer . he was losing a lot of blood by now , but he hid in the woods for several hours , until the sun was low , before he made his way back to the road and started walking .
meanwhile , lem was forced to abandon vic ' s original plans for hiding him after he risked his freedom to help out a young child who had been left alone by his parents and had seriously hurt himself in his home ' s kitchen . lem ultimately contacted vic and arranged for a meeting with his friends , with vic preparing the final details to get lem across the border and into hiding in mexico .
meanwhile , vic strikes a deal with ice - he confesses to every crime the strike team committed , in exchange for immunity and shane and ronnie going to prison for life . using shane ' s memoirs as a guide , vic confessed to killing detective terry crowley , margos dezerian , guardo lima and his many other crimes . vic also tells agent olivia murray that it was shane who killed lem with the grenade .
the trouble with you , you ' re always trying to be as smart as me , but now i ' m walking away clean and you ' re the pathetic asshole headed for antwon mitchell - ville .
april jace , 40 , was a financial aid counselor at biola university . she was married to michael jace for nine years and they had two sons , who were 8 and 5 at the time of her death .
“tell me now ! ” he screamed into the phone . “tell me right fucking now ! ” as he explained to me , “i knew . because that would be the only explanation for him not calling us . ”
the first thing beasley wanted was a new identity , and he began hanging around a local homeless shelter searching for someone who looked like him . he had by now come up with the perfect lure for a male victim in post - recession america : he would present himself as a beneficent but exacting employer , one with the power to alter a man’s fortunes by granting him the “job of a lifetime” as the caretaker of a sprawling farm .
when a brutal police detective lt . murders a bookmaker ' s runner for $ 25 , 000 in cash , a deaf mute sees him do it , and now he finds he must kill again to cover his tracks .
james spader is captivating as raymond ' red ' reddington , a former navy officer who went rogue and has been on the fbi ' s most wanted list for decades . . . until the day he turns himself in .
[ 8 ] “aurora century 16 theater shooting after action report for the city of aurora , colorado , ” tridata division , systems planning corp . , april 2014 , available online at the police foundation’s critical incident review library .
the fear of being sent to prison and losing your family as well as vic ' s threats over the phone lead to shane losing all hope of escaping with his family and as a result , shane poisoned his own family with painkillers to spare them the pain of being torn apart and then went to the bathroom and started writing a suicide note . he couldn ' t finish the note , however , as his former colleagues from the barn kicked down the doors and entered the house to arrest shane for all the crimes he committed , including the murder of lem . intending to avoid capture and join his family , shane proceeded to shoot himself in the head , committing suicide .
in february 2011 , beasley was arrested in ohio on a variety of drug - related charges . while he was in jail , investigators were building a prostitution case against him . he was released on bond in mid - july . but after he failed to check in with authorities in texas , where he was still on parole for his earlier crimes , the state issued a warrant for his arrest , and he was deemed on the run from the law .
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the hit failed , however as the hitmen only managed to kill rezian and his henchmen , but not shane who manages to survive and vowed revenge against vic and ronnie . shane blackmailed / hired a convict to kill ronnie ( ronnie had assaulted the convict ) , while shane waited inside vic ' s house to personally murder him . after the failed attempt on ronnie ' s life , vic was notified as to what happened and spared his own life by never entering his house .
a vicious cop kills a bookie ' s runner and steals $ 25 , 000 from the corpse . he then frames everyone in sight in order to keep the money to buy a new home for his would - be lounge singer girlfriend .
cnn has been unable to find the name of any lawyer jace may have hired to defend him in this homicide case . he is not expected to appear in court before thursday , a spokeswoman for the los angeles county district attorney said .
mostly , though , his letters are full of longing for family , for his dad and his half - sisters , his dog , whiskey , and his cats , cow and monkey , his mom and his grandma and grandpa and his aunts and uncles . the raffertys are an old irish clan , with a coat of arms hanging in the living room . rafferty draws that coat of arms sometimes in prison , along with the two tattoos he wants to get , one that says
walter pater’s conclusion to studies in the history of the renaissance ( 1873 ) heavily influenced aestheticism . note his reference to ‘art for art’s sake’ in the last line . pater’s emphasis on pleasure and passion alarmed critics and it became associated with homosexuality .
if the interview went well , jack might tell the applicant that he was a finalist for the job . but if the applicant gave any sign that he did not meet one of jack’s criteria , the meeting would end abruptly . for one candidate , everything seemed on track until he mentioned that he was about to get married . jack immediately stood up and thanked him for his time . george , the man who’d written the e - mail about being raised on a farm , told jack that he’d once been a security guard and was an expert in martial arts . he figured this would be a plus , given that he’d have to guard all that property when no one else was around . but the mood of the interview immediately changed for the worse . jack took the application out of george’s hands before he even finished filling it out and said he’d call him in a couple of days . if george didn’t hear anything , he should assume that “someone else got it . ”
shane vendrell : shane immediately regrets murdering his friend , but still believed that it had to be done . he was overcome with guilt , however , after he found out that lem wasn ' t going to testify against the team . he even considered suicide , but was interrupted by officer danny sofer . upon finding out that shane killed lem , vic and ronnie stopped considering him a friend and threatened to kill him , however , shane predicted this and threatened to make public a list of all the crimes the strike team committed over the years . in season seven , vic and ronnie attempt to kill shane and avenge lem , but they fail as shane survived and in turn tried to kill them , however the police find out about the murder plot and he and his family become figutives . shane eventually killed his family and committed suicide after learning that vic striked a immunity deal with ice and had told them every crime they committed , even telling them that shane was behind lem ' s murder .
pauley was cruising online job opportunities when he came across the craigslist ad in october 2011 . usually pauley looked for jobs only around norfolk . but his best friend since high school , chris maul , had moved to ohio a couple years earlier and was doing well . he and maul talked dozens of times a day on the nextel walkie - talkies they’d bought specifically for that purpose . if maul , who was also divorced , could pick up and start a new life , why couldn’t pauley ?
two other witnesses told police they had visited mckinley’s home to buy drugs earlier that afternoon . they said he sold heron and methamphetamine , and that he had a large amount of marijuana for sale because he had just bought a new batch to sell .
jace ' s attorney , jamon hicks , said his client is remorseful for killing his wife . the actor may speak during his sentencing hearing to express his remorse , but he wants to be respectful of april jace ' s family , the lawyer said .
the terrorist attacks in san bernardino and orlando , as well as other incidents in the west , have provided a number of additional lessons for police forces in the united states when it comes to command at the scene , communication , equipment , and medical capabilities .
around 2009 , beasley founded what he told friends was a halfway house to help reform addicts , runaways , and prostitutes . beasley would cruise the streets of akron at night , picking up strays and bringing them back to the house . if they were in trouble with the law , he would vouch for them in court , saying they had turned their lives over to christ . a few times , rafferty asked beasley whether they could go out and look for his mother , yvette , who rafferty always worried was in trouble .
[ l ] the international association of chiefs of police and the president’s police physicians section , the president’s task force on 21 st century policing , and the national tactical officers association have all recommended some version of tactical medical training and equipment for local law enforcement agencies .
the pauley money quickly dwindled , but beasley wasn’t all that concerned . he already had a still - better victim lined up in scott davis . before davis had even hit the road for ohio , beasley told his landlord that he’d won a bid on a fantastic storage unit that contained a flat - screen tv , a computer , some lawn - care equipment , and , best of all , a harley . he told rafferty that he thought he could net $ 30 , 000 on this kill , enough for him to make it through the winter .
mads mikkelsen is simultaneously creepy and charming in the iconic role , paired with unstable and unwitting fbi special investigator will graham ( hugh dancy ) to assess and assist him . while hannibal ' s diet is no secret , the mystery behind his motivations keeps us coming back for more .
meanwhile , some democrats suggested that mr trump was unwilling to alienate the racist segment of his voter base . the alt - right – a name given to the group that has rejected mainstream conservatism in favour of white nationalism – drew considerable controversy during mr trump’s bid for the white house .
jack seemed drawn to applicants who were less formal in their e - mail replies , those who betrayed excitement , and with it , vulnerability . “i was raised on a farm as a boy and have raised some of my own cattle and horses as well , ” wrote one . “i’m still in good shape and not afraid of hard work ! i really hope you can give me a chance . if for some reason i wouldn’t work out for you no hard feelings at all . i would stick with you until you found help . thank you very much , george . ”
jack painstakingly designed the ad to conjure a very particular male fantasy : the cowboy or rancher , out in the open country , herding cattle , mending fences , hunting game—living a dream that could transform a post - recession drifter into a timeless american icon . from the many discarded drafts of the ad that investigators later found , it was clear that jack was searching for just the right pitch to catch a certain kind of man’s eye . he tinkered with details—the number of acres on the property , the idea of a yearly bonus and paid utilities—before settling on his final language : “hilly , ” “secluded , ” “job of a lifetime . ” if a woman applied for the job , jack wouldn’t bother responding . if a man applied , he would ask for the critical information right off the bat : how old are you ? do you have a criminal record ? are you married ?
“the president said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence , bigotry and hatred and of course that includes white supremacists , kkk , neo - nazi and all extremist groups , ” the white house said . “he called for national unity and bringing all americans together . ”
edin concluded that for men who are failing the traditional tests of marriage and parenting , this kind of intense emotional connection “is the last form of identity available . ” it’s a way to maintain a sense of family if you can’t be a reliable breadwinner , or even keep up with child support .
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jace appeared to be suffering severe financial strain in recent years , according to court documents obtained by cnn . the actor filed for chapter 13 bankruptcy in march 2011 , citing $ 500 , 000 in debts and an annual income of around $ 80 , 000 from residuals from his tv and film work , the documents said .
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davis , 48 , had left his girlfriend behind in south carolina , given away the accounts for his landscaping business , and put most of his equipment in storage . he’d packed his other belongings—clothes , tools , stereo equipment , his harley - davidson—into a trailer , hitched it to his truck , and driven to southeastern ohio . he’d told everyone that he was moving in part to help take care of his mom , who lived outside akron and whose house was falling apart . moving back home at his age might seem like moving backward in life . but the caretaker job he’d stumbled across online made it seem more like he’d be getting paid to live free and easy for a while—a no - rent trailer plus $ 300 a week , in exchange for just watching over a farm with a few head of cattle outside the town of cambridge . jack had reminded him in an e‑mail to bring his harley because there were “plenty of beautiful rural roads to putt - putt in . ”
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savoy brown , an adult son of april jace , said the family was pleased with the verdict . he said watching michael jace has been difficult for the family , and he is hoping the actor , who bit his bottom lip when the verdict was read but showed no other emotion , will show his feelings when he is sentenced .
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in his e - mails to jack , kern had described himself as single and “available for immediate relocation , ” but hadn’t said much about his sons . in truth , kern was ambivalent about the caretaker job he’d been offered—he described it on his facebook page as a “good offer” but with “drawbacks , ” because he would be more than two hours away from his sons and wouldn’t have cellphone service . kern and his ex - wife tina had divorced in 1997 , and zach and nick were already 19 and 17 . but kern made a point of seeing them nearly every day , even if that meant waiting around the corner from their house until after tina left for work .
the actor appeared to be under severe financial strain in the years before his 2014 arrest , according to court documents obtained by cnn . jace filed for chapter 13 bankruptcy in march 2011 , citing $ 500 , 000 in debts and an annual income of around $ 80 , 000 from residuals from his tv and film work , documents said .
version was used by opposing counsel in evidence against wilde in two of his trials in an attempt to show him guilty of ‘a certain tendency’ . for many people oscar wilde the artist – with his flamboyant public persona and his secretive private life – and his novel with its two distinctly different versions and its duplicitous central character mirrored each other from the start .
a few days later , pauley got an e - mail back from jack saying that he had narrowed his list down to three candidates , “and you are one of the 3 . ” jack asked his usual questions—was pauley married ? had he ever been arrested for a felony ? —and told him that if he was chosen , he’d have to start immediately .
that no one would come looking for the divorced , unsettled , middle - aged men he was targeting . but he should have known better . like his victims , beasley was himself divorced , and lived apart from his child , and was only sporadically employed . and like them , he too had created an intense surrogate family relationship , with brogan rafferty .
beasley , meanwhile , was constructing a life as ralph geiger . he dyed his hair brown and found a room to rent . he went to a doctor to get prescription painkillers for the injuries he’d sustained in his car accident . in september , he landed a job as a quality inspector at a company that made liftgates for trucks . but it didn’t last long . beasley’s back still hurt , and he became worried that parole officers would somehow catch on to him . still , he couldn’t survive without a steady income . perhaps that’s when the idea came to him . the geiger killing had gone so smoothly that he could turn it into a career of sorts , preying on other men who’d fallen out of the economy .
wanted : caretaker for farm . simply watch over a 688 acre patch of hilly farmland and feed a few cows , you get 300 a week and a nice 2 bedroom trailer , someone older and single preferred but will consider all , relocation a must , you must have a clean record and be trustworthy—this is a permanent position , the farm is used mainly as a hunting preserve , is overrun with game , has a stocked 3 acre pond , but some beef cattle will be kept , nearest neighbor is a mile away , the place is secluded and beautiful , it will be a real get away for the right person , job of a lifetime—if you are ready to relocate please contact asap , position will not stay open .
at the trial , the local press seized on the story of how , at age 5 , when he was in kindergarten , brogan would eat breakfast alone , get himself dressed , and make his own way to the bus stop . “he raised himself , in my opinion , ” one grade - school counselor who knew him told the jury . but things weren’t quite so simple : michael explained to me that he worked an early shift at a machine shop and had to leave the house by 6 : 30 a . m . before he left , he laid out clothes for his son , poured his favorite cereal in a bowl , and left him a little pitcher of milk . then he gently woke him up and left for work .


two weeks notice is a 2002 australian-american romantic comedy film starring hugh grant and sandra bullock .

the film was written and directed by marc lawrence , who had previously scripted two other box-office hits for bullock , miss congeniality and forces of nature .

although critical response was mixed , the film received a successful box office run , both in the united states and globally .

two weeks notice

the manager gave him two weeks’ notice . the manager gave him notice of two weeks .
there is a movie out called “two weeks notice” . shouldn’t this be “two week notice” ?
the title , if grammatically correct , would read two weeks ' notice , not two weeks notice . see more »
notice of two weeks = two weeks ' notice . the apostrophe is there to indicate possession = of , as wendy says .
if
notice of two weeks
is an alternative , then
two weeks ' notice
with an apostrophe is correct . genitive case .
neither ' two weeks notice ' nor ' two week notice ' are correct . it should be ' two weeks ' notice ' with the apostrophe signalling the omission of the word ' of ' rather than possession of anything .
featured in the making of ' two weeks notice ' ( 2002 ) . see more »
i won ' t bore you with additional references , but they all are in agreement :
two weeks notice
or
two week notice
is incorrect ;
two weeks ' notice
is correct . i now give you but a moment ' s notice that my comment is ending .
if you want to answer the questions ,
who starred in the movie two weeks notice ?
and
what is the full cast list of two weeks notice ?
then this page has got you covered .
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this cast list of who was in two weeks notice includes both lead and minor roles . ( 10 items )
romantic comedy two weeks notice has taken the top spot in the uk box office chart in its first week .
two weeks notice cast list , listed alphabetically with photos when available . this list of two weeks notice actors includes any two weeks notice actresses and all other actors from the film . you can view additional information about each two weeks notice actor on this list , such as when and where they were born . to find out more about a particular actor or actress , click on their name and you ' ll be taken to page with even more details about their acting career . the cast members of two weeks notice have been in many other movies , so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar with .
circumstances that might require you to leave before giving two weeks’ notice include a personal emergency or unbearable ( or unsafe ) work conditions .
apostrophes are also criminally underused in the realm of movie posters . without the apostrophe , what does this movie title even mean ? it certainly doesn ' t mean
a notice of two weeks ,
which is what
two weeks ' notice
would mean .
but both are correct , because you could say
i gave him three weeks notice .
read below for information on why you should give two weeks’ notice , how to write a resignation email , and a sample email message .
two weeks ' notice - - here
notice
is a noun , a particular kind - - a noun that is derived from a verb , with a particular name - - a gerund .
give two weeks’ notice . your contract or company handbook may specify how much notice you need to give , but if not , two weeks is the standard . your employer needs time to process your departure , start looking for someone else , and plan for as smooth a transition as possible .
i am writing to announce my resignation from company name , effective two weeks from this date .
please accept this as my formal notice of resignation from xyz company . my last day will be september 14 , 20xx , two weeks from today .
' two weeks notice ' , starring sandra bullock and hugh grant , has topped the uk and ireland box office on its first weekend of release .
if you say
two week notice
you usually precede it with
a
or
my
. as is
i gave him a two - week notice .
meaning that
two - week
is the proper name for that kind of notice , which most people are familiar with as ample notice for quitting a job .
please let me know how i can be of service during my final two weeks at the company .
though two weeks notice has nothing new to add to the crowded genre , hugh grant and sandra bullock make the movie a pleasant , if predictable , sit .
however , two weeks’ notice is not legally required . if you have a union agreement or employment contract that states how much notice you have to give , definitely follow those rules . otherwise , do your best to give two weeks’ notice . this is a good way to maintain a positive relationship with your employer , which you may need should you ever need to ask them for a recommendation .
regarding the apostrophe after notice , think how you’d refer to a notice period that’s one day long : you’d say one day’s notice , with an apostrophe , not one day notice . so when you refer to a notice period that’s several days long , you say days’ , with the apostrophe .
romantic comedy : after taking a job for the playboy real estate developer she despises , a legal activist realizes that she might actually like him after she gives her two weeks notice .
two weeks notice uses the ' opposites attract ' blueprint , with a dithering sandra bullock and a foppish hugh grant . as a producer , bullock makes a great actress , says joe queenan
i am writing to notify you that i am providing two weeks’ notice and will be resigning from my position as customer service representative with abcd company . my last day of employment will be january 15 .
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read below for tips on how to write a resignation letter in which you provide your employer with two weeks notice . then read sample resignation letters and a sample resignation email . use these samples as templates for your own letter .
can i , once and for all , put an end to this debacle ? if i was to give notice of one week to someone i would give them one week ' s notice , not one week notice . in that one statement i have proved that the apostrophe is there because of the possessive . if you are giving more than one week of notice it is still a possesive and an apostrophe is still required . the rule about plural possessives comes into play and an apostrophe is required after the
s
; two weeks ' notice . end of argument . don ' t listen to anyone who says differently ; they have a twisted , illogical , and muddled mind . one more time for the record ; two weeks ' notice . thank you and good night .
if you have decided to resign from your job , it is customary to provide your employer with two weeks notice . whatever your reason for leaving , two weeks gives an employer enough time to come up with plans to cover your absence . for example , an employer might need time to hire someone to fill the position , or they might need time to reassign your tasks to other employees .
two weeks notice is basically saved by the really good actors in it , especially grant and bullock . there are some laughs here and there , but there ' s nothing remarkable about the film so this is standard rom - com entry .
i have just been having a prolonged argument with people at work about whether it is correct to write
three weeks notice
or
three weeks ' notice
. my view is that , since a week cannot possess the notice and it is not an abbreviation with an absent letter , it is incorrect to use an apostrophe . the notice , is anything , is possessed by the person to whom it is given ( i . e . she gave him his notice ) . merge , purple dragon , i see that you agree with this . do you know of any printed source which would verify it ?
everywhere one looks , there are signs of ignorance and indifference . what about that film two weeks notice ? guaranteed to give sticklers a very nasty turn , that was – its posters slung along the sides of buses in letters four feet tall , with no apostrophe in sight . i remember , at the start of the two weeks notice publicity campaign in the spring of 2003 , emerging cheerfully from victoria station ( was i whistling ? ) and stopping dead in my tracks with my fingers in my mouth . where was the apostrophe ? surely there should be an apostrophe on that bus ? if it were “one month’s notice” there would be an apostrophe ( i reasoned ) ; yes , and if it were “one week’s notice” there would be an apostrophe . therefore “two weeks’ notice” requires an apostrophe ! buses that i should have caught ( the 73 ; two 38s ) sailed off up buckingham palace road while i communed thus at length with my inner stickler , unable to move or , indeed , regain any sense of perspective .
or , to avoid any possible confusion in punctuation :
a sentence of two years in prison
or
a two - year sentence of imprisonment .
she takes the job and is at his beck and call for over 18 months before she goes bananas and gives her two weeks notice . in that time , she must find a replacement and then she has to fight off her feelings of love for hugh .
what an interesting read . . . one that took me away from my project for an hour ' s time . ; - d first , to stephanie , it would actually be a
five - minute warning
for reasons i will point out below . to end the debate , if there continues to be any , in the example ,
in two weeks ' time , i will be resigning ,
the apostrophe is correct , if one could also say ,
in the time of two weeks , i will be resigning .
( ostensibly
of
denotes possession of time and
time
is ascribed to the 2 weeks , hence it acts as a plural possessive . ) if you are going to leave off the word
time ,
then the statement must revert to ,
in two weeks i will be resigning .
the only other correct way to say this would be to say ,
a two - week notice
in which case , as in
five - minute warning ,
the words ' two ' and ' week ' would be acting as an adjective modifying the word ' warning ' and would need to be hyphenated . such as in my 2 - year - old son , vs . my son is 2 years old . in the case of the original question about the title of the movie , using these criteria we have discussed here and throughout the thread ,
two weeks ' notice
would be correct , or , if anyone in hollywood had given it any serious thought ,
two - week notice .
now , i must go back to work as i do not want anyone giving me a two weeks ' notice of a two - week notice on this project . ; - d
the comedy stars sandra bullock and hugh grant , and marks the feature directorial debut of marc lawrence , who previously wrote bullock vehicles forces of nature and miss congeniality for her production company fortis films . two weeks notice scored a strong weekend average of $ 9 , 672 .
it does seem a bit odd i know . we use the possessive apostrophe with phrases that refer to ‘worth of time’ – so two weeks’ ( worth of ) notice , six months’ ( worth of ) time , three days’ ( worth of ) hike and so on .
in a perfect world , you’re going to politely give two weeks notice , suggest a reasonable amount of time during which you’ll stay to wrap up projects , and perhaps train a replacement . and your soon - to - be - ex - employer will embrace this plan joyfully .
yet , george is more interested in her decision - making regarding what are otherwise trivial matters in his life and eventually treats her like his personal assistant . she puts up with that for a rather long while , but eventually becomes fed up and announces her two weeks notice .
[ . . . ] more movies out there missing their punctuation , namely two weeks notice . ( though according to this ridiculously in - depth debate , that might not necessarily be true . and here’s where my brain starts to cave in and the [ . . . ]
i’ve got a question about the use of apostrophes in notice period provisions . i was rather surprised to see that section 8 . 96 of the mscd includes apostrophes after the number of days / weeks / months in your example provisions . shouldn’t such provisions simply refer to “days” , “weeks” or “months” without the apostrophe ? as i read it , including an apostrophe indicates a possessive ( i . e . , that day / week / month owns the notice period ) and i always thought the reference should simply be to the number of days / weeks / months ( i . e . , the “s” is there because the reference is typically to multiple days / weeks / months ) . do the days / weeks / months really own the notice period or am i thinking about this wrong ?
where reference is made to lynne truss ' s book
eats shoots and leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation .
in which she cites the example of the film title
two weeks notice
as incorrectly punctuated because there should be an apostrophe after the
s
.
sorry , i meant to say
two years ' imprisonment
. . . oops !
the arguments of two years ' imprisonment or one day ' s leave are not pertinent to this case because both refer to continuous time frames . rather ,
two weeks notice
is more like saying ,
i will give you a five minute warning before your time is up
- - it is an single , instantaneous event ( at least one would hope you don ' t have to notify your boss of resignation continually for two weeks ) . arguably , i suppose our colloquial language of
five minute warning
should actually be
five minutes warning
. . .
it’s easy to get trunky once you’ve put in your two weeks’ notice at a job . but it’s important to dig in and finish strong . not only is your company still paying you , but you want to leave on a high note . first impressions get a lot of emphasis , but psychologists have found that people remember best both the first part of an experience and the last part– which is to say your final two weeks will constitute much of what your former colleagues remember about you .
as to why you use the possessive at all , i think it’s because five days’ notice is an alternative to notice of five days . that’s analogous to david’s hat being equivalent to the hat of david .
it is not a possessive , although the rule for plural possessives is still applied here .
notice
obviously does not belong to
two weeks .
the correct term is a
genitive
or more specifically to this case , it is a genitive of measure ( as achille marra indicated ) .
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i ' m not a mother tongue speaker but i ' m pretty sure that the correct form is ' two weeks ' notice ' , genitive of measure . if , as i believe , in this case ' notice ' is countable a possible alternative is ' a two week notice ' like ' a three day ticket ' or ' a stone merchant ' but the form in the title of the film doesn ' t make sense because it would be a compound with the first part - grammatically an adjective - treated as a noun : consider the difference between a twenty - year - old boy and a twenty years old .
apostrophes are used in phrases such as two days ' time and 12 years ' jail , where the time period ( two days ) modifies a noun ( time ) , but not in three weeks old or nine months pregnant , where the time period ( three weeks ) modifies an adjective ( old ) . you can test this by trying the singular : one day ' s time , but one month pregnant .
it’s important to provide your employer with two weeks’ notice if you can . this is a standard practice when resigning . it provides enough time for you to transition out of the office and to finish up any projects you can . it also gives your employer time to begin to hire ( and possibly train ) your replacement .
two icons of romantic comedy team up for the first time , and the result is a fizzle .
merge was correct as , indeed , is the film title . it should read
two weeks notice
. the word ' weeks ' is a plural of the noun week , hence the terminal ' s ' . joachim : this is not the genitive case . it is not the notice of ( or belonging to ) the weeks in question ; thus no apostrophe is required . selkie : there is no necessity for the word ' of ' in this sentence . moreover , even if that was the case , an apostrophe , when used to indicate omission , signifies a missing letter ( or letters ) not a missing word . so , again , no apostrophe is required .
another thing just occurred to me in the case of the movie title . . . knowing how they think in hollywood , having lived in the world of movies for 25 years , this is likely rendered two week notice because they are simultaneously speaking of 2 things . . . and actually intend a pun . that is to say , that the 2 - week notice julia roberts gives hugh grant give his
2 weeks to notice
he loves her , before she is out of his life for good . so . . . given the nature of titles to stand for multiple things , i think what hollywood and the writers were wanting to leave you with , ultimately was his 2 weeks to notice her and say something to her . . . . wonder if anyone else out there would agree .
she writes for those who winced at the posters advertising the film two weeks notice and who felt real pain when they saw in print the name of the pop group hear ' say . its absurd apostrophe ,
hanging there in eternal meaninglessness
, was , truss says ,
a significant milestone on the road to punctuation anarchy
.
horror sequel ' final destination 2 ' debuted at number two on the chart , outperforming the original film .
three major new openers stormed the uk box office this week , led by warner bros ' romantic comedy two weeks notice . the strong combination of the three debutantes , a host of other new titles and continued strength of holdovers , such as catch me if you can , led the box office for the top 15 titles to a 10 % jump on last week .
there’s a certain etiquette involved when , for whatever reason , you decide to quit your job . it ' s best to tell your boss in person , if possible , that you are resigning from your job , and then follow up with a formal resignation letter . it is also best to give your employer at least two weeks notice’ when you are planning to leave .
without wishing to blow my own trumpet , people say i ' m an authority on english grammar and punctuation ; i ' ve been teaching little else for 46 years ! i can confirm that the above posting is absolutely and unequivocally correct ; it ' s
two weeks ' notice
. just apply the plural - possessive rule that , surely , every schoolchild ' s been taught .
state the date . the most important thing you need to say in your letter is when you will be leaving the company . you can either state the specific date you will leave , or say that you are leaving two weeks from the current date .
rather than being a matter of opinion , surely the ruling of the apostrophe in
two weeks ' notice
is officially documented somewhere ! i ' m keen to resolve this in my own mind . i ' ve always used an apostrophe in this case ( and argued the point many times ) and , if i ' m wrong , i ' d really like to know about it ! somebody , help !
sandra bullock plays a liberal social lawyer who works for the little guy and tries to preserve older building from being torn down . she ends up taking a job for george so that she has more access to funds for charitable causes , but ends up pretty much just being his personal assistant . that eventually causes her to give her two weeks notice , although she obviously has feelings for him . she gets drunk and passes out in one scene .
i presume
a sentence of two year ' s imprisonment
follows the same rule ? ? it is a frequent argument amongst lawyers .
while a week is a reference to a collection of days it is itself singular in nature . so if the number is singular ( ie . one ) then so is the word week , but if it ' s more than one , then you need to use the plural ( weeks ) . here the word week could easily be substituted for a word like apple - one apple , two apples , fifty apples , two hundred apples .
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in the real world , it often doesn’t play out quite so swimmingly . in particular , sometimes your boss will thank you for your work , ask you to kindly turn in your laptop , phone , and id badge , and then show you the door . before you resign , prepare ( mentally and logistically ) for the possibility that your two weeks - notice offer will be declined . have your boxes on standby , just in case you need to leave asap .
personally , i don’t let my behavior and values be dictated by others . i treat people with the respect i would wish to be treated with , regardless of whether they would reciprocate . my code isn’t based on tit for tat . even if your boss is a chump , and your company a hellhole , jumping ship without notice will often greatly add to the burdens of your fellow employees , who will have to scramble to cover your responsibilities and figure out how to tie up your loose ends . that’s your job , not theirs . so out of respect for your colleagues , if nothing else , put in your two weeks’ notice .
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i ' m not a linguist or grammatician - in fact i don ' t even know if there is such a word as grammatician - but i found the alt - usage - english argument convincing . their example was
one day ' s leave
which to me seems to be essentially the same grammatical issue as
two weeks ' notice
. actually it may be a better example because day is singular , so it becomes obvious that
one day leave
doesn ' t sound right .
so logically , in the plural it should be ' two weeks ' notice ' , ' in five minutes ' time ' , ' three miles ' walk for here ' . and this is what the guardian and economist style guides ( in the uk ) stipulate . it is also what any dictionary will show you in the examples . it is also the majority use in books . however , so many people leave off the apostrophe these days that i wonder if it is not becoming acceptable in informal writing .
but to the business in hand , if it was one week , we ' d need an apostrophe to be grammatical - ' one week ' s notice ' , ' in a minute ' s time ' , ' a mile ' s walk from here ' - i . e . notice of one week , the time of a minute , a walk of a mile .
two witch sisters , raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town , face closed - minded prejudice and a curse which threatens to prevent them ever finding lasting love .
romantic comedies are the comfort food of the movies . there are nights when you don ' t feel like a chef who thinks he ' s more important than the food . when you feel like sliding into a booth at some formica joint where the waitress calls you
hon
and writes your order on a green and white guest check . walking into
two weeks notice
at the end of a hectic day , week , month and year , i wanted it to be a typical romantic comedy starring those two lovable people , sandra bullock and hugh grant . and it was . and some of the dialogue has a real zing to it . there were wicked little one - liners that slipped in under the radar and nudged the audience in the ribs .
the film was originally set to film entirely in toronto due to cheaper production costs , but producer / star sandra bullock insisted that a film about new york city must be made in new york city . it ended up being shot entirely on location within a 17 - week span . it revitalized the economy of new york city after the terrorist attacks of 11 september 2001 and allowed businesses to flourish once again . in honor of the cast and crew ' s contribution to the city , december 11th , 2002 was named
two weeks notice
day by the mayor of new york city . see more »
no , jappy , merge is only partially correct , because their solution fails to take into account the possessive . you must have the apostrophe after the word
weeks
for the phrase to be properly rendered .
two weeks notice is not a great romantic comedy . for many of us , romantic comedies are like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches , providing comfort food and simple consistency in a messy world ; we relax and enjoy the familiar experience , knowing that there will be no discomforting surprises or soul - searching involved . but in this movie , there are no real sparks between leads sandra bullock and hugh grant , some of the humor you can foresee ( and start wincing at ) long before it arrives , and , if you have seen the preview , you have a pretty good sense of where the movie is going .
the last three don ' t take apostrophes ; they are not possessives ( you can ' t say
late of two hours
) . wars whose title is their length do not need apostrophes :
structurally , the film ' s off - kilter . the start of the relationship is rushed through , while the supposedly crucial notice period feels increasingly directionless . which leaves the comic strand - and that , by and large , delivers .
most , however , will appreciate you staying on for a couple of weeks to help with the transition . this can be beneficial to you as well , offering you the opportunity demonstrate your professionalism and to leave the job on a positive note .
two weeks notice ( 2002 ) official trailer - hugh grant , sandra bullock movie hd subscribe to classic trailers : urltoken subscribe to trailers : urltoken subscribe to coming soon : urltoken like us on facebook : urltoken follow us on twitter : urltoken a lawyer decides that she ' s used too much like a nanny by her boss , so she walks out on him . welcome to the fandango movieclips trailer vault channel . where trailers from the past , from recent to long ago , from a time before youtube , can be enjoyed by all . we search near and far for original movie trailer from all decades . feel free to send us your trailer requests and we will do our best to hunt it down .
the genitive element of measurement is satisfied by definition as well as that of possession insofaras the week ( or weeks ) possesses the ' worth ' even in the more commonly used case where the words ' worth of ' are absent but still implied .
don’t start any new projects during your last two weeks , but do all you can to tie up loose ends . fill in your colleagues about where any open projects stand , where you left off with xyz , and where they can find your documents and files . ask them how you can help them out in your transition . leave the company in as good a shape as possible . make them sad to see you go , and hoping you’ll cross paths again someday .
if i tell you
two weeks notice
is a romantic comedy and it stars sandra bullock and hugh grant , what do you already know , and what do you need to know ? you already know : that when they meet the first time , they don ' t like each other . that circumstances bring them together . that they get along fine , but are sometimes scared by that and back off a little . that they are falling in love without knowing it . that just when they ' re about to know it , circumstances force them apart . that they seem doomed to live separately , their love never realized . that circumstances bring them back together again . that they finally cave in and admit they ' re in love .
this isn ' t even another case of a missing hyphen . it ' s a case of one perfectly good word that has inexplicably been severed into two . it ' s
stepbrother ,
not
step brother ,
okay ?
two weeks notice is a charming romantic comedy . hugh grant and sandra bullock are perfect for each other . it ' s about this lawyer who fights for what she believes in . then she ' s hired by the very people she is fighting against . this is one of the funniest movies i have ever seen . the writing is wonderful . . . using lines like
you are the most selfish person on the planet ! ! !
now that ' s just silly , have you met everyone on the planet ?
also
do you know what i like even better than chess ?
pokemon ?
those are lines that have such unexpected answers you can ' t help but laugh ! best romantic comedy i ' ve seen in a long time ! !
offer assistance . offer to help the company during the two - week transition . you might offer to train a new employee , for example , or to write a description of your daily work responsibilities and / or unfinished projects for your successor .
when transcribing i wrote - will see the client back in two week ' s time - spell / grammar check did not indicate i change . . . this comes up often and i am still uncertain if this is / can be appropriate ?
george tells lucy that he didn ' t sleep with june and then says he wants to discuss the above bobcat pretzel thing ( she says the bobcat part is out , but that she can do the pretzel ) . the two then passionately kiss .
this is the story of lucy ( bullock ) who is a protestor and wants to keep a building in new york standing , but george wade ' s enterprise is going to knock it down . so she goes to wade himself ( grant ) and tells him her plans . he ends up making her his secretary person saying that she can cancel the destruction if she works for him . she does an excellent job , but gets tired of wade ' s petty grievences . so she decides to give her two weeks notice so she can leave . she starts to train a new secretary and finds that when she is flirting with him , she gets a little jealous . thus , the love triange starts . she ends up getting him in the end as you ' ve no doubt figured out already . very cute .
1 . because there is a noun after the word
months ,
it should be possessive . 2 . now , because there is more than one month involved ( two ) , you have a word that is both plural and possessive . 3 . so you write the complete plural ,
months .
4 . then you add an apostrophe :
two months ' vacation .
5 . you add no
s
after the apostrophe because you would not speak a second
s
sound out loud .
that’s always been the problem for sticklers , you see . the feeling of isolation . the feeling of nerdishness . one solitary obsessive , feebly armed with an apostrophe on a stick , will never have the nerve to demonstrate outside warner brothers on the issue of two weeks notice . but if enough people could pull together in a common cause , who knows what we might accomplish ? there are many obstacles to overcome here , not least our national characteristics of reserve ( it’s impolite to tell someone they’re wrong ) , apathy ( someone else will do it ) and outright cowardice ( is it worth being duffed up for the sake of a terminally ailing printer’s convention ? ) . but i have faith . i do have faith . and i also have an inner stickler that , having been unleashed , is now roaring , salivating and clawing the air in a quite alarming manner .
this is a twofer . there ' s no comma between
crazy
and
stupid
on the poster , though the two are clearly coordinating , not cumulative , conjunctions . yet in the official title of the movie , there are two commas - - after
crazy
and after
stupid .
normally we support commas in movie titles , but how did that comma after
stupid
slip in there ? if this is actually a list , why are two of the words adjectives while the last one is a noun , breaking the parallel structure of the list completely ? if
crazy , stupid
describes
love ,
why is there a comma between
stupid
and
love
? ? this movie title is a punctuation disaster no matter which way you slice it .
with an opening of $ 4 . 3m ( £2 . 6m ) from 414 sites - including previews of $ 296 , 184 ( £181 , 561 ) from 312 sites . it is warner ' s first chart topper since the two week , mid - november , reign of
this is one of my favorite movies . it has humor and romance and manages both with a logical sense of style that really makes the whole thing work . too often movies will try so hard to be great but they slip up in one or more categories . it ' s annoying to watch a movie that seems to be fantastic only to blow it at the very end by doing something ' cute ' but while trying to be cute it breaks the logical consistency it ' s strove for up to this point . two weeks notice doesn ' t do that at all . it ' s logical , funny and cute all the way through while at the same time maintaining the sexual tension between bullock and grant very well . there is one scene with bullock needing to use the restroom and using an rv that stretches the logic a bit but it doesn ' t go too far . all in all , great movie . great romantic comedy .
don’t get “trunky . ” when i was on a two - year mission for my church , once a missionary approached the last few months of his service , he’d often start to get “trunky” – the term we used for figuratively having one’s bags packed , and mentally starting to check out .
a deeply unscientific review of a sample of contracts filed on the sec’s edgar system in the last few days showed that of those contract that included the usage x days’ notice , about one third dispensed with the apostrophe . that being the case , i thought my response to this reader might be of broader interest . here it is :
parents need to know that this movie has a brief scene of potty humor , in addition to references to casual relationships and infidelity . two of the characters participate in a non - explicit game of strip chess . a woman ' s head gets stuck on a man ' s pants in a suggestive way .
keep the conversation concise and positive . when going to speak with your boss , get to the point . you don’t have to tiptoe around the issue and chit - chat for ten minutes first . you also don’t have get into the specifics of your new gig . it’s okay to just say , “it’s an offer i can’t refuse , and i’m giving my notice effective immediately . ”
this was before i found sandra bullock attractive . hugh grant is serviceably dapper . oddly enough , years after i saw it for the first time , i still remember the beginning and ending with lucy ordering enough chinese food to feed a small village to reveal it was only for one , then at the end , for two . aww .
how can you tell whether a word is possessive or plural ? a possessive acts like an adjective , whereas a plural is a noun ( nominal ) . that is , the possessive form of a noun will nearly always have another noun after it . thus , the following reasoning is used in punctuating the phrase
two months ' vacation
:
lucy kelson ( bullock ) is an attorney who wants to save the world . george wade ( grant ) is a hapless billionaire who needs an assistant to help him with everything from choosing ties to choosing the proper mattress . together these two collide , banter , lock horns and make us once again ask the age old question - do opposites really attract ?
even if you work in a small , casual office , solidify your intention to resign in writing . clarify your desired departure date , and then outline how you propose to use your final days or weeks . got a project to finish ? lay out how you’ll do that here . offering to train a replacement ? spell it out . need to make a couple of final customer visits ? state your intentions in this letter .
are you willing to stay longer if asked ? your boss may ask you to stay on a week or two longer for more help in wrapping things up . is this a possibility for you ? even if it is , is it something you’re willing to do ? again , make sure you think through this question beforehand , so you don’t get guilted into something in the moment .
it’s true that at a big corporation , once you put in your resignation , they may immediately and unceremoniously escort you out the door . it’s also true that many companies , although they ask you to give them early notice of your resignation , would not afford you the same privilege when giving you the boot . this leads some to adopt the attitude of , “f that ! i don’t owe them anything ! i’ll quit and walk away the same day . ”
impressed with lucy , he agrees not to destroy the center but on the condition that she works in his company as chief counsel . lucy accepts the deal but soon realizes that her boss is a selfish ungrateful irresponsible playboy . little did she know that she would have to aid her boss in daily chores that of choosing a tie to picking up stationery , and she literally becomes a personal assistant to george . george does not hesitate to call her up at odd hours of midnight for his minor needs and working like that for a year , lucy becomes indispensable for george . his need for her gets comically obsessive . but lucy is extremely distressed and a day arrives when she finally decides to give up the job . she gives a ' 2 weeks notice ' to george in a bid to quit office . but george asks her to find a replacement . lucy manages to find a replacement : a beautiful lawyer from harvard - june carter ( alicia witt ) .
sandra bullock , who produced the film , knew just what she was doing , and how to do it . hugh grant knew just what he was getting into . some critics will claim they play their
usual roles ,
but grant in particular finds a new note , a little more abrupt , a little more daffy , than usual . and they bring to the movie what it must have : two people who we want to see kissing each other , and amusing ways to frustrate us until , of course , they finally do .
while truss says that
despair gave this book its impetus
, she does not sound despairing either in print or in person . the title itself is a joke , about an irate panda who walks into a cafe , orders a sandwich , eats it , draws a gun and fires two shots into the air . the waiter finds the explanation for this erratic behaviour in a badly punctuated wildlife manual which the bear leaves behind :
panda . large black - and - white bear - like mammal , native to china . eats , shoots and leaves .
tell your boss before anyone else . no matter how much you trust your colleagues to keep a secret , don’t let it slip to them by the watercooler that you’re about to bounce . also be careful about announcing things on social media before you give notice – basically , don’t do it . these things invariably have a way of getting back to the corner office , and no boss wants to hear about your departure through the grapevine . and you definitely don’t want to hear him say , “i know , ” when you finally tell him . once you decide to quit , inform your immediate supervisor first , your co - workers second .
to be fair , many people who couldn’t punctuate their way out of a paper bag are still interested in the way punctuation can alter the sense of a string of words . it is the basis of all “i’m sorry , i’ll read that again” jokes . instead of “what would you with the king ? ” you can have someone say in marlowe’s edward ii , “what ? would you ? with the king ? ” the consequences of mispunctuation ( and re - punctuation ) have appealed to both great and little minds , and in the age of the fancy - that email a popular example is the comparison of two sentences :
punctuation has been defined many ways . some grammarians use the analogy of stitching : punctuation as the basting that holds the fabric of language in shape . another writer tells us that punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language : they tell us to slow down , notice this , take a detour , and stop . i have even seen a rather fanciful reference to the full stop and comma as “the invisible servants in fairy tales – the ones who bring glasses of water and pillows , not storms of weather or love” . but best of all , i think , is the simple advice given by the style book of a national newspaper : that punctuation is “a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling” .
i am at a loss for words to adequately express how much it means to my husband and me to know that there is an organization like focus that is rooting for us . just today i was reading psalm 37 and thinking about how your ministry provides ways to ' dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture . ' we have two teenagers and an 8 - year - old in our household . . . plugged in has become a significant compass for our family . all three of our kids are dedicated to their walk with christ but they still encounter challenges . thanks for all of your research and persistence in helping us navigate through stormy waters .
the reason it’s worth standing up for punctuation is not that it’s an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over - sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied . the reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning . punctuation herds words together , keeps others apart . punctuation directs you how to read , in the way musical notation directs a musician how to play . as we shall see in the chapter on commas , it was first used by greek dramatists two thousand years ago to guide actors between breathing points – thus leading to the modern explanation of why a cat is not a comma :
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