What Ever Happened To The Person In The Movie?

I am a fan of movies based on real life (especially crime). I got sick of wondering what ever happened to the people depicted in the movies. So, I decided to post what I could find. If you have a movie title, and you want to learn "what happened next", reply below and I will see what I can do.

The Accused - Jodie Foster - film is based on the real-life gang rape of Cheryl Araujo - Although her identity was shielded during the trial, Araujo subsequently went public and became an activist for women's and victims' rights. Araujo was essentially ostracized in New Bedford, however, and shortly after the trial moved to Miami along with her two daughters and their father -- Araujo's high school sweetheart -- to find anonymity. Araujo had entered school to become a secretary, was making a life for herself and had found some measure of happiness.
On Dec. 14, 1986, she lost control of her car while taking her daughters to a Christmas show and struck a utility pole. The girls were injured, but not seriously. Araujo, however, died in the crash. She was 25 years old.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Requium - both based loosely on Anneliese Michel - Anneliese experienced what is recognized by medical professionals as severe psychiatric disturbances from the age of 16 to her death, at age 23, as a direct or indirect result of an exorcism ritual. Both priests who performed the exorcism and Anneliese's parents were convicted of negligent homicide. The Catholic Church, which had authorized the exorcism, reversed its position and declared Anneliese Michel a case of mental illness. Many people believe she was genuinely possessed by demons, and her grave-site is a destination for pilgrims to this day.

Fire & Rain (used to be shown on USA a lot) - Based on the crash of Delta flight 191 - This accident is one of the few commercial air crashes in which the meteorological phenomenon known as microburst-induced wind shear was a direct contributing factor. - Don Estridge, known to the world as the father of the IBM PC, was killed aboard this flight along with much of the IBM executive team responsible for that project. The loss arguably put IBM at a competitive disadvantage against competitors such as Compaq. Since that accident, IBM's corporate travel policy has prohibited more than two company executives travelling on the same commercial airline flight

Girl Interrupted - Winony Ryder portrays Susanna Kaysen - Some years after leaving McLean, Susanna visits Georgina, who is now married and still quite unconventional. Susanna bumps into Lisa, who has a son and lives in Brookline, outside of a subway station. Georgina is now an emotionally healthy woman. Daisy commits suicide. Polly's whereabouts are unknown.

Goodfellas - Henry's marriage to Karen ended in separation with her getting custody of their children, and Cicero and Conway will practically spend the rest of their lives in prison. Cicero died in 1988. Conway's title card explains that he was eligible for parole in 2004, though in real life he died in prison in 1996.

Heavenly Creatures - Pauline Parker - Upon release, Pauline apparently spent some time in New Zealand under close surveillance before being allowed to leave for England. As of 1997, she was living in the small village of Hoo near Strood, Kent, under the name "Hilary Nathan," and running a children's riding school. She has become a devout Roman Catholic and extremely remorseful about having killed her mother. Juliet Hulme (aka Anne Perry) - After being released from prison, Juliet returned to England and became a flight attendant. For a period she lived in the United States, where she joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She later settled in the Scottish village of Portmahomack where she lived with her mother. Her father went on to a distinguished scientific career, heading the British hydrogen bomb programme.
Juliet took the name "Anne Perry", the latter being her step-father's surname. Her first novel, The Cater Street Hangman, was published under this name in 1979. Her works generally fall into one of several categories of genre fiction, including historical murder mysteries and detective fiction. Many of them feature a number of recurring characters, most importantly Thomas Pitt, who appeared in her first novel, and amnesiac private inspector William Monk, who first appeared in her 1990 novel The Face of a Stranger. As of 2003 she had published 47 novels, and several collections of short stories. Her story "Heroes", which first appeared the 1999 anthology Murder and Obsession, edited by Otto Penzler, won the 2001 Edgar Award for Best Short Story.
Pauline (under another name) still lives in New Zealand. She and Anne are not believed to have had any contact since their trial, as required by the conditions of their release. (NZ Herald). Recently Perry was included as an entry in Ben Peek's Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth, a novel exploring the nature of truth in literature.[2]

The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story - 1988 made-for-TV film based on the actual hijacking of TWA Flight 847 as seen through the eyes of Uli Derickson, the chief flight attendant. Derickson herself acted as a consultant for the movie. Derickson was still working as a flight attendant, for Delta Air Lines, when she received a diagnosis of cancer in August 2003. She died on February 18, 2005, at the age of 60.

The Three Faces of Eve - Based on the life of Chris Costner-Sizemore - Costner-Sizemore reports feeling exploited and objectified by the media blitz surrounding the book and film. Upon discovering in 1988 that her legal rights to her own life story had been signed away to 20th Century Fox by Thigpen, Costner-Sizemore went to Manhattan's Federal District Court to contest the contract, and won.

Do You Want Fries With That Ass Kicking?

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A troublesome trio of transvestites allegedly laid siege to a Memphis McDonald's restaurant Sunday night, sparking a brawl with the restaurant's crew, according to reports.
Police said they were working on a more detailed description of three men dressed in drag who came into a McDonald's restaurant and started swinging.
Restaurant employee Martez Brisco was working the drive-through window when he reportedly got into an argument with the suspects. When Brisco ignored them tapping at the window, they came in.
"They come to the window, 'Tap, tap, tap.' I'm still ignoring them," Brisco told WMC-TV. "I guess that just pissed them off worser."
Click here to read the WMC-TV.com report.
The transvestites allegedly struck the manager with a tire iron, and when he swung back, the drag queens took off their stiletto boots, removed their earrings and prepared to attack. The manager, Albert Bolton, was covered with scratch marks after suspects clawed him with their fingernails.
Bolton grabbed a pot of scalding french-fry grease and hurled it at his attackers. One of the cross-dressers then smacked Bolton with a wet floor sign, sending him to the hospital in an ambulance, WMC-TV reported.
Before driving off, the three attackers smashed the drive-through window.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

EWWW

The decription of these gross things reminds me of Dots candy (which I will now never eat again in my lifetime)

In September, wildlife experts tried to assure the public that the jellylike blobs ("millions of tiny organisms known as zooids," wrote The Dallas Morning News) attached to trees and dock pilings along Grapevine Lake between Dallas and Fort Worth were harmless. [Dallas Morning News, 9-12-07]

Scandal Effectiveness

It seems that every week, that there is a new headline about corporate corruption or child pornography. However, this highly efficient executive decided to cover both areas at once!

Hawaiian Airlines is suing Mesa Air Group on a business matter and believes Mesa's chief financial officer, Peter Murnane, has, or had, documents relevant to the lawsuit on his office computer but that, recently, conveniently, the documents had been deleted. Mesa acknowledged in a September court filing that Murnane had indeed recently erased a huge number of files from his office computer, but said he was merely deleting his massive collection of pornography. [Honolulu Advertiser, 9-26-07]

Talk About Lovers Leap!

Police in Bakersfield, Calif., came to the aid of a man and a woman at the bottom of the Panorama Bluffs near town and told reporters later that the man had attempted to toss his girlfriend over the cliff but that she grabbed him, and the pair tumbled down 300 feet together (and that he was hurt worse than she).

I Love Irony

I absolutely ADORE Irony. Those little "gotcha" moments really make your brain sit up and think about life, and it's interworkings. Sometimes the amount of ironic occurances in my life make me just sit back and wonder if life is a big cosmic practical joke. I found myself contemplating irony and it's wonderous depths inside our government after I saw this posting on News of the Werd. Read on:

In October, following 18 months' investigation, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission concluded that the state government requires too many reports (a total of more than 1,600). The commission issued its findings in a 668-page report. [Houston Chronicle-AP, 10-29-07]