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	Hooky the Cripple: The Grim Tale of a Hunchback Who Triumphs by Mark Read \| PopMatters Book Review
		Chopper lays down the facts only, allowing (well, hoping) the reader will then draw his own conclusions as to the barbarity of Hooky's actions towards Manuello the Butcher, and whether or not he deserved to have his brains leak out on the sidewalk.
		Chopper's lack of sugary sympathy mixed with Hooky's pathetic-ness, effectively endear the reader to his plight.
		Chopper even goes so far, at times, as to describe Hooky in all his horrid glory, consistently referring to him as Madonna's "hunchback bastard cripple son".
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/h/hooky-the-cripple.shtml (1187 words)

	Chopper Read - Melbourne Crime Scene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Read was released in 1998 after his dangerous criminal tag was overturned on appeal and the pair moved to a farmhouse at Richmond, Tasmania.
		Read said the movie was a s much a shock to him as it was to Keith Faure, Read's old rival who had complained in court that the depiction of his death at the start of the movie had caused him anxiety and caused him to crash his car into a pole.
		Read, the mother of Chopper's two year-old son,Charles, said she was disgusted by his comments on a national radio program that the marriage was a ploy to get him out of jail.
	www.melbournecrime.bizhosting.com /mread.htm (3372 words)

	chopper
		Chopper's later seen watching from his jail cell the TV program and checking out what others find fascinating about him, as if he was a neutral observer not caring what others think -- when the opposite seems to be true.
		When Chopper is told by Keithy George (David Field), the self-appointed leader of a group of prisoners, not to cross a line to his side of the prison rec room -- Chopper instead stabs him fatally in the neck and in court is exonerated as it's ruled an act of self-defense.
		Chopper is a big man who is covered in hideous body tattoos and looks alarming when he opens his mouth and shows his front teeth capped with metal.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/chopper.htm (844 words)

	Chopper Read - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Read married Australian Taxation Office employee Mary-Ann Hodge in 1995 while imprisoned in Risdon Prison in Tasmania for the shooting of his friend Sidney Collins.
		Read is the nephew of celebrity Australian physician Dr James Wright (ref: [3]).
		Five weeks later Read was sentenced to sixteen and half years' imprisonment on abduction-related charges for the attempted abduction of a County Court judge while on parole.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chopper_Read (1329 words)

	DVD Review: Chopper (2000)
		Mark "Chopper" Read became something of a celebrity in his native land because of his comfortable and affable approach, violent streak, and the distinct possibility that he's completely mad.
		The film allows Read to be unapologetic about some of the crimes that he has committed, instead focusing on the nature of the situations led him down such a path.
		Read aks another inmate to chop his ears off as he sits on a chair grinning, yelling and bleeding all over the place.
	www.lightsoutfilms.com /dvd_chopper.html (701 words)

	'Chopper'
		Chopper (Eric Bana) is the repulsive yet fascinating focus of "Chopper," a fictionalized account of a real Aussie criminal opening today at the Squirrel Hill Theater.
		The name Mark "Chopper" Read apparently is as well known Down Under as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer are here -- although Read reportedly is retired from crime and living with his wife and child on a Tasmanian ranch.
		His Chopper is a skillful liar, a violent man, yet embarrassed by any hints of kindness, who is prone to acting first and thinking later (if at all).
	www.post-gazette.com /movies/20010601chopper6.asp (545 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Chopper
		Chopper then cuts to 1986, where Read is out of the joint and working as a rat for the cops, but also trying to re-integrate himself to life in Australia outside of prison.
		Read enjoys being an outlaw figure, one romanticized by popular fiction, and it is that personality that anchors the film.
		Read is a real person, and it is for the viewer to sort through his tall tales.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/c/chopper.q.shtml (535 words)

	Chopper movie review, In Film Australia
		A film like ‘Chopper’ cannot afford to take this stance because there is too much to lose and, wisely, Dominik doesn’t treat his viewers like consumer purchasing morons who come to the cinema just to put bums on seats and choctops in hands.
		What is uncomfortable about ‘Chopper’ is that its lead character seems like one of us, a _human_, a vulnerable person, and not an American Psycho who kills for spite or fun or because he can.
		It may seem as if the universe of Chopper Read is around the wrong way, but that’s only because the film doesn’t tell us which point of view to observe from.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/chopper.htm (919 words)

	The Monkeyhouse Lounge: Chopper
		Chopper is a good movie that is catapulted into being a great movie by the strength of the performance of Eric Bana as the title character.
		Chopper is the supposed true story of Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read, an Australian anti-hero who has made a name for himself by writing books from prison, developing a cult following down under.
		Chopper is a very funny movie but after I found myself laughing, I realized that I was laughing at the character and not the situation.
	www.monkeyhouselounge.com /reviews/chopper.html (841 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Australia's most lethal export
		In 1987 Read was acquitted - on the grounds of self-defence - of killing drug dealer Siam "Sammy the Turk" Ozerkam after shooting him through the eye outside a nightclub.
		Read, whose nickname comes from a TV cartoon character, robbed massage parlours and took on contracts to maim and kill rivals throughout the 1970s.
		Read himself recalls one incident: "There was one case in court where the judge gave me two and a half years and I said: 'Two and a half years?
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/1037417.stm (812 words)

	Chopper (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chopper is an Australian 2000 drama-crime thriller-fl comedy film written and directed by Andrew Dominik based on the semi-autobiographical books by Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read.
		Read is an infamous Australian criminal, convicted for wounding a man and attempting to kidnap a judge, and who has admitted to murdering many people.
		However the police are not as glad as he is and when Chopper learns that he is now the target of a contract, he goes after his old friend Jimmy, only to find him worn out by drugs, two children and a junkie fiancée.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chopper_(movie) (650 words)

	Chopper Read
		As a criminal "Chopper" Read is a failure because he has spent most of his adult life in jail, but as a writer he is a best-seller.
		Read launched a 5 year battle to get his prison status changed from "dangerous" offender to a lesser degree so that he could eventually be released.
		Standover man "Chopper" Read is released from prison and outrages politicians, civil libertarians and literary critics.
	www.aussiebooks.com.au /category18_1.htm (470 words)

	Fast Forward : Film and DVD Reviews
		But where Chopper deviates from the standard fare is that it reveals Read to be a liar, a psychopath, and an egomaniac devoid of any sense of right or wrong.
		The overall effect is that Read appears to be living in a separate reality to the destruction around him, blissfully unaware of the pain he inflicts.
		Chopper stands out because it is the perfect antidote to the public fascination with, and glamorization of, hardened criminals.
	www.ffwdmag.com /filmchopper.htm (343 words)

	Chopper Movie Review at Hollywood Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		One of Australia's most nefarious criminals, the real-life Read admits to having killed at least 16 people, all of them drug dealers or other "scum." But Bana's Read is also a hell of a nice guy: After lacerating an inmate's throat in prison, he cries, apologizes, and offers him a cigarette.
		Chopper shows Read doing just that several times in court — picturing his own version of events in his mind, Rashomon-style, to help his story seem genuine on the witness stand.
		When Read has a jealous argument with his prostitute girlfriend Tanya (Kate Beahan), he screams, "Who you fkin'?!?" Nonplussed, she retorts, "Everyone, Mark — I work in a brothel!" The fight soon escalates, with Read** punching out Tanya's fiftyish mother and head-butting the unfortunate hooker.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=131686 (1028 words)

	Part one: Film Information
		Mark "Chopper" Read is the son of a greatly religious mother and a father who is an ex-soldier.
		Chopper attempts to justify his increasingly unpredictable behaviour with lies and distortions, but Jimmy attacks him and stabs him, torn between their friendship, and his own instinct to survive.
		Chopper hears about a ‘contract’ that Bartos might have out on him, and consequently pays a visit on his old mate Jimmy, only to discover that Jimmy has been ravaged by years of drug abuse and failure with two children and another on the way to his junkie fiancee, Mandy.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/film/dbase/2001/chopper.html (2297 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| 'Chopper'
		CHOPPER Read earned his nickname for an act of self-directed mutilation.
		One day, he persuaded a fellow inmate to slash the tops of his (Read's) ears off to demonstrate to the authorities that he was sick enough to be transferred to the psycho ward.
		Read, who went on to write nine books, could be described as a creation of the media, for whom he loved to grandstand.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/05.03.01/chopper-0118.html (578 words)

	MARK "CHOPPER" READS' UNDERWORLD CAVE!
		Chopper is back as himself, doing all the stuff that has made him the man that he is. He has dropped the crime fiction theme and gone back to cold hard underworld facts and his new life as a chicken farmer.
		Read is the author of nine crime novels which have sold over 500,000 coppies in Australia and in 1997 he top secretly recorded a music CD, while serving a custodial sentance in a maximum security jail in Tasmania (Risdon Prison).
		Read back into court, as he was charged with being in possesion of photos of himself with firearms and he faced court back in late October 1998.
	members.tripod.com /~Chopper_Read (2879 words)

	Chopper Read (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Chopper Got His Nickname from a Cartoon called “chopper and yakky doodle Chopper was the Dog who always Protected Yakky the little Duck from Danger.
		Chopper has been convicted of armed robberies, a shooting, assault and kidnapping a judge.
		Chopper was apparently armed with gelignite and a fearful Gangitano escaped through a rear exit.
	www.angelfire.com /vamp/chopper_read (643 words)

	Chopper
		The story of Chopper is not as compelling as the performance in the movie of Eric Bana, the actor who portrays Chopper.
		Mark "Chopper" Read is a best-selling author and convicted murderer.
		Chopper is so extreme that he is a caricature.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/chopper.html (482 words)

	Chopper review
		Chopper is a film detailing several momentous events in the life of notorious Australian criminal, and best-selling author, Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read.
		Chopper Read was and still is a larger-than-life figure, who has been in and out of prison for most of his life.
		It is inventiveness like this that makes Chopper stand out from many recent Australian films, which have usually tried so hard to distinguish themselves from US product that they become too arty for their own good.
	www.moviemutterings.com /reviews/c/chopper.htm (674 words)

	Chopper
		Nevertheless, Chopper is witty, has a heart when he wants it, and he succeeds at manipulating police and helping them rid the town of the sordid underworld.
		However, not Chopper, whose jacket is armed with guns and his head with speed, and who voyages throughout the night from one pub to the other threatening and looking cautiously over his shoulder.
		Sadistic characters like Chopper exist in all walks of life and they manifest themselves in various ways; however they are part, or perhaps victims, of society and locking them up only hardens and angers their souls and we must be prepared to confront their needs.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/00/9/chopper.html (1849 words)

	Review - Chopper (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Destined for cult status because of its bold cinematic style and uncompromising attitude toward violence, the Australian film, "Chopper," is a powerful and gut-wrenching look inside the mind of a psychotic killer--a man who became a true celebrity down-under, even going as far as to write a best-selling autobiography whilst in prison.
		A man of extremely questionable moral standing, Read took considerable pleasure in torturing and killing people he thought were ruining society, the likes of drug dealers, for example, were often at the receiving end of his psychotic rage.
		Indeed it's hard to comprehend some of the things Read is shown doing in the film without laughing; so absurd is his contradictory attitude about the evils of society, when he himself thinks nothing of walking the streets with about six guns in his jacket, or beating his girlfriend and her mother.
	www.cinetalk.org /review_chopper.htm (505 words)

	Moviehole.net - Sequel to Chopper in the works?
		According to the legendary Melbournian crook himself, Mark Brandon ‘Chopper’ Read, a sequel to the 2000 hit “Chopper”, in which Bana rose to fame playing the titular underworld figure, is in the works, but the original star has refused to appear in it.
		Instead, Read tells News.com.au, a new actor will be bought in to wear the thongs and don the clipped ears of Pentridge Prison’s former favourite inmate.
		“Chopper” (2000), from director Andrew Dominik, summarised the events of Read’s life as one of Australia’s most prolific criminals.
	www.moviehole.net /news/20060223_sequel_to_chopper_in_the_works.html (383 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Chopper'
		One day, he convinced a fellow inmate to slash the tops of his ears off to demonstrate to the authorities that he was sick enough to be transferred to the psycho ward.
		As Bana plays him, Chopper is a man dismayed by his own violence, with a pitying streak for the people he hurts.
		Chopper (R; 94 min.), directed and written by Andrew Dominik, photographed by Geoffrey Hall and Kevin Hayward and starring Eric Bana, opens Friday at the Towne Theater in San Jose.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/04.26.01/chopper-0117.html (611 words)

	TIME Pacific \| Australian Psycho \| August 14, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		In 1998, and just released from jail, Read made Australians squirm in their living rooms when he appeared drunk and barely orderly on a TV chat show.
		Chopper seldom pauses for thought, and what a contradictory creature he is. He maims a fellow inmate, then tosses him a cigarette, which floats in a pool of blood.
		Read craves attention, yet becomes a gibbering mess of paranoia in public.
	www.time.com /time/pacific/magazine/20000814/chopper.html (550 words)

	Chopper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The Australian film Chopper is a frightening depiction of habitual criminal and murderer Mark “Chopper” Read.
		Chopper is an incredible character; unpredictable, a swirling wind of dark fl clouds, violent, innocent, loud and always dangerous.
		In prison, Read asserts himself, proving himself number one in his cell block.
	www.filmsondisc.com /dvdpages/chopper.htm (501 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Chopper [2000]: DVD: Eric Bana,Simon Lyndon,David Field,Daniel Wyllie,Bill Young,Vince Colosimo,Kenny ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		A great Australian movie, Chopper is loosely based on the autobiography of career crim Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read, whose attention-seeking mix of psychotic violence and matey ingratiation made him an outcast even in the underworld and finally--with bizarre logic--turned him into a bestselling celebrity without any need for repentance and regeneration.
		Chopper tells the story of mark brandon chopper read who wrote a book recalling his life and this is the film adaption of that book and what a film this makes,as the adventures of chopper have to be seen to be believed.
		Chopper is a surprisingly exhilarating and tightly paced fictionalised biography of one of Australia's most famous modern crims, the charismatic but unpredictably violent Mark `Chopper' Read.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Chopper-Eric-Bana/dp/B000058CBU (1141 words)

	CHOPPER BODY
		Unfortunately, Chopper's brief foray into television merely served to heighten existing preconceptions of the project, confirming for many that 'such a person' did not deserve to be the subject of a film.
		It could be argued that as a child, Chopper was not given the right set of rules to develop by, although in his books he refuses to lay the blame for his actions on Keith.
		CHOPPER was at the opposite end of the spectrum to Ryan's previous assignment, PASSION, the costume drama that explored the life of eccentric pianist/composer, Percy Grainger.
	pweb.netcom.com /~aktci/chopperbody.html (8400 words)

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