By Makayla Muscat For Daily Mail Australia and Jessica Wang And Eleanor Campbell For Nca Newswire

Published: 01:21 EDT, 7 April 2024 | Updated: 01:48 EDT, 7 April 2024

It’s worth remembering that “Alien” is rife with genital imagery, mostly taken from H.R. Giger’s works. Giger’s paintings tended to blend the mechanical and the organic, often envisioning a post-apocalyptic hell wherein human-like figures were still beholden to sexual impulses, but whose bodies had been partially absorbed into ineffable, tube-sprouting contraptions. Indeed, the design for the Xenomorph itself comes from a painting called “Necronom IV,” wherein a human-shaped figure sported a skull that was extending backward into a massive phallus. The creature’s own phallus was large enough to extend upward over its own head. The movie Xenomorph was, not to put too fine a point on it, a penis monster. 

It would aesthetically follow, then, that the alien eggs should also feature genital features. Giger designed a vulval opening in the top of the egg, further expressing his own genital-heavy interests. When that idea was rejected, Giger pivoted to the “cross shape” as an impish piece of satire; if the filmmakers were going to be puritanical about genital imagery, then he’d provide a Christian design to placate the prudes. Roger Christian said it thus: 

“The first ones he did looked much more like a woman’s private parts, and the producers all worried. […] Giger said, ‘Well, if it’s a cross, then it’s religious, and people don’t worry about that.'”

The final design of the egg isn’t so much Christian as it is cardiovascular; the four-flapped egg opening looks like an outsize heart valve. It may have been Giger’s sneaky Christian “prank,” however, that would inform director Ridley Scott when he made his prequel film “Prometheus” in 2012. 

• Tziporah Malkah allegedly had pictures shared without her consent
• Taylor Auerbach was questioned about while giving evidence in court 
• READ MORE: Who is Taylor Auerbach? 

By Max Aitchison For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 23:45 EDT, 6 April 2024 | Updated: 23:47 EDT, 6 April 2024

Tziporah Malkah has contacted police after a former Seven Network producer admitted to circulating semi-naked pictures of her without her consent. 

The former model and actress was dragged into the Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial last week when ex-Spotlight producer Taylor Auerbach was questioned about his ‘hatred’ for his former friend and colleague Steve Jackson. 

Mr Auerbach, whose explosive 2,300-page affidavit alleged the Seven Network covered the cost of lavish dinners, cocaine and Thai prostitutes for Mr Lehrmann, waged a vicious briefing campaign against Mr Jackson’s appointment to the role of chief spin doctor for NSW Police commissioner Karen Webb last month. 

Part of that campaign involved sharing topless images of Malkah taken during an interview she gave to Mr Jackson and Mr Auerbach at her Elizabeth Bay home in 2019.

Mr Auerbach admitted in open court on Wednesday that he had shared the images without Malkah’s consent.

Former model and actress Tziporah Malkah (pictured) was dragged into the Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial last week when ex-Spotlight producer Taylor Auerbach (pictured below) was questioned about his ‘hatred’ for his former friend and colleague Steve Jackson

The model, formerly known as Kate Fischer, said Mr Auerbach’s actions were ‘completely unacceptable’, revealing she had filed a police report.

‘An individual with whom I was once vaguely acquainted, has decided to use images of me in his personal vendetta against a former male friend and colleague of his,’ Malkah told The Sunday Telegraph. 

‘I believed that it was my duty to immediately report this activity to the police.

‘The experience is deeply personal, hurtful, frightening and degrading. 

‘I am very angry and hurt that I was made an unwilling accomplice to a man’s vindictive, spiteful vendetta against an erstwhile friend of his.’

Malkah previously told the newspaper that she had been ‘at her lowest ebb’ when the pictures were taken on Christmas Eve in 2019.

The one-time fiancee of billionaire James Packer had met Mr Auerbach and Mr Jackson at a pub that day to discuss a story about one of her properties.

The trio went back to Malkah’s Elizabeth Bay address where she later took her top off and was pictured sitting on her sofa alongside Mr Jackson.

There is no suggestion of wrongdoing on Mr Jackson’s behalf. 

The images were circulated to journalists last month. 

Mr Lehrmann’s barrister Matthew Richardson asked Mr Auerbach if he had been involved in the distribution of semi-naked photographs of a woman sitting on a couch with Mr Jackson.

‘Is that true?’ Mr Richardson asked.

‘Yes, sir,’’ Mr Auerbach replied.

The barrister then said to Mr Auerbach: ‘So you sent those photographs to media organisations didn’t you?’

Mr Lehrmann’s barrister Matthew Richardson asked Mr Auerbach if he had been involved in the distribution of semi-naked photographs of a woman sitting on a couch with Mr Jackson

Mr Auerbach, whose explosive 2,300-page affidavit alleged the Seven network covered the cost of lavish dinners, cocaine and Thai prostitutes for Mr Lehrmann, waged a vicious briefing campaign against Steve Jackson’s appointment to the role of chief spin doctor for NSW Police commissioner Karen Webb last month (the former friends and colleagues are pictured together)

‘You did not obtain the consent of the woman in question to do this. Did you know you were aware that it was a criminal act to send photographs… to third parties without consent?

‘No,’ Mr Auerbach responded.

It is not the first time Malkah has been the alleged victim of revenge porn.

A man she knew leaked a naked video to television networks in May 2018. 

The 90s star said her naked body had hardly been blurred by the television stations airing the footage without her consent.

‘Shock, betrayal, humiliation… how could this be happening? This can’t be real. How could this be legal?’ she told a court in 2022.

The one-time fiancee of billionaire James Packer (pictured, with Tziporah Malkah) had met Mr Auerbach and Mr Jackson at a pub that day to discuss a story about one of her properties

The most important decision was filling the director’s chair for this one. Joe Johnston, who helmed “First Avenger,” did not return for the follow-up. Marvel, instead, turned to up-and-coming directors who had yet to make a blockbuster. They landed on the Russo Brothers, a duo known for work on shows like “Community” and “Arrested Development” who, on paper, did not at all seem like the obvious choice to tackle a big-budget comic book movie. Yet this would prove to be one of the most consequential decisions Marvel Studios would ever make.

“To us, when we knew it was about the Winter Soldier storyline, we couldn’t run faster to the meeting at Marvel,” Joe Russo said in a 2014 interview from the film’s set. Ultimately, Marvel felt they were right for the gig (in part thanks to a kind word from Steven Soderbergh). Speaking a bit more, Russo revealed the films that inspired them in crafting the picture:

“There is certainly a very strong element of espionage like a political thriller. I mean this movie draws upon ‘The French Connection’ and ‘The Conversation’ and ‘Three Days of the Condor’ and all of these ’70s thrillers in a way that there is paranoia and mistrust at the heart of the movie.”

Those were, to say the least, unexpected influences for a Marvel comic book movie. But it gelled with what Marcus and McFeely put on the page, and it helped set the movie apart. They had the actors train hard. They tried to make the fights look and feel real. As Anthony Russo explained in the same interview:

“The movie was shot largely in a very verite style, which is unique for Marvel’s movies. They really embraced the approach to it, and it’s a very experimental approach. It’s a very grounding approach. There’s a strong edge to the film. It’s very visceral. It’s got a lot of action in it, but I think it’s definitely a movement, tonally, in a different direction. It’s just great to be able to add another color to the pastiche of these movies.”

• Longtime partner of Peter Brock died
• Bev Brock diagnosed with cancer two years ago 

By Freddy Pawle For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 22:58 EDT, 6 April 2024 | Updated: 23:39 EDT, 6 April 2024

The longtime partner of Peter Brock has died after a battle with cancer.

Bev Brock died at the age of 77 at her Melbourne home on Sunday, two years after she was diagnosed with stage four cancer.

Despite never marrying, Bev took Peter’s surname through deed poll and spent just under three decades together before splitting in 2005. 

The pair had two children together, daughter Alexandra and son Robert.

Bev also had son James, with her first husband James McIntosh.

‘Bev was a dedicated parent, always making time to make a costume for plays or help out on a school camp,’ her son, James Brock, wrote on Facebook.

‘She dedicated her life to helping Peter’s racing career taking on multiple roles, all met with skill, smarts and purpose.’

Former longtime partner of racing legend Peter Brock, Bev (pictured) has died after a two-year battle with stage four cancer

Bev was well known as a supportive figure for Peter throughout his illustrious racing career before turning to charity work and becoming an author.

She wrote two books about her former partner after their split and an autobiography about the pair’s private life.

Her dedication to charity work was recognised in 2016 when she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal.

US based racer, Kenny Habul, remembered his longtime friend as ‘an incredible person who led an amazing and full life’.   

‘She battled tenaciously the last few years, but was always positive and presented herself with dignity, enthusiasm and displayed such strength. It was inspirational to be around her,’ he said.

‘She had a real passion and interest in motorsport, well after Peter passed and was genuinely proud when we won the Bathurst 12 Hour.

‘Bev really was one of the matriarchs of Australian motorsport and will be sadly missed.’

Mr Habul reminisced on Peter once telling him that Bev is ‘one in a million’, adding ‘that she was’.

Bev spent just under three decades with racing legend, Peter Brock (left), and was remembered as a ‘dedicated parent’ by her son, James (middle)

Peter would go on to tragically die during a car crash in the Targa West Rally a year after their split.

He was given a state funeral in Victoria in honour of his nine victories at Bathurst, earning him the moniker ‘king of the mountain’.

Bev said Peter did everything ‘in the public eye and… with a flourish and a bang’ and endorsed the funeral as it was how ‘he would want to be remembered’.

Peter would however leave behind a complex estate across three wills, sparking a three-year legal dispute between Bev and his family.

Bev is survived by three children and seven grandchildren. 

In Germany, the display of Nazi imagery, the flying of Nazi flags, and the vaunting of Nazi rhetoric are illegal, unless they are being presented in either an artistic or educational context. Indeed, only 11 countries around the world legally allow the display of Nazi images: Canada, Finland, Iran, Japan, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Taiwan, Switzerland, and the United States. Germany has also made Holocaust Denial illegal, as did they the wearing of Nazi uniforms and participation in Nazi-themed websites. A portion of their laws called Section 130 has strictly criminalized hate speech, which bans, according to Dateline, “incitement to hatred and insults that assault human dignity against people based on their racial, national, religious, or ethnic background.” 

Section 130 was written in the 1870s, but took on new life in the early 1950s to assure that Nazism remain silenced. It wouldn’t be until 1994 that Holocaust Denial was banned explicitly. 

“Patterns of Force” may fall in the exception mentioned above for “artistic context,” but the makers of the episode — director Vincent McEveety and writer John Meredyth Lucas — mishandled the episode’s messaging. “Patterns of Force” may end with the defeat of the Nazi regime, but not before a character explicitly complimented how efficient the Nazi Party was. Dialogue complimenting Nazis was not allowed in Germany under Section 130, and the episode was banned from broadcast. It’s the only “Star Trek” episode to have that distinction. 

Indeed, “Patterns” remained banned for many years. When “Star Trek” returned to German TV in the 1970s, “Patterns” was left out of the rotation. The episode wasn’t dubbed into German until 1995 and only showed on pay TV in 1996. The first public German broadcast of “Patterns of Force” occurred in 2011. 

Locals of a small country town at the centre of an alleged mushroom poisoning lunch that left three people dead have voiced their anger over a nasty rumour. 

The 5,000 resident-strong town of Korumburra in South Gippsland, Victoria, was thrust into the spotlight after three people died from ingesting a beef wellington allegedly laced with death cap mushrooms in July, 2023.

Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, all died within days of eating the meal allegedly prepared by the Patterson’s former daughter-in-law, Erin Patterson, at her home in Leongatha.

Heather’s husband, Baptist church pastor Ian Wilkinson, 68, narrowly avoided the same fate while Patterson’s husband Simon pulled out of the lunch.

Patterson was charged with three counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder – four of which are from previous incidents with her husband – in November.

The case sparked a media frenzy, with many residents claiming the rumour mill went ‘into overdrive’ and portrayed them as ‘cult-like’ religious fanatics.

Residents of the small town at the centre of an alleged poisonous mushroom lunch, Korumburra (pictured), has hit out against harmful rumour mills surrounding the case

A number of Korumburra residents attended a private memorial for Don, Gail and Heather at the Baptist church, where Mr Wilkinson was a pastor, shortly after the deaths.

Both couples’ Catholic beliefs alongside images of residents mourning them were spread across the globe, sparking rumours the town was deeply religious.

Former South Gippsland Shire mayor, Nathan Hersey, said the narratives surrounding the town involved residents being an ‘overly religious, cult-like people’.

‘But it’s just a regular country town filled with great people in a very picturesque and beautiful place,’ Mr Hersey told The Mushroom Cook podcast.

The former mayor fielded an ‘onslaught’ of media requests posed to the council from Aussie and international news outlets, including The New York Times and BBC.

He said he was fronting the media as much as three times per day when the story was at its most read.

A local, who asked to remain anonymous, said the public was ‘quick to judge’ the town and its residents after the incident.

‘So many assumptions were made about us country folk soon after the deaths,’ he told the Herald Sun.

‘I think there were a perception that we picked our food from the ground and were really religious and that’s just not the case.’

The resident said the religious beliefs of some wasn’t a reflection on the broader community, adding that ‘we are just normal people with normal lives’. 

Erin Patterson (pictured) has been charged with three counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder over the incident which sparked an international media circus

Residents said the investigation and media attention led to rumours that the town was full of ‘cult-like’ religious fanatics (pictured, police at the scene)

Patterson is currently awaiting trial for the alleged incident and has been remanded in Victoria’s Dame Phyllis Frost Centre – a maximum security jail that can hold 600 women. 

Victoria Police spent 20 weeks preparing a brief of evidence against Patterson.

A large portion of the investigation was centred on Patterson’s home and utilised a specialist canine unit to sniff-out electronic devices. 

The prosecution will rely on the photos and witnesses’ statements conducted by police as evidence for Patterson’s alleged crimes.

The accused mushroom chef is due to next appear in Latrobe Valley Magistrates’ Court via video-link for a committal hearing on May 3.

Pastor Ian Wilkinson was the only one to survive the lunch, which claimed the life of his wife Heather Wilkinson, 66. He spent almost two months in hospital (the pair are pictured together)

Gail Patterson and brother-in-law Don Patterson, both 70, perished following the lunch

Finally, since every golfer needs more than just a good-looking outfit to be a pro, RSVLTS also has some accessories that will make all your opponents jealous.

First up, there’s a trio of golf club covers: one featuring the one-eyed alligator who took Chubbs’ hand, another with the clown from Happy Land Mini Golf, and one more with the design of Happy Gilmore’s hockey jersey. What better way to keep your clubs free of dust?

RSVLTS

On top of that, so you don’t have to worry about a caddy taking your quarter or using valuable crackers, RSVLTS also has these “Happy Gilmore” ball markers. There’s Chubbs’ taped-up hand, the alligator with a golf ball in his mouth, junior hockey Happy Gilmore with his big hair, Mr. Larson bending Shooter’s golf club, Ben Stiller’s nursing home orderly shushing Happy’s grandma, and Happy’s caddy wearing a beer-dispensing helmet. You’ll always know where your ball is on the green with these fun markers.

Plus, RSVLTS has a bunch of other items from their first “Happy Gilmore” collection that are still available in their online shop, so check them out now. 

By Max Aitchison and Tita Smith For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 21:06 EDT, 6 April 2024 | Updated: 21:38 EDT, 6 April 2024

A man accused of murdering a young female teacher he had met through a dating app has reportedly been found dead in his cell.

Ashley Gaddie, 33, committed suicide at Clarence Correctional Centre at about 3.15pm on Saturday, reported The Daily Telegraph.

His body was found in prison 16 months after police alleged he strangled Dannielle Finlay-Jones at her friend’s home in Cranebrook, in Sydney’s far west, on December 18, 2022. 

Ashley Gaddie reportedly committed suicide at Clarence Correctional Centre at about 3.15pm on Saturday 

His body was found in prison 16 months after police alleged he killed Dannielle Finlay-Jones at Cranebrook, in Sydney’s far west 

Gaddie and Ms Finlay-Jones, 31, had met on a dating app and had been on two dates prior to the evening of December 17 last year, according to police allegations.

Police claim the couple attended a social event that night at a pub in Marsden Park where Ms Finlay-Jones introduced Gaddie as her new partner.

They left before midnight to stay with a friend of Ms Finlay-Jones at her home in Cranebrook.

The teacher was last seen alive when she entered a spare bedroom with Gaddie shortly after midnight, police allege.

One of the residents was woken at 3am by what they described as ‘loud violent sex’ between Ms Finlay-Jones and Gaddie, according to police.

Pictured: The Cranebrook home where Dannielle Finlay-Jones was found dead on December 18, 2022

After three days on the run, police found Gladdie standing on a cliff edge at Fletcher’s Lookout in the NSW Blue Mountains (pictured) where they eventually coaxed him down after a tense, 12-hour stand-off 

At 2.30pm, her friends realised it was strange they hadn’t heard from the new couple since the previous night.

One of her friends allegedly found Ms Finlay-Jones’ lifeless body lying on her back on the bedroom floor.

Court documents revealed that police alleged Ms Finlay-Jones suffered bruising to her face and that officers found finger impressions on her throat. 

Police alleged the teacher was murdered either during or after the ‘loud violent sex’ heard by the witness.

Gaddie and Ms Finlay-Jones had met on a dating app  

Gladdie fled the property by cutting a hole in the flyscreen of the window.

Two days after Ms Finlay-Jones was killed, court documents show Gaddie called his mother.

‘We slept in separate beds,’ he allegedly told her.

‘I didn’t do it, I f****** panicked … I woke up at 9.30 and there’s a f****** body in the next room.’

After three days on the run, police found Gladdie standing on a cliff edge at Fletcher’s Lookout in the NSW Blue Mountains.

After a 12-hour stand-off he was arrested and later charged with murder. 

More to come.  

Coppola’s “The Conversation” is the brilliant paranoid thriller he made in between “The Godfather” and “The Godfather Part II.” Creatively, he was on fire. From shot composition to casting to design to music, he knew precisely what these films required.

Every element of “The Conversation” is extraordinary, but David Shire’s nerve-jangling, piano-heavy score (interspersed with some jazzy cues) goes a long way toward setting the viewer on edge. The deeper Gene Hackman’s surveillance expert Harry Caul plunges into a mystery of his own making, the tighter your jaw clenches.

I’ll confess that I don’t hear a lot of Shire’s “The Conversation” in Beltrami’s “Logan” theme. The instrumentation — piano, guitar, drums and harmonica — sounds like a melancholy mix of Ennio Morricone and John Carpenter. But foregrounding the piano on a superhero score is incredibly rare, so if “The Conversation” was Mangold’s starting point (which he claimed during a live-tweet viewing of “Logan” in 2000) when discussing the music with Beltrami (who also scored the director’s “3:10 to Yuma,” “The Wolverine,” and “Ford v Ferrari”), then that’s wonderful. The result is all that matters, and “Logan” might be Beltrami’s finest composition.