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New York Post
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Inside the baffling murder that inspired 'Twin Peaks'
Her death inspired the cult 1990s TV show 'Twin Peaks.' Her ghost is said to haunt the woods where her body was found more than 100 years ago. And yet Hazel I. Drew remains a mystery. Drew was a pretty, vivacious 19-year-old blonde living in Troy, NY, when she disappeared near her uncle's farm on July 7, 1908. Locals spotted her body floating in a mill pond days later. 7 A scene from 'Twin Peaks,' with actor Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer, whose death anchored the show — and was inspired by the real life Hazel I. Drew, murdered in upstate New York in 1908. Everett Collection / Everett Collection Advertisement Her death gripped the nation — reporters from the Big Apple to the Old West breathlessly covered the case. Was it a suicide? A murder? An accident? Rumors swirled. A few days before she vanished, Drew had abruptly quit her job as a governess for a prominent local family. In fact, her acquaintances whispered, Hazel had been acting sort of strange lately. She consorted with lots of men. She had fallen ill and gone away for a month. She had arrived at the door of her dressmaker one evening begging her to make her a new shirtwaist that night for a weekend sojourn to Lake George. The papers printed every sensational claim: Hazel had been pregnant! Hazel was a sex worker! Hazel was living a double life! As if the only way a girl could have gotten herself killed was if she had asked for it. 7 Another shot of Lee in 'Twin Peaks.' Although Drake inspired the show's development, she was seldom discussed during its production or years-long television run. ©New Line Cinema/Courtesy Everett Collection Advertisement 'It was a common trope in crime writing,' said Jerry C. Drake — a civil servant, former history professor and author of the new book 'Hazel Was a Good Girl' (CLASH, out June 10), which claims to solve Hazel's murder. 'This sort of archetype of the fallen woman, but in Hazel's case, it was absolutely untrue,' he told The Post. 'I wanted to give her justice.' 'Hazel Was a Good Girl,' however, also aims to restore Hazel's good name, to show the young woman behind the myth, to portray her as distinct from Laura Palmer, her dead-blonde 'Twin Peaks' doppelganger. 'Going into this, I thought even if I can't solve her case, I can at least fix her reputation,' Drake said. 'I can decouple her from Laura Palmer and rechristen her as who she really was.' Advertisement Hazel I. Drew was born in 1888, to a large working-class Irish-Methodist family in Rensselaer County, NY. When she was 14, she moved to Troy, where her aunt — a domestic servant for the city's well-heeled — helped Hazel get jobs in the homes of prominent members of the local Republican party. 7 'Going into this, I thought even if I can't solve her case, I can at least fix her reputation,' said author Drake. 'I can decouple her from Laura Palmer and rechristen her as who she really was.' Albany Times Union Hazel did not come from wealth, but she was educated — she was described as always having her nose in a book — and she soon advanced to being a governess. She enjoyed the privileges that came with working for the upper classes: fine food, nice clothes, opulent surroundings, access to the best doctors and dentists, as well as a library of books. She was vivacious and curious and eager to experience life. 'She liked nice things,' Drake said. 'She would have had disposable income, and she spent it on good clothes. She had expensive eyeglasses. She liked to go out with her girlfriends and spent the weekends skating and going to the amusement park. She traveled to New York City and Boston with friends. But she also went to church religiously — she would bring her dates to church.' Advertisement Her family members said she had various suitors, and one of her friends mentioned that she was seeing a man who worked at a dentist's office. Yet, Hazel didn't seem serious about any of these potential paramours. Her letters weren't flirtatious but friendly. She mainly seemed concerned with having a good time with her girlfriends. Yet something strange did seem to happen to Hazel in the months leading up to her death. She had been traveling across the Eastern Seaboard. She fell ill and had to convalesce at her uncle's farm. Her friends, family members and employers had conflicting accounts of where she was at any given moment. 7 Author Drake says he was 'obsessed' with David Lynch's 'Twin Peaks,' which was based on Hazel's murder. Getty Images for ABA Her mother — who later hired a psychic to help solve Hazel's death — said that she believed someone 'who was well to do' had 'Hazel in his control.' The district attorney investigating the case tried to rule it as a suicide, but the autopsy proved otherwise. Hazel had not drowned, the doctors revealed, but had died from a blow to the back of the head. Someone had hit her, or caused her to fall and hit her head, and then dumped her in the river. Locals wrote letters claiming to have solved the killing in their dreams. Someone claimed hypnosis was involved. 'It was very 'Twin Peaks,'' Drake said. 'But unfortunately, Hazel didn't have an Agent Dale Cooper helping her.' A month into the rollercoaster investigation, however, the DA closed the case. The press — formerly in a frenzy over who killed Hazel Drew — moved on to the next dead blonde. Even after her story compelled Mark Frost, whose grandmother grew up in Troy, to write 'Twin Peaks' with David Lynch, Hazel was rarely brought up again. 7 A snow-covered gravestone is a modest testament to Hazel's brief life. Courtesy of Jerry C. Drake, PhD Advertisement Drake loved 'Twin Peaks' and became obsessed with unsolved mysteries when it was on the air. And yet, he had never heard the name Hazel Drew until it appeared to him in a dream in 2019. In the dream, his friend — who had just moved to Troy — handed him a book, and inside there was a bookplate that read 'Ex Libris Hazel I. Drew.' When he woke up, he wrote the name down and later Googled it. He found a podcast about the legend of Hazel Drew and a short post from the site Find a Grave that said that Hazel's story had inspired 'Twin Peaks.' 'I just was like, 'Well, I'm obsessed with this,'' he recalled. 'I love David Lynch, I love this show, I love ghosts and mysteries, and my friend is now living in this town, so I was like, I'm going to take the week off, my wife and I will go to Troy.' Then things got really weird. Hazel appeared to him in dreams — introducing him to a family member as a guy 'working on my case' or leading him to a cafe. He experienced several spooky presences by her grave, including a rock thrown at him from out of nowhere. He woke up in mi an AirbNb in Troy after one of his dreams about her to find a black crow in his room. Advertisement Yet Drake said that none of these instances deterred him from pursuing his investigation, but only spurred him on. 'My feeling was this is a person who had unfinished business,' he said. 'They say that ghosts want their wrongs righted, and they maybe cry out from the other side for people who they think they can do that.' 7 Author Jerry. C. Drake Advertisement He said that he is confident that he has named her murderer — read the book to find out who — even if he doesn't have the definitive smoking gun. 'I hope it will stimulate people to ask rational questions about her killer,' he said, and maybe even give Hazel's ghost some peace and justice. 'That's why I ended up calling the book 'Hazel Was a Good Girl,' because everybody kept saying that,' he said. 'Her mom says that the doctors say it, it's, it's, there's even a clip of it on the cover. … So, I thought, 'I'm just gonna give her, her, her good name back.''
Egypt Today
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Egypt Today
Egyptian Cinema Soars Again: Aisha Can't Fly Away Stuns at Cannes
Aisha Can't Fly Away made a powerful debut at the 78th Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, May 20th, premiering in the prestigious Un Certain Regard section. The buzz was undeniable, with festival-goers, celebrities, and media figures scrambling to grab tickets for one of the film's four hotly anticipated screenings. The premiere concluded to thunderous applause and a well-earned standing ovation—an early sign that Aisha Can't Fly Away is one of the breakout highlights of this year's festival. Attending the premiere alongside the film's cast and crew, director Morad Mostafa expressed how humbled he was to be at Cannes again before the film's screening, stressing that he wouldn't have made it this far as a director 'without the Egyptian film industry,' and that he is 'very proud to be representing Egypt in the official selection of Cannes this year.' He also thanked the film's co-producers, and crew, along with 'paying a special tribute' to the film's producer and his partner, Sawsan Yusuf. On stage with him were film stars Buliana Simon and Ziad Zaza's producers, Yusuf, Dora Bouchoucha, Sherif Fathy, Ahmed Amer, Alaa Karkouti, and Maher Diab, and crew members Mohamed Mamdouh and Mostafa Kashef. The film will have three additional screenings during the festival: two on Wednesday, May 21st, at 1 pm (Agnes Varda Hall) and 1:30 pm (Cinéma ScreenX), followed by a third on Thursday, May 22nd, at 9:15 am (Cinéum Salle 3). Directed by Morad Mostafa, the premiere of the film marks Egypt's first participation in Un Certain Regard since the 2016 film CLASH by Mohamed Diab, almost a decade prior. Aisha is a 26-year-old Sudanese caregiver living in a neighborhood in the heart of Cairo where she witnesses the tension between her fellow African migrants and other groups. Unwittingly, she becomes involved with an Egyptian gang that blackmails her into stealing her patients' keys so that they can rob them. A co-production between Egypt, France, Germany, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Sudan, the film has garnered significant support, including grants from the Doha Film Institute, Cultural Resource Fund, El Gouna Film Festival, Locarno Academy, Cannes' Cinéfondation and La Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde, and Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole. It also notably swept a top award at Red Sea Lodge, five at Venice's Final Cut, as well as the Atlas Award at Marrakech International Film Festival. The creative team behind Aisha CaN't Fly Away features several returning faces from Mostafa's I PROMISE YOU PARADISE, including cinematographer Mostafa El Kashef, who also worked on last year's Cannes entry THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE, which also made its way to Toronto; production designer Eman Elelaby, who earned a FIPRESCI Prize for her work on FEATHERS; costume designer Nayera Eldahshoury; sound engineer Mostafa Shaban; and editor Mohamed Mamdouh. Produced by Sawsan Yusuf's Bonanza Films, the film is co-produced alongside Dora Bouchoucha and Lina Shaban of Tunisia's Nomadic Images, Sherif Fathy of Shift Studios, Ahmed Amer of A. A. Films, Faisal Baltayour from Cinewaves, May Odeh and Zorana Musikic of Mayana Films, Laura Nikolov of Coorigins, Abellelah Al Ahmary of Arabia Pictures, and associate producer Amjad Abu Alala. AISHA CAN'T FLY AWAY boasts a stellar cast, with Buliana Simon taking on the lead role of Aisha alongside Egyptian rapper Ziad Zaza — in his first feature-length appearance — Emad Ghoniem, and Mamdouh Saleh.
Yahoo
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Wordle hints today for #1,409: Clues and answer for Monday, April 28
Hey, there! Welcome to the start of a new week. Let's get things off on a positive note by keeping your Wordle streak intact. Here's our daily Wordle guide with some hints and the answer for Monday's puzzle (#1,409). It may be that you're a Wordle newcomer and you're not completely sure how to play the game. We're here to help with that too. Wordle is a deceptively simple daily word game that first emerged in 2021. The gist is that there is one five-letter word to deduce every day by process of elimination. The daily word is the same for everyone. Wordle blew up in popularity in late 2021 after creator Josh Wardle made it easy for players to share an emoji-based grid with their friends and followers that detailed how they fared each day. The game's success spurred dozens of clones across a swathe of categories and formats. The New York Times purchased Wordle in early 2022 for an undisclosed sum. The publication said that players collectively played Wordle 5.3 billion times in 2024. So, it's little surprise that Wordle is one of the best online games and puzzles you can play daily. To start playing Wordle, you simply need to enter one five-letter word. The game will tell you how close you are to that day's secret word by highlighting letters that are in the correct position in green. Letters that appear in the word but aren't in the right spot will be highlighted in yellow. If you guess any letters that are not in the secret word, the game will gray those out on the virtual keyboard. You'll only have six guesses to find each day's word, though you still can use grayed-out letters to help narrow things down. It's also worth remembering that letters can appear in the secret word more than once. Wordle is free to play on the NYT's website and apps, as well as on Meta Quest headsets. The game refreshes at midnight local time. If you log into a New York Times account, you can track your stats, including the all-important win streak. If you have a NYT subscription that includes full access to the publication's games, you don't have to stop after a single round of Wordle. You'll have access to an archive of more than 1,400 previous Wordle games. So if you're a relative newcomer, you'll be able to go back and catch up on previous editions. In addition, paid NYT Games members have access to a tool called the Wordle Bot. This can tell you how well you performed at each day's game. Before today's Wordle hints, here are the answers to recent puzzles that you may have missed: Yesterday's Wordle answer for Sunday, April 27 — WEEDY Saturday, April 26 — CLASH Friday, April 25 — KNOWN Thursday, April 24 — GENIE Wednesday, April 23 — OZONE Every day, we'll try to make Wordle a little easier for you. First, we'll offer a hint that describes the meaning of the word or how it might be used in a phrase or sentence. We'll also tell you if there are any double (or even triple) letters in the word. In case you still haven't quite figured it out by that point, we'll then provide the first letter of the word. Those who are still stumped after that can continue on to find out the answer for today's Wordle. This should go without saying, but make sure to scroll slowly. Spoilers are ahead. Here is a hint for today's Wordle answer: Representation of a person that's used in things like crash tests. There is a pair of repeated letters in today's Wordle answer. The first letter of today's Wordle answer is D. This is your final warning before we reveal today's Wordle answer. No take-backs. Don't blame us if you happen to scroll too far and accidentally spoil the game for yourself. What is today's Wordle? Today's Wordle answer is... DUMMY Not to worry if you didn't figure out today's Wordle word. If you made it this far down the page, hopefully you at least kept your streak going. And, hey: there's always another game tomorrow.
Economic Times
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Economic Times
Wordle hints today for #1,408: First letter clue, double letters, and full answer for Sunday, April 27
What is Wordle and why is it still so popular? How do you play Wordle every day? You have six guesses to find the secret five-letter word. Correct letters in the right spot show up green. Right letters in the wrong spot turn yellow. Letters not in the word at all go gray. Live Events Can you play Wordle more than once a day? What were the recent Wordle answers before today? Saturday, April 26 — CLASH Friday, April 25 — KNOWN Thursday, April 24 — GENIE Wednesday, April 23 — OZONE Tuesday, April 22 — ARTSY What are today's Wordle hints for April 27? Hint: It's an adjective. It describes someone who is scrawny and lean or a place filled with nuisance plants. Double letters? Yes, today's word has repeated letters. First letter: Today's Wordle begins with W. What is today's Wordle answer for #1,408? FAQs: (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel Hey there, Wordle fans! We hope your weekend's going well. If you're looking for the Wordle hints today for #1,408, you're in the right place. Don't worry if today's puzzle feels a little tricky — we've got you covered with easy clues, a peek at the first letter, and yes, the full answer too (only if you need it).Wordle is a simple five-letter daily word puzzle that became a viral sensation back in 2021. Created by Josh Wardle, it exploded after players started sharing their results using emoji grids. Its success led to dozens of spin-offs across all kinds of early 2022, The New York Times had purchased Wordle for an undisclosed sum. Fast forward to 2024, and players racked up a massive 5.3 billion plays, according to NYT data. No wonder Wordle still ranks among the best online daily games you can you're new, here's how Wordle works:It's all about strategy, a little luck, and sometimes just gut feeling. Plus, if you log into a New York Times account, you can track fun stats like your win but only if you have a New York Times Games subscription. With it, you unlock access to the Wordle archive — more than 1,400 past puzzles! If you just started recently, this is a great way to catch up on old also get to use the Wordle Bot, a tool that analyzes your gameplay and gives tips on how well you guessed each quickly look back so you don't accidentally repeat a word:Always a smart move to remember previous answers since Wordle usually doesn't repeat words right for today's clues? Here we go:Take a moment — maybe a few deep breaths — and think about lean figures or gardens filled with unwanted final spoiler warning. If you're still thinking it through, scroll Wordle answer for Sunday, April 27 you guessed it right, congrats! If not, don't worry — there's always another chance first letter for today's Wordle isYes, today's Wordle answer has a
Time of India
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Wordle hints today for #1,408: First letter clue, double letters, and full answer for Sunday, April 27
Wordle hints today for #1,408: Get your clues and the answer for Sunday, April 27 - Hey there, Wordle fans! We hope your weekend's going well. If you're looking for the Wordle hints today for #1,408, you're in the right place. Don't worry if today's puzzle feels a little tricky — we've got you covered with easy clues, a peek at the first letter, and yes, the full answer too (only if you need it). #Pahalgam Terrorist Attack India stares at a 'water bomb' threat as it freezes Indus Treaty India readies short, mid & long-term Indus River plans Shehbaz Sharif calls India's stand "worn-out narrative" What is Wordle and why is it still so popular? Wordle is a simple five-letter daily word puzzle that became a viral sensation back in 2021. Created by Josh Wardle, it exploded after players started sharing their results using emoji grids. Its success led to dozens of spin-offs across all kinds of themes. By early 2022, The New York Times had purchased Wordle for an undisclosed sum. Fast forward to 2024, and players racked up a massive 5.3 billion plays, according to NYT data. No wonder Wordle still ranks among the best online daily games you can play. 5 5 Next Stay Playback speed 1x Normal Back 0.25x 0.5x 1x Normal 1.5x 2x 5 5 / Skip Ads by by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like The Move That Changed Their Lives – See How It Works Expertinspector Learn More Undo How do you play Wordle every day? If you're new, here's how Wordle works: You have six guesses to find the secret five-letter word. Correct letters in the right spot show up green. Right letters in the wrong spot turn yellow. Letters not in the word at all go gray. It's all about strategy, a little luck, and sometimes just gut feeling. Plus, if you log into a New York Times account, you can track fun stats like your win streak. Live Events Can you play Wordle more than once a day? Yes, but only if you have a New York Times Games subscription. With it, you unlock access to the Wordle archive — more than 1,400 past puzzles! If you just started recently, this is a great way to catch up on old Wordles. Subscribers also get to use the Wordle Bot, a tool that analyzes your gameplay and gives tips on how well you guessed each day. What were the recent Wordle answers before today? Let's quickly look back so you don't accidentally repeat a word: Saturday, April 26 — CLASH Friday, April 25 — KNOWN Thursday, April 24 — GENIE Wednesday, April 23 — OZONE Tuesday, April 22 — ARTSY Always a smart move to remember previous answers since Wordle usually doesn't repeat words right away. What are today's Wordle hints for April 27? Ready for today's clues? Here we go: Hint: It's an adjective. It describes someone who is scrawny and lean or a place filled with nuisance plants. Double letters? Yes, today's word has repeated letters. First letter: Today's Wordle begins with W. Take a moment — maybe a few deep breaths — and think about lean figures or gardens filled with unwanted plants. What is today's Wordle answer for #1,408? Alright, final spoiler warning. If you're still thinking it through, scroll carefully. Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, April 27 is... WEEDY If you guessed it right, congrats! If not, don't worry — there's always another chance tomorrow. FAQs: Q1: What is the first letter clue for Wordle hints today for #1,408? The first letter for today's Wordle is W . Q2: Are there double letters in Wordle hints today for #1,408? Yes, today's Wordle answer has a pair of repeated letters .
