This controversial film stars Edward Norton as Derek Vinyard, an angry young man seeking retribution for the murder of his father. Derek becomes the leader of a skinhead white-power movement, espousing racist views to his peers and using his intelligence to stir up as much race-hate as possible. Derek's actions culminate in murder and he is jailed. Three years later his girlfriend (Fairuza Balk) and brother Danny (Edward Furlong) await his release, but discover that Derek is a changed man, ashamed of his past and no longer driven by hatred. However, the consequences of his actions still haunt Derek's family and the threat of a return to violence is never far away.

As a youth Edward took the Oxford Higher School Certificate exam with major subjects English and History (4 papers each) and minors, Economics, French and Latin (1 paper each). He read voraciously and this included many of Shakespeare's plays, his sonnets, and his long narrative poems. The results were gratifying. 4 As in English, 4 As in History, A in Economics. His school Principal told him he was 6th in England in English. From there he won a scholarship to Oxford where he took a degree in English (and read more Shakespeare) He had studied in particular Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and some of the comedies, and read most of the other plays plus books by critics and scholars. Some writers claimed Francis Bacon was Shakespeare and others that it was Christopher Marlowe. He read enough of each to decide in his own mind that their claims were unfounded. If Shakespeare wasn't Will from Stratford Upon Avon he certainly wasn't, Edward thought, one of them. But now, back to the present, and after his fairly extensive reading of Stratfordians and Oxfordians, and renewing his acquaintance with the poems and plays, as someone who has spent most of his life conducting investigations including for the Supreme Court of Ontario and the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants, besides being a member of research committees or working sub-committees for the Ontario and Canadian Institutes of CAs..so having spent most of his life in researching and evaluating evidence while operating an international tax and auditing practice, he thought it might be helpful to examine and comment on the Shakespeare identity problem, as his investigative auditing experience in particular may give a somewhat different perspective.

A convenient separate slim volume with starting page numbers for each chapter for volumes 1 and 2, plus separate indexing for each volume, 78 pages total.

In Volume 1 Edward Furlong began his investigation with all author Shakespeare's published poems as these are personal. The poet said he was 'true telling, ' the 154 sonnets were, revealing much about the poet and his life. Volume 2 begins with two candidates left for author Shakespeare, soon reduced to one. Denials of this candidate are examined, found to be mostly based on misunderstandings, ineffective, or even mis-representative. They do not destroy the candidate. Jonson did not say Shakespeare had little Latin and less Greek, he said he had little Latin and less Greek to honour him at his death (i.e. written by others) which is an entirely different statement. Plays are corporate enterprises involving many people, constantly updated for topicality and impact, virtually useless for dating. 'Late' plays are reviewed in some detail showing evidence of another (identified) writer. Conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt, the candidate was the author Shakespeare.

The Shakespeare Identity Problem is the last in a long line of investigations of ancient problems by Edward Furlong who won a scholarship to Oxford, took a degree in English, then another in History, accepted an offer of a Senior Research Fellowship at Chicago, but soon disenchanted with academe, moved to Canada where he became a Chartered Accountant and developed a taxation and auditing practice. After many years hard work and his usual voracious reading Edward began a return to academic pursuits this time on his own terms. Volume 1 (of 2 plus a third for index only) discusses Shakespeare's world, who he is said to be, the facts, and only facts, known about him, his 6 signatures and those of other experienced writers of his time. He used mostly a mediaeval more awkward writing form and had ink blots. Through Edward's many years witnessing signatures of persons from top society to charity cases he could see the presumed Shakespeare could not have written 36 plays, two book length poems, and 154 sonnets in flawless English because he did not have the skill to write it all down. The question then became who was the real author Shakespeare. It was not until Edward had ploughed through almost all Shakespeare's poems that sonnet 125 gave a clue, and analysis of what that tells us about who he was leads to the end of this volume.

From Chimps to Humans? was written when Edward Furlong (EF) found that Alfred Wallace, a 19th century specimen collector for museums and zoos had worked out in a few hours of inspiration how the evolution of species occurred and sent his brilliant paper to wealthy Charles Darwin who had written his influential scholarly friends that his next book contained many facts but nothing new. Then he received the Wallace paper and included the theory in an early part of his book without acknowledgement. It is always referred to now as Darwinism. EF also noticed that every find of fossil humanoids was apparently different from all others. Eventually they were, it seemed for convenience, grouped together and given a name for each group roughly depending on calculated distance into the past. Scholars favour Latin names, it seems to lend more prestige to their work. It has taken EF many years to formulate his ideas on societies and civilizations. Reading Gibbon and Toynbee confirmed his differences from both. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the Falklands war provided EF with working examples which supported his theory. While remembering that the timeline has telescoped in the Space Age, it is recommended that US politicians should read at least chapters 3 & 4 of this work not for any attempt to publicize it, but because it gives a succinct summary of the rise decay and fall of a society.

Where did Odysseus go? was a project Edward Furlong (EF) took as a newcomer to the Ideas radio documentary 2 hour programs section at The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). They passed it to a University of Toronto professor who said "plausible" after 3 months, so, having researched and written the program EF narrated it on air. CBC was somewhat overwhelmed by the trans-Canada listener response. Just over 10 years later, after EF had completed 3 more documentaries (2 years each to research and write, chopped down to 2 hours on air), passing by their premises, EF dropped in to say 'hi'. A structural round pillar in the middle of their general area, had 4 listeners letters taped to it. One said " thank you for ... which you aired last week. It was an excellent program. Of course, the best program you ever aired was Where did Odysseus go? by Edward Furlong." The Mysterious Cursus arose when EF noted various ancient neolithic works were calculated to have required millions of man-hours to construct. Most were only discovered when aerial surveys began. They were obviously not created by farmers or hunter-gatherers. The Nazca designs site was only discovered after modern humans took to air travel. No practical solution has been offered as to why they were constructed faultlessly hundreds of feet long accompanied by unerringly straight lines on a high barren plain. EF suggests what occurred.

The series has nine WEEVIL stories. These are about a small boy whose nickname is Weevil. Some include his smaller sister Felicity (also a nickname). Two more are entirely Felicity adventure stories. Both children are normal when at home with their parents, but when they leave home and wander off in search of adventure they are able to talk to wild animals and understand what the animals say. Weevil also meets other humans in the past and the future as his surroundings dissolve and re-form. He experiences as real what some might call make-believe. Weevil's time range is from the long since past age of the brachiosaurus to a symposium of archaeologists in 7000 AD discussing (quite incorrectly) their findings and understanding of the world Weevil lives in, 2000 AD. These learned people dismiss Weevil's factual explanations as ignorance. Two other stories tell us about unusual experiences of Weevil's father, whose name is John. Two more stories complete the series. Both involve Dr. Dewgood. In one a small boy and his dog are helped by the good doctor. This diminutive person also appears at a children's birthday party where he tries to help, but everything he does turns to chaos and the party quickly becomes a shambles.

The Red Sea Crossing by Edward Furlong (EF) began as an investigative 2 hour documentary on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's network(CBC) (radio) in their Ideas series, which CBC then sold to PBS in the USA. The program discusses problems with the Biblical text, the only feasible location for the crossing is identified, and the natural phenomenon that occurred there is explained. . . . . . . . . . . Eden: Fact or Fantasy? also began as a 2 hour documentary with CBC. A university mathematics lecturer wrote to EF that he was preparing to go to a University open air concert featuring Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture complete with cannon when he recognized EF's voice (on the radio, which he took with him). Sitting in front seats with family and friends he had EF's radio voice firmly in his ear and taped the entire program. He thought he knew where Eden was, as scholars said, in Dilmun, but became convinced EF was right in finding a different location. . . . . . . . . . . . The Obelisk shows what an obelisk did, how and why it was recognized and revered in ancient Egypt, India, Israel, and Mesopotamia. Its influence is shown in societies from Scotland to Australia where monuments or memories have survived, but not their language in written form.

Since the dawn of the Space Age in 1957 many speculative books and TV shows have appeared saying that Aliens may have, could have, or did visit planet earth in the past, or still do. To satisfy himself and others more realistically minded, Edward Furlong (MA Oxford, CA Ontario, ACCI, SM - who is also a founding member of The Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies, affiliated with the University of Toronto) has gone back to ancient texts, quoted only from them, taken from the works of established scholars, and quoted commentary by these academics. That's Part One, devoid of speculation. Part Two shows actual physically existing ancient images as provided to us by scholars. This enables readers to decide for themselves what to make of the combined factual evidence.

With details of the food to prepare, cook, and eat to make it happen. By Edward Furlong MA (Oxford) CA (Ontario) ACCI SM Approved by Sean Furlong Red Seal Executive Chef