It was. Or, really, the inspiration for the play which turned into the movie.

oh, right, it was a play first, I think I knew that.

While it isn't Rope, Compulsion is an even more thinly veiled movie version of Leopold and Loeb. And I mean very thinly veiled. Orson Welles plays the Clarence Darrow role.

I wrote a paper on Leopold and Loeb for my 8th-grade history class, my first research paper complete with footnotes, etc. (My teacher marked me down for using the Joliet Herald News instead of the Chicago Tribune for my main source.)

One of the things that I find really creepy about that case was that Loeb (the more amoral of the two) was willing to consider using his own cousin as their victim before they decided on Bobby Franks.

There's a book about the case published earlier this year that is really comprehensive and well-written: For the Thrill of It.

So, yeah, everyone at work told me point blank that I looked like shit and harassed me until I finally went home two hours later. Going to eat food and crawl into bed and die. Then I'll tear through every last unopened box and track down mister doctor man's number.

Leopold and Loeb inspired many movies.

Leopold and Loeb have been the inspiration for many works in film, theater and fiction, such as the 1929 play Rope by Patrick Hamilton, which served as the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's film of the same name. In 1956, Meyer Levin revisited the case in his novel Compulsion, a fictionalized version of the actual events in which the names of the pair were changed to "Steiner and Strauss." Three years later, the novel was made into a film of the same name. Never the Sinner, a theatrical recreation of the Leopold and Loeb trial, was written by John Logan in 1988.

Other works inspired by the case include Tom Kalin's more openly gay-themed 1992 film Swoon; Michael Haneke's 1997 film Funny Games, with an American shot-for-shot remake produced in 2008; Barbet Schroeder's Murder by Numbers (2002); and Stephen Dolginoff's 2005 off-Broadway musical Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story.

Batmobile gokart plans available on eBay: [link]

That’s right, you now have the chance to build yourself a batmobile tumbler go kart (T-kart). These are the only plans in the world …that’s right THE WORLD.

I have spent many hours going from one batman blog to the next and I cannot tell you how many times I came across posts where kids and adults alike would love to build one and if anyone knew where to get plans, Well now you do.

I am the developer/ owner of these plans, I just went public with them. This is the opportunity so many batman fans have been waiting for “build your own Tumbler” well, go kart version, its called the T-kart. I am the only one in the world who is offering these .

Dwarf Mini Pony

This pony is an American miniature horse born with a dwarfism gene. For reference, there’s another picture of little Koda compared to a normal horse on the website. He goes to about the knees of the stallion. I couldn’t resist posing this image with the huge eyes though.

Koda is so small that he is often mistaken for a battery-operated soft toy.

Standing at 59cm tall, if Koda the horse wants an equal he has to turn to the vetinary cat for company.

Wow, it's less than two feet tall....

Another optical illusion what will warp your fragile widdle mind: [link]

Julie, can you find the doctor's number online somewhere? Seems like it would take less energy than going through boxes.

In Cold Blood is about Leopold and Loeb too. Not a movie however.