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Reel Critics: No James Bond nonsense in this low-tech spy thriller
Author John le Carré knew the Cold War spy business from the inside. Under his real name, David Cornwell, he was a British spy betrayed by real-life KGB double-agent Kim Philby in 1963. Many elements of his novel "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" are built...Tags: Academy Awards, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (movie), Entertainment Events, Alzheimer's Disease, Espionage and Intelligence
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Movie Preview: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelThe greatest spy novel of them all was once a classic British TV mini-series, and now has been remade as an all-star period piece set in the Cold War '60s. Colin Firth, Bill Nighy, John Hurt, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, and as John Le Carre's canny... -
'Secret Wars: One Hundred Years of British Intelligence Inside MI5 and MI6' by Gordon Thomas
The experience of empire seems to leave a people with at least a taste, if not a particular talent, for conspiracy. Certainly, that's true of the Russians for whom the one place at which the history of czarism and Bolshevism most clearly conjoins is in...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Terrorism, United Kingdom, Personal Finance, Dwight D. Eisenhower
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'The Good Shepherd'
Zap2It.comIt's fitting that a drama trading in classified information would turn out to be such a cryptic bugger. "The Good Shepherd," Robert De Niro's second directorial effort (his first and far easier assignment was 1993's "A Bronx Tale"), takes a while to...Tags: Fidel Castro, Gene Hackman, FBI, Michael Phillips, Politics
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