Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Agent King's testimony, hundreds of thousands of dollars were funneled to the fugitive by Laverne Bowden, president of Fidelity Equipment Leasing Corp., the Atlanta holding company for Thevis' pornographic distribution firms and retail outlets. King testified that Thevis' father George was seen carrying paper bags and manila envelopes stuffed with cash from the Fidelity offices. Before his elimination, Underbill deposited large sums of money in a Bahamian bank account. Thevis then borrowed money from the bank. An attorney placed shares of AT&T worth $297,000 in a trust in Thevis' name...
Brando himself. Brando had been the key to the film because his magic name had brought in other stars and, more important, other investors. But now, reported one of his friends, Agent Jay Kanter, Brando felt he should play Jor-El "like a green suitcase." "A green suitcase?" asked Donner. "Yes," said the friend. "Marlon wants to put a green suitcase on the sound stage and let his voice come...
Fittingly enough, it was the vaunted Dallas scouting system that turned up Jim Zorn. Passed over in the draft after playing for tiny California Poly-Pomona, he was signed as a free agent, then cut by the Cowboys in 1975. He was quickly snatched up by Seattle when the franchise opened the following year...
Jerry (Michael Gambon) is a literary agent married to Judith, whom we never see. Robert (Daniel Massey) is a publisher and Jerry's oldest friend. Jerry was Robert's best man when he got married to Emma (Penelope Wilton). In the drunken pass that ignites the affair in Scene 9, Jerry says to Emma, "I should have had you, in your white, before the wedding." Lust will find a way. Jerry rents a place in the country, and the pair make love in the afternoons. But joy is applied like a cosmetic, and pain is masked...
Betrayal is blessed in its stars. Massey's Robert speaks with a honed intelligence. The presence of Wilton's Emma would warm any flat, and as for Gambon's Jerry, he is a fond slave of love, though perhaps too passive to be a literary agent. Few playgoers can have left The Caretaker and The Homecoming without being viscerally shaken up. Quite a few may leave Betrayal, with its anesthetized passions, feeling vaguely shaken down...