Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nice play-acting, but it won't wash,' his abductor, a chillingly villainous James Mason tells Grant when he tries to clear up this misunderstanding. Grant breaks free, then does some romantic interluding with a seductive Eva-Marie Saint. But she turns out to be Mason's agent (although ultimately a double agent) and the persecution continues. Scary enough. But Hitchcock invests even more genius in a few intricately-constructed and flawlessly-carried-out chase scenes: the escape from the rare antique auction, the low-flying cropduster in the cornfield bit, and the film's finale, a rush from death...
James P. Costello, general agent for Local 40, declined to comment yesterday on the reasons for the workers' decision to report for work. He said the issue is part of "a very delicate situation" in negotiations between the union and the University...
...course it would do no good to stress Castle's fear of any moral challenge intruding on his well-guarded homelife, if such a challenge were not precisely what was in store. Castle, you see, is a double-agent who passes secrets to the Russians. I mention this crucial detail midway through this review because it's only at that point in the book that the reader discovers it. By that time, a number of outrages have occurred to rattle Castle's conscience and force him to put his sacred private life on the line. Suspecting a leak but collaring...
...lived with Sister Anne and during his first year in the Big Apple landed two parts (in revivals of Gypsy and Bye Bye Birdie) and an agent-manager named Bob LeMond, who has been with Johnny ever since. "He was a dream," LeMond says. "He got the first part I ever sent him up for, and he's never been turned down since." Young actors currently enduring the rigors of the tough scuffle, or more established ones who still nurse the scars, may be heartened to learn that, in fact, Travolta was rejected in his first movie attempt...
...University made two proposals to the union Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, but James P. Costello, general agent for Local 40, said the union membership rejected both offers in early-morning meetings...