Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only rancor that arose among officials involved in the two trials concerned who would pay. Uncle Sam picks up the federal bills, of course; no one would speculate on how much they will be, though one FBI agent notes that the cost of the investigations alone was certainly more than the $1.6 million commandeered in the Brink's heist. A battle is brewing, however, between Rockland County, where the crime occurred, and Orange County, where the trial was moved in a change of venue because of prejudicial pretrial publicity. Massive security has been necessary from the beginning, and Orange...
...Between Friends, which will appear on HBO six times between Sept. 11 and Sept. 30, the affection between Taylor and Burnett rings true, at least initially. Burnett plays a real estate agent who has lost her spouse and her moral compass in a suburban landscape of manicured lawns and unfaithful husbands. She embraces promiscuity as a form of psychic masochism. Her new friend, Deborah Shapiro, is a wealthy divorcee with an enormous empty house that she calls "my Tara." Trained only "to walk down stairs with panache," she is no longer a Jewish American princess but a full-fledged dowager...
...very helpful. But when such a photograph is needed for the cover of TIME, the challenges grow exponentially. First, the professional photographer, unlike the parent, has to find a baby. This week's cover photographer, Gordon Munro, consulted Marge McDermott, a New York City talent agent for the carriage set, and told her exactly what he wanted: "A baby who seems to be almost newborn but is also beginning to look like everybody's idea of a baby. And I want to look at as many babies with as many different personalities as possible." McDermott sent eight...
Publishing can be a dog-eat-dog world. Consider some of last week's news. First Random House snapped Norman Mailer, 60, away from Little, Brown. He wanted a publisher based in Manhattan rather than one in faraway Boston, explained Mailer's agent, who down-played reports that, in addition to New York, Random House threw in a tidy $4 million for the author's next four novels. Meanwhile, Doubleday also had something to bark about. Its newest author is one C. Fred Bush, 11, four-legged companion of George and Barbara Bush. Due in April...
...enrolled in the University of Santa Clara. Although he never graduated, his grades were good enough to get him into Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. But after a year there, he was drafted. He served as a counterintelligence agent in Germany, where he met his wife, Joan Brauner, a Czech refugee working for the U.S. Army...