Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After watching me on the stage, I never knew I was so cute and so talented." Critics are already applauding his portrayal of the computer genius who nearly starts World War III in War-Games, which could easily become one of the summer's blockbusters. Broderick's agent has already jumped his asking fee from $50,000 a picture to a round six figures...
After excursions into fiction (Made in America) and exotic subculture (King of the Gypsies), Author Peter Maas has returned to his most substantial theme: intractable loner vs. corrupt organization. In Serpico (1973), a singleminded narcotics agent challenged the authorities and won. The heroine of Maas' new nonfiction drama triumphs over a stained bureaucracy, headed by the Tennessee Governor's office, that sells pardons to murderers and rapists...
...main ecclesiastical opponent is Archbishop Bruno Heim, Pro-Nuncio (ambassador) of the Holy See to Britain, who is strongly opposed to unilateral disarmament. In an amazingly candid letter to several British Catholics, which quickly became public, Heim suggested that the monsignor might be either an "idiot" or a conscious agent of Soviet designs...
...this one?" he asks. " 'This is three hours from the Kennedy Center, or as it's known at NBC, The Winds of Washington.' " The eyes whip over the pages. "Howzabout this? 'Security is really tight in the President's box. One agent checked me for bombs and threw out half my monologue.' " Hope's memory is as big as his desert mansion. Today's one-liner is stored away for use as tomorrow's ad lib. "Pseudosmart. That's the way I describe my stuff." says he. "I want...
...misunderstood. David is shy and sweet with his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy) but is wary of his parents and is a troublemaker in school. In short, he is as believable as any recent movie adolescent, and his responses to the Government security forces who are convinced he is an enemy agent are full of injured innocence and inventive ripostes. For about two-thirds of its distance, as it places an ordinary kid in an extraordinary situation, WarGames flirts with an E.T.-like charm. One imagines young David heading toward a small, smart, deadly encounter with gum-snapping Dabney Coleman, who plays...