Word: agent
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...prostitute for a Senator. But he has failed an FBI lie-detector test. The other page, Jeff Opp, 16, of Denver, said he had heard from friends that perhaps half a dozen Congressmen were sexually abusing male pages, but conceded that none had tried to seduce him. FBI agents who have been questioning other pages-some 100 boys and girls, age 14 to 17, who run errands for lawmakers-say that so far they have encountered only similarly vague reports. "Clouds, rumor and innuendo," is the way one agent summarizes the findings to date. One likely result of the scandal...
...because of his left-wing background. Not until 1978 did he learn, after demanding to see his FBI and Army counterintelligence files under the Freedom of Information Act, that Army spooks had concluded that the two of them were having a sexual affair. In 1943, moreover, an FBI agent reported hearing at "a social function" that the results of the bugging had been presented to F.D.R., who squabbled with Eleanor in the presence of an Army counterintelligence officer and then ordered "that anybody who knew anything about this case should be . .. sent to the South Pacific for action against...
Soon, a real estate agent (Nicky Henson) appears, not to show the house but to have a weekend shack-up with his Popsy (Rowena Roberts). He knows that the couple who own the house have slunk off to Spain for a tax dodge. What he does not know is that they are about to slink back. In no time, sheiks and burglars are added to the mix, along with the mandatory defrocking of women and the depantsing of men and doors popping open and slamming shut as if by the ghost of Feydeau...
...than enough about what Hollywood stars are actually like. The Secret Life of Tyrone Power depicts that virile swashbuckler as bisexual. In The Untold Story, Charles Higham tries to make a case that Errol Flynn was also sexually ambivalent-and argues, not quite convincingly, that Flynn was a Nazi agent of some sort. In This Life, Sidney Poitier confesses to catching an adolescent case of gonorrhea, and in Please Don't Shoot My Dog, Jackie Cooper claims to have been the teen-age lover of Joan Crawford. Some of this brings back memories of Hedy Lamarr...
Some family. Shirley is a theatrical producer and literary agent. Burton is a celebrated biographer and New Yorker staff writer. And their older brother? Who else? Lenny, the conductor, lecturer, composer and 63-year-old Wunderkind. Family Matters follows all the Bernsteins from obscurity to celebrity, traveling the pull of Lenny's powerful slipstream. As Burton tells it, the early conditions were not propitious for fame. Sam, the father, was a successful businessman, a manic-depressive and a parochial ethnocentric (in later years he would refer to Dwight Eisenhower as General Eisenberg and to Adlai Stevenson as Steve Adelson...