Word: agent
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...hints at the title of a famous 1970 car chase movie, Vanishing Point, that makes sense, since the new film argues that terrorists can be tracked down not by super-sleuthing or political back-channeling, but because of the fanatically assured driving skills of a lone government agent. The film also has echoes of a few other cluttered frescoes that play out in a limited time-frame: Vantage Point, reduced to essentials, is Crash starring Jack Bauer...
...Early on, we learn that Secret Service Agent Thomas Barnes (Quaid) had taken a bullet for Ashton a year ago, so this is a least the second assassination attempt during the his regime. Ashton, though, is no ninny; stern and balding, he has the gruff gravitas of Fred Thompson or Rudy Giuliani, if either of them had got past their Presidential-primary gaffes and into the White House. And he is ready with heroic quotes for any occasion. When his adviser pleads, "Mr. President, we have to act strong," Ashton snaps back, "No, we have to be strong...
...Hell hath no fury like an agent scorned” seems to be the enduring message of Douglas Carter Beane’s “The Little Dog Laughed,” a sharp chamber comedy that fiercely satirizes Hollywood wheeling and dealing and probes issues of gay identity in the popular media.The Tony-nominated play makes its New England premier at the Wembly Theater at the Calderwood Pavillion, directed by Paul Melone and running through Feb. 16.The play focuses on Mitchell Green (Robert Serrell), a young actor confused about his sexual orientation and attempting to reconcile a budding...
...unable to read the identification numbers on registration cards. Meanwhile the two only inkpads available for voters to stamp their ballots were drying up. Voters had to return several times to the registration desk in order to moisten their stamp and mark their ballots. Khawaja Khurshid Alam, a polling agent for Musharraf's party, shook his head with disgust. "These are untrained persons, they don't know how to work in polling stations. People come and they wait and they say, 'why are you wasting our time?' so they go home." While accusations of organized election fraud are widespread...
...Tootsie”), who is battling multiple sclerosis.“That was one of the reasons why I gave her this part,” said Miniucchi. “When she started feeling sick the Hollywood system kind of wrote her off and pushed her away. Her agent dropped her and her manager dropped her. You know, the typical Hollywood story.”But despite her best efforts, Miniucchi still had to deal with some of the otherworldly nuttiness of Hollywood when it came to procuring the parking attendant vehicles for the film...