Word: agente
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...lampooned his fellow Aussie Russell Crowe by appearing as a vain over-the-top gladiator, displaying even more legs and obnoxious personality than his compatriot. (Crowe showed up for the event, but not, alas, until after he had been skewered.) James Woods returned as an emperor, referring to his agent "Ten-Percentus." "Chocolat" actor Alfred Molina appeared in a "Traffic" skit and revealed himself as "lower than a drug dealer. I'm a... talent agent." The audience, including many talent agents, laughed somewhat dutifully at that...
...Throughout the 1980s the key Oscar night party was held at Hollywood's hottest restaurant, Spago. When super-agent Swifty Lazar passed on, a range of other parties took its place, including the current favorites of Vanity Fair and Elton John. But to many people nothing captures the Oscar party mood more than the quirkily shaped restaurant. With the Hollywood venue having been supplanted in industry affections by the Beverly Hills branch of Spago, Oscar night was going to be the last big party thrown at the legendary original restaurant before it is closed by Puck...
...office in 1973 when she began to wonder why the police sketches she saw didn't match descriptions she had heard from the victims. There's a better way, she thought. And there was. Today Boylan, 47, is acclaimed for developing a technique so accurate that an FBI agent who has worked with her likens the results to "something drawn from a photograph." Among her creations: the iconic portrait of the Unabomber - a dead ringer for a young Ted Kaczynski, as well as the near mirror-image drawing of Polly Klaas' killer, Richard Allen Davis. Her secret? A diligent reading...
Reading about Robert Hanssen, the FBI agent turned spy [WORLD, March 5], gave me a migraine. I have family members who have worked in intelligence. Their biggest fear was that someone would give the Russians the names of U.S. agents. How could Hanssen betray his wife and family? They will have to move to another state and change their names. Moreover, how could he betray his fellow agents? For treason, death is the only response. FRANCES P. CLEMENT Plano, Texas...
...country, intelligence about the covert activities of enemies and sometimes of friendly states is power supreme. This makes spying rewarding--so much so that it is institutionalized without an iota of shame by every country in the world. Yet it is a terrible shock to discover an agent spying on his own country and feeding vital information to the enemy. I wonder if all countries will ever have enough respect for one another to render obsolete agencies like the CIA, the KGB and MI6. JAVED ABSAR Leuven, Belgium...