Word: agente
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...seems to revel in her reputation as a wild child. She talks openly about her drug experiences, about having had bisexual relationships and about how she gets her best kicks from kink. With her famous lips pushed into a wicked smile, she describes how she dragged an agent from the Creative Artists Agency on a tour of New York City's bondage clubs. "S&M focuses you on survival," she explains. "It's a weird cleansing of self...
DIED. SAM JAFFE, 98, pioneering agent and producer in Hollywood's Golden Age; in Los Angeles. A movie mogul by his mid-20s, Jaffe opened his own talent agency in 1935 and soon had a stable of stars that included Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Richard Burton...
...book offers up strong opinions about the key players, some expected (book agent Lucianne Goldberg is Mephistophelian), some not (much lampooned Lewinsky lawyer William Ginsburg didn't do too badly). But as a former prosecutor, Toobin reserves his greatest scorn for Kenneth Starr, whom he portrays as unqualified, unprincipled, politically biased and lacking in common sense. Toobin's thesis is that the real vast conspiracy wasn't the right-wing one Hillary famously charged was behind the scandal, but a more subtle attempt by the legal system to circumvent the political process through an "after the fact election." That...
...Vietnam War. Zumwalt had attained the highest command in the U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval Operations. My father was commander-in-chief of U.S. forces in the Pacific. My father ordered warplanes to bomb Hanoi while I was a prisoner of war there. Admiral Zumwalt ordered the use of Agent Orange in combat areas where his son served...
...admiral came to see me some years ago to discuss veterans with diseases caused by Agent Orange and the need to fund research. At the time, his son was dying from cancer caused by Agent Orange. The admiral knew, as my father knew, that his decision had been necessary to save the lives of many other Americans. I told him how sorry I was about his son. He said simply, "I'm proud of him. He did his duty." To some that might seem like a stinting remark, but military families recognize it as the most loving praise a father...