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...when she was 40, she married a vibrant, glamorous American, Leland Hayward, a mega-agent and producer whose credits included South Pacific and Gypsy and who represented the likes of Fred Astaire, Clark Gable and Judy Garland. A few months after he died in 1971, she was invited to a dinner by Washington Post owner Katharine Graham and renewed her friendship with Harriman. They were married shortly after. He was 29 years her senior. Her wedding present to him was initiating the process of becoming a U.S. citizen...
...figured he was dead or in jail or in the appropriate facility," says Milt Ahlerich, a New Haven, Connecticut, FBI agent, "but he's back in a big way, which is all the more maddening." Ahlerich says the bombs' construction linked the new cases to the old perpetrator. "The intricacies of the devices are unique, and experts see the similarities from device to device." Ahlerich says all were pipe bombs but refuses to give specifics...
There are some real surprises in the film, but usually they work out rather well. Wilfred "It's the Right Thing to Do" Brimley as the firm's menacing security agent would seem to be a case of gross miscasting, but he pulls it off well. There's a hidden edge of steel to all of his genial suggestions to eat Quaker Oats after all. Holly Hunter as Tammy, the secretary/lover of a private detective killed while digging into the firm is a delight--she goes from persona to persona with razor-sharp acting and timing...
...Michael J. Fox in Life with Mikey: "I'm a show-biz agent, down on his pluck. I hope to make my fortune, and remake my life, with the help of a brash urchin who could be someone's beautiful daughter...
...person Anna Deavere Smith is a tall, slender, gorgeous black woman with an aristocrat's features, a dancer's grace and a Stanford drama professor's vocabulary. Onstage she is a disabled old Korean man, a white male Hollywood talent agent, a Panamanian immigrant mother, a teenage black gang member, a macho Mexican sculptor and 21 other people whose lives were forever changed by the 1992 Los Angeles riots. With a minimum of costumes and props she can make herself tall, short, pudgy, burly. If the person she is enacting speaks Spanish or Korean, so does she. This kind...