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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Joe Montana will make his long-awaited retirement announcement next week. Montana's agent said today that he will be holding a news conference to say good-bye to his fans on Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, where he led the 49ers to four Super Bowl victories...
Then there is Kemper Boyd, a corrupt FBI agent from a once illustrious and then bankrupt Tennessee family ("My father went broke and killed himself. He willed me ninety-one dollars and the gun he did it with"). Recognizing an accomplished sneak when he sees one, Director J. Edgar Hoover persuades Kemper to tender a sham resignation from the agency--while retaining his salary--and to hire on with Bobby Kennedy's Senate investigative team as a spy. Hoover hates the Kennedys. But Kemper, who gets the job, takes to the brothers, especially Jack, in whom he recognizes...
Finally, there is Ward Littell, another FBI agent and Kemper's protege, a former Jesuit seminarian who works in the Chicago office tracking drab, hopeless domestic communists and hungering for a chance to put his massive idealism to better use. Kemper gives him the chance to do some sub rosa snooping for Bobby Kennedy, thereby condemning a number of people, including John F. Kennedy, to untimely death...
...plot progresses, Grady fails to solve any of his problems, but his goodnatured confusion is winning, and we can't help but develop a real affection for him. The devastating effects of his irresponsibility on his wife, his mistress and his agent are clear enough, but it is also clear that Grady has nothing but good intentions. His general predicament is mirrored in the fate of his bloated masterpiece; despite all his ideas and plans, he just can't bring anything to a successful conclusion...
Christopher Plummer, a brilliant actor whose agent should be shot, is also shamed by his lines. His bad-cop-with-a-grudge character is so badly written (and directed) that he looks and sounds like a bad Jack Palance imitation. It's embarrassing to watch...