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...underdog of Brazil but the terrorist. "I personally wouldn't work with Mr. Gilliam again," he says. "But it has nothing to do with his talents as a director. I don't respect his talent as a human being." Cheer up, Sid. A terrific movie has escaped the asylum without a lobotomy. The good guys, the few directors itching to make films away from the assembly line, won one for a change. Universal has an award-winning picture. Think of yourself as Santa, Sid, and Terry Gilliam as the little boy who got to fly, like Icarus, for Christmas...
...last Friday, Manuel Antonio Sanchez Perez was leaving a Madrid bank when three men jumped him. Sanchez, Cuba's deputy planning minister, who had been granted provisional asylum in Spain, fought furiously. "They're going to kill me!" he screamed as his pistolwaving assailants wrestled him into a waiting car driven by a woman accomplice. Some 30 to 50 bystanders quickly surrounded the auto. A cab pulled over and blocked the vehicle's escape while the crowd dragged Sanchez to safety, holding the would-be abductors until police arrived. All turned out to be Cuban embassy personnel, including the vice...
...little research of my own--with some unsettling finds. I started by investigating the man himself. FBI files show that there is no "Santa Claus" living anywhere in North America. The one "Chris Cringle" I was able to locate is an inmate in a Flat Pig, Missouri, insane asylum. Perhaps Santa lives in the North Pole, you say. Guess again. Military satellite photos of the icecap have shown no evidence of Santa's workshop anywhere above the 66th parallel. A brief glimmer of hope for believers occurred in 1958, when a NATO radar team on patrol spotted a large mansion...
...analyst had been taking home highly classified material. When confronted by the FBI, he readily admitted to receiving nearly $50,000 since early 1984 for peddling secrets to Israel. A few days later, Pollard and his wife, Anne Henderson-Pollard, drove to the Israeli embassy in Washington, seeking political asylum. The embassy turned them away, and Pollard was promptly arrested by FBI agents. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison on charges of espionage. Several days after his arrest, two Israeli diplomats were recalled to Jerusalem: Yosef Yagur, the science attache at the New York consulate...
Hunt writes in his report that Medved "rather impulsively decided to jump ship and seek political asylum, but not likely due to any extremely strong political or moral convictions, rather more consistent with his immature, impulsive, action-oriented personality style." Now there's an interesting conception of human nature. People don't act because of convictions or conditioning or complexes, but because of "action-oriented personality styles." Which makes everything crystal clear: Medved acted impulsively because he is an impulsive person...