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...mayor (producer Rich Lupo) wants to turn it into a mall. Fascist-for-President Robert Burgess (Bob Owczarek) wants to make a martyr of the owner, who happens to be his son. And a group of stooge-like European terrorists just want to blow...
...oratorio, the someone else was Carl Davis, an American-born film composer and accomplished pastiche artist. After McCartney wrote the text and invented the tunes, Davis arranged them slickly for soprano (Kiri Te Kanawa at the Liverpool premiere and on the recording), mezzo (Sally Burgess), tenor (Jerry Hadley), bass (Willard White), boy soprano, chorus, cathedral choir and full orchestra...
...Fifth Man," the British spy for the Soviet Union who worked with Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt during and after World War II? For four decades, espionage fans have had no shortage of suspects. Last year Soviet defector Oleg Gordievsky published a book, KGB: The Inside Story, in which he fingered a scholarly Cambridge graduate named John Cairncross as the mystery man. Cairncross admitted long ago that he spied for the Soviets, but at the level of a footsoldier and in an effort to aid a wartime ally. The British government believed...
...agency's biggest heroes. Included in the set: Kim Philby, the notorious mole in the British intelligence service who defected to Moscow in 1963 and joined the KGB's inner circle. In jest, Senator Boren asked his Soviet host why Philby's equally famous fellow double agents, Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean, had not been given their own stamps. "That's the next series," replied Kryuchkov...
...author of the new book KGB: The Inside Story. In addition to revealing in a TIME excerpt last week that President Franklin Roosevelt's key aide, Harry Hopkins, was an unwitting accomplice of the KGB, Gordievsky contends that Cairncross was a member of a spy ring that included Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt. Though Cairncross was ousted from a sensitive government post in 1951 for allegedly passing documents to the Soviets, his spy connection was never proved. Last week he continued to deny that he is the missing link. But British intelligence sources back up Gordievsky...