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Hanssen's story is irresistible. The archconservative son of a Chicago cop, he worked diligently for the Russians. An ultra-orthodox Catholic, he sent nude pictures of his wife to his best friend and, in one of the weirdest discoveries of the Mailer/Schiller research, proposed that his friend use the date-rape drug Rohypnol to seduce her. No mere diagnosis of "mental disorder," says Mailer, could begin to grasp the man's complexities: "There are great holes in formal psychology. Hanssen just blazes through them...
...Company (June 7): In this year’s mismatched cop genre entry, Chris Rock plays a street hustler whose Harvard-educated CIA agent twin dies in the line of duty. Partnered with Anthony Hopkins, Rock joins the CIA to help solve the case his brother died working on. Helmed by the director that ruined the Batman franchise, this film is hardly going to be a masterpiece—the best one can hope for is that Hopkins’ and Rock’s presences raise this film above mediocrity...
...Monde were running stories on the massacre, the U.S. media dusted reports about Jenin under the carpet. Some U.S. publications responded to news of a massacre by momentarily cooling their anti-Palestinian rhetoric. For a brief time, the New York Times’ good cop/bad cop duo of Thomas Friedman and William Safire relented in their onslaught against Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority. Safire took a break from the Middle East and wrote on cosmetic surgery, while Friedman urged his readers to watch the Golf Channel instead of listening to news about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...counts of solicitation of murder. The aggravated-murder charge can carry the death penalty. Blake's bodyguard, Earle Caldwell, was also arrested, and police say he will be charged with one count of conspiracy to commit murder. A creepy bit of foreshadowing: in the pilot episode of Baretta, the cop's TV wife is killed outside a restaurant...
People don't work in movies. They play around, kick butt, fall in love or lust. How they cope with the pains and tiny triumphs of their jobs--in these things, films show virtually no interest, leaving that task to workplace sitcoms and cop and lawyer shows. The idea has always been that people won't pay to see at the 'plex what they just left in the office. To be forced to review our working lives on the big screen--that's not escape, that's overtime...