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Boyce, the real-life Falcon of the book and movie called The Falcon and the Snowman, claims the security check he underwent in 1974 "was a joke." If investigators had talked to just one his friends, he testified, they would have found a "room full disillusioned longhairs, counter culture falconers, druggie surfers, several wounded, paranoid vets, pot-smoking, anti-Establishment types." Instead, Boyce was not only hired but was assigned to monitor secret worldwide communications between...
...factoids, combined with the paper's abundant charts and polls, offer enough addictive minutiae each day to fuel a game of Trivial Pursuit. What is the original name of Falcon Crest? (The Vintage Years); what is America's favorite kind of cheesecake topping? (cherry); which color houses sell best? (yellow...
...networks this summer are launching an unprecedented wave of new programming. Eight series are debuting for limited runs of five to seven weeks, along with an unusual number of first-run TV movies and specials. CBS has taken the surprising step of dumping summer reruns of Dallas and Falcon Crest, two top-rated shows that do poorly in repeats, in favor of movies...
Thursday, March 24. Huston’s The Maltese Falcon (U.S., 1941). 8 p.m. Introduced by novelist Robert B. Parker. Brattle Theater. $9. Tickets available at theater or www.brattlefilm.org...
...pedophiles? It's a question being asked four months after U.S. Customs agents presented the country's authorities with a list of suspects caught buying child pornography on the Internet. The agents told Time that none of the dozens of New Zealanders on the list - originating from Operation Falcon, which targeted purchasers of child pornography from websites originating in Belarus - have yet been arrested. Using records of the customers' credit card transactions, U.S. agents amassed a list of over 95,000 potential recipients of child pornography. Offenders were traced to a score of countries, including Australia and New Zealand...