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...sort of spin-off of the 2005 BBC political comedy series The Thick of It, the movie is directed by series creator Armando Iannucci and written by Thick veterans Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche and Ian Martin. Its central character is a Candidean foreign minister in the British cabinet, Simon Foster (tiny, beset Tom Hollander). A sweet-souled doofus of the second tier, Simon is invited to attend to top-secret conferences, but not to give opinions, only as an extra body - "room meat." And he's so fearful of scandal that, if left alone at night...
...Truth to tell, the Brits get the best lines, and In the Loop sags when the U.S. government's antiwar faction starts macchiavelling. Iannucci & Co. have much more fun with American hawks like Donald Rumsfeld. The former Defense Secretary hardly needs caricaturing; he was his own David Levine cartoon. So the movie's Lynton Barwick (David Rasche) is just Rumsfeld with a haircut, not a lobotomy. "We don't need any more facts," Lynton proclaims. "In the land of truth, my friend, the man with one fact is the king." And he is in control of what passes for fact...
...done some career advising and I will function in that particular vein," says another advisor, Salvatore J. Iannucci, the Chief Executive Officer of Aaron Spelling Productions...
Charged with practicing veterinary medicine without a license was Edward L. Iannucci, 45, listed as an assistant in research pathology in Yale's personnel directory, actually the man in charge of keeping and handling dogs for medical researchers. The accusation was that on moving dogs to Yale, he had given them injections of barbiturates to knock them out. Nub of the state's case was that Iannucci (who once ran something that he called the Junior Animal Shelter in Hamden, just outside New Haven) had bought animals from dog wardens in adjacent towns for $2 or $3 each...
...primary suppliers in this neat racket were the dog wardens in surrounding towns. Warrants were out against eight of them, with more expected. Wardens get a uniform $4 fee for each stray dog they destroy. Instead of killing the animals, say the police, the wardens sold them to Iannucci or Ceccarelli, reported them destroyed, and collected their fees from the towns-hence the charge of fraud by a public officer...
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