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...charges are true--Nicholson's two attorneys, Jonathan Shapiro and Liam O'Grady, say their client will fight them vigorously--then Nicholson would have been either a very cool customer or a weirdly reckless one; maybe both. He allegedly went to work for the Russians just as the CIA was in an uproar over Ames, the most important mole ever discovered within the agency. On the basis of information Ames provided over almost nine years of betrayal, Moscow executed at least 10 Soviets working secretly for American intelligence. Anger and embarrassment led the agency to swear it would never happen...
Bold presence that goes unnoticed--now there is something Liam Neeson knows a bit about. With a 6-ft. 4-in. frame and a face that is memorably poetic in its asymmetry, Neeson, 44, has always possessed movie-star aura. But it took Hollywood nearly a decade to figure out how to capture it. By the time Neeson landed the role of Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg's monumental Holocaust elegy, the Irish actor had already appeared in 23 mostly unheralded films. And yet, even though Schindler's List won Neeson the kind of praise and splashy recognition (including...
With Michael Collins, the elegantly brawny actor finally has a made-to-fit picture he can rightfully think of as his own. "It is one of those movies where the entire film is defined by the central performance," concedes Collins director Neil Jordan. "And Liam carries the film through like a train. He never stops." To be sure, Collins provides Neeson with a lot of big scenes in which to holler and pound tables and make like a potential Academy Award winner, but the quieter moments are his most impressive ones. For example, in a scene in which Collins meets...
Even though it took him 13 years to bring Michael Collins to the screen, Jordan never had anyone but Neeson in mind for the role of the Irish revolutionary and guerrilla tactician. "Liam has got this terribly honest heart beneath everything," Jordan notes. "One of my worries was that the audience would perhaps lose sympathy for Collins because what he does is so ferocious, but halfway through I realized Liam could chop up his grandmother and he'd still be a sympathetic...
...presented as revolutionary warriors generally are by their admirers: as a practical soldier, a man of rough humor, mostly inarticulate idealism and, perhaps, a certain unspoken regret about that "talent for mayhem" (as he puts it), which is as much burden as gift. And he is embodied by Liam Neeson, who is near perfect in the role. There is an old-fashioned romanticism to the actor, a mysterious darkness beneath the dashing surface of this performance. Something behind Neeson's eyes hints at an authentic sadness about the center's failure to hold, real rue about the violence with which...