Word: mangold
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...combination of coltishness and placidity that have turned her into an art-house goddess, an American answer to European actresses like Emmanuelle Beart and Julie Delpy. Her two current films present Tyler as an almost celestial object around whom innumerable admirers revolve. Both Stealing Beauty and director James Mangold's Heavy--which won a Grand Jury prize at the Sundance film festival this year--drop her in insular worlds where her beauty and quiet sexuality generate more rattle than hum. Yet Tyler also projects a work-in-progress quality, an appropriately teenage openness. Mangold says he knew as soon...
...Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty, Tyler visits a Tuscan villa where the regulars rhapsodize over her innocence, her naturalness, her cutiful-beautifulness. In James Mangold's Heavy, she is a waitress at an upstate New York diner, and the cow-size chef gets mooncalf eyes at her approach. These movies are all about looking at Liv. They are votive offerings to a budding star from old connoisseurs and randy swains. When the camera isn't genuflecting before Tyler, it's copping a feel...
Those sensational charges are advanced by British author Tom Mangold in a new book, Cold Warrior (Simon & Schuster; $22.95), and provide the basis for a PBS Frontline special, The Spy Hunter, airing May 14. Though allegations of wrenching divisions within the CIA in the 1960s and early '70s are not new, Mangold has managed to corroborate many of the details in interviews with former CIA officials who were so distressed over events of that era that they were willing to break their vow of silence. After three years of research, Mangold concludes that counterintelligence and the recruitment of Soviets -- both...
...part of a Soviet plot to plant a mole, stuffed the report in a safe and ignored its contents. When Angleton's successor, George Kalaris, followed up the information, all of the 20 leads it contained resulted in arrests and convictions of important Soviet agents. "In each instance," says Mangold, "spies continued to operate for seven to 10 years because of Angleton's neglect...