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...Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen probably wish they had waited a month or so before publishing Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage (Random House; 633 pages; $30). If they had, they could have sneaked in a page or two on the spectacular story of veteran CIA officer Harold Nicholson, who was arrested a few weeks ago for selling secrets to the Russians...
...shabby moneygrubbing. Pollard gets a job with Naval Intelligence and sells out to the Israelis. Ames succeeds thanks to the "incredible malfeasance" of colleagues who do not think it suspicious that he banks more than $1 million and drives a $40,000 Jaguar on a $69,000 salary. Nicholson, charged with, among other things, selling the Russians the names of CIA people he trained, flunks his own course in dry cleaning: he never suspects that for months he has been taped, wiretapped and photographed by counterintelligence agents...
...ever idealism played a role in espionage, people like Pollard, Ames and Nicholson killed it. Newcomers to the game who want romance will have to find it in the novels of Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene and John le Carre. Those chaps knew their craft: they were all successful spies...
...Gregers, profoundly contemptuous of the latter's lofty "claims of the ideal," convinced that the average man or family (like the Ekdals) needs lies and illusions, not ideals, to survive, the worldweary doctor is played effectively--almost too effectively--by Jack Willis, who cuts a Jack Nicholson-like figure with his sardonic drawl and menacing animus towards Gregers. His is the image that lasts, the voice that crowds out the others and cuts down even the moments of pathos, especially at the end. The Wild Duck may not be a tragedy, but there is a tragedy within it, which fails...
...second room, the subject shifts to celebrities, mostly models and actors. Ritts takes no single approach to photographing them. There is the cast of Batman Forever in full costume, including Jim Carrey hamming it up as the Riddler and a huge Warholesque quartet of portraits of Jack Nicholson as the Joker. There is Vanity Fair's gender-bending cover photo of Cindy Crawford playing the seductress for k.d. lang. Unlike the anonymous models of the first part of the exhibition, whose faces are often turned away or obscured, the faces of the celebrities are essential to their portraits. However, sometimes...