Word: nikita
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...they have no problem accepting the fact that they are engaged in something that appears treasonable to all but the most trained observer. That doesn't make any sense. What kind of benefits exist as compensation for this depression era job security? The scenario in La Femme Nikita is more plausible. Do a nasty deed, get blackmailed into doing several more, only for the good guys this time...
...plan had worked--and it came fearfully close--Nikita Khrushchev, the bellicose Premier of the Soviet Union, would in one mighty stroke have changed the power balance of the Cold War. Once again, a foreign dictator had seemingly misread the character of the U.S. and of a U.S. President. At Vienna and later, Khrushchev had sized up Kennedy as a weakling, given to strong talk and timorous action. The U.S. itself, he told Poet Robert Frost, was "too liberal to fight." Now, in the Caribbean, he intended to prove his point. And Berlin would surely come next...
...NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV 1957 Repudiating Stalin and launching Sputnik...
...election, and his history of health problems, including years of venereal disease. Then there was his real role in the murder of South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem and in CIA attempts to kill Fidel Castro--there's the Mob again--as well as his inflated victory over Nikita Khrushchev in the Cuban missile crisis. Mob leader Giancana was Bobby's first suspect in his brother's assassination, says Hersh. He knew the Mafia felt betrayed because Bobby's Justice Department had targeted them even after they had done favors for the government...
...Besson, La Femme Nikita (1990). Anne Parillaud is a slinky yet conflicted hitwoman in Paris. Must be seen, if only for the Jean Reno cameo. Sadly, a promising American remake was dragged down by Dermot Mulroney. Skip...