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...story that has inspired an opera, two hit movies (the French The Return of Martin Guerre in 1982 and the U.S. Sommersby in 1993) and a trio of Broadway-style musicals. The biggest of these is the $5.7 million production, from the creators of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, that opened last week in London...
...found myself thinking about this recently as I sat in the Saigon office of Le Hong Thanh, a former Viet Cong colonel and now director of a Vietnamese film-distribution company. As always, I was in town on a fault-finding mission, but here in the land of our former enemy, I kept getting derailed by the extravagant civility of my hosts. Thanh, having already provided the twin amenities of green tea and air conditioning, was just then regaling me with a prolonged description of what might best be described as extreme screening...
...play made Charlie a very crabby combatant. Indeed, troops would sometimes demand to see a movie before they would consent to fight. Had the U.S. command known this, of course, it could have significantly altered the course of the war by buying up all the projectors carried by Saigon electronics stores, which was where the V.C. shopped for their Bell & Howells...
...missions in the first place. North Vietnam's Hanoi agents "had penetrated the operation from the beginning," says Sedgwick Tourison, a former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst who has written a book on the operation (Secret Army, Secret War; Naval Institute Press). For three years, the agency's Saigon station continued to send teams into North Vietnam even as evidence mounted that the North Vietnamese seemed always to know where and when they were coming. Some captured radio operators, ordered by the North Vietnamese to ask for more agents, managed to signal to their CIA handlers with code words that they...
...well played, then it will touch anybody, anywhere." And if the music fails to touch audiences, there's always the video, which can be seen on VH1 and features Vanessa-Mae in tight hot pants, strolling saucily on the beach and looking for all the world like a Saigon B-girl circa...