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...played dozens of memorable roles: a Prime Minister (Disraeli), a Pope (Innocent III), a King (Charles I), a prince (Arabia's Faisal), a fanatical colonel (Nicholson, in The Bridge on the River Kwai), a mad dictator (Hitler), a Jedi knight (Obi-wan Kenobi) and a spymaster (George Smiley in TV adaptations of John le Carre's espionage sagas). Now, at 71, he has added another role to that impressive list: author of one of the best show-business memoirs of recent years, a witty, wise and consistently entertaining account of life under the greasepaint...
Even in fiction, espionage is treated as the dirty little secret of modern international politics. James Bond is good escapist fun, but the world of John le Carre is recognized as the real thing. The bookish, perpetually cuckolded George Smiley is not a hero because he champions Western civilization; rather, he is the melancholy rationalist, penetrating the ingenuity of other people's deceit. He is more honest, and braver in his honesty, than his colleagues. Yes, he fights Karla, his Soviet counterpart, but Smiley also does battle against the corruption of his own organization and society...
...place she drags me to turns out not to be no dump but more like a castle. Couple of Quaker brothers name of Smiley started it in 1869. Goes by the moniker of Mohonk Mountain House. It's 80 or 90 miles north of the city (I say the city because we all say the city, but if it's not your city I should say New York City). The place and the grounds are a real knockout, and the folks are nuts about plants, which grow in the ground, instead of in pots, where everybody knows God intended them...
...barrage of media scrutiny would have been unthinkable for those two discreet representatives of Her Majesty's Secret Service, George Smiley and James Bond. The formerly anonymous head of Britain's MI5 counterintelligence agency, Sir John Jones, 62, was doubtless shocked to find his picture, partly blotted out by government edict, in London's Sunday Times. A few days later, a national television audience got an unprecedented look at MI5's internal operations in a controversial documentary. In short, last week the lid was blown off Britain's venerable intelligence establishment. The reason, according to Liberal Party Leader David Steel...
...massive hunt and she hides him away in the country. Yet unbeknownst to Penny, her lover of the past year is also a secret agent working on the case who eventually leads Scaither to Kimberly. Le Carre fans will recognize this twist as a direct crib from Smiley's People, in which George Smiley, by kindnapping his Russian rival's daughter, pulls the heartstrings that lead to his archenemy's capture...