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Underground: The Julian Assange Story
Sunday, April 14th, 2013
by Winnefred Ann Frolik on Playing Around
There’s never any peace. They need to sell bombs. So they’ll find another war. So proclaims a teenage Julian Assange (an incredibly natural Alex Williams)
Zero Dark Thirty – Kathryn Bigelow Tackles the Hunt for Osama bin Laden
Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
by Claire McCurdy on Playing Around
On March 2 2009 Barack Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder says the administration cannot condone waterboarding as torture which simulates drowning, an interrogation technique for
Bond Villains – Evil, Diabolical, and Fascinating
Saturday, November 17th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around
There were spies everywhere—on stage, in the audience, lurking in the corridors. Once they lived clandestine lives, spying for their countries, facing dangers, risking their
The Spy Museum’s Peter Earnest: Why We Love James Bond
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around
Peter Earnest believes the new James Bond film, Skyfall, may be the best in the franchise’s 50 year history. He also gives high marks to
SEAL Team Six – The Raid on Osama Bin Laden
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
by Winnefred Ann Frolik on Playing Around
“For God and Country Geronimo was KIA.” Lt. Commander It’s rare at a movie premiere to have the film’s director (John Stockwell) make a point
Nelson DeMille’s The Panther – Tracking a Terrorist in Yemen
Sunday, October 28th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Reading Around
No good deed goes unpunished. In Nelson DeMille’s last thriller, John Corey, former NYPD homicide detective and now an agent with the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around
Oh, how we long for the early days of 007, when James Bond battled Communists. Remember Lotte Lenya as the SPECTRE agent Rosa Klebbe who
Tony Denison aka Andy Flynn Talks AboutThe Closer, Major Crimes, and Provenza (G.W. Bailey)
Monday, July 16th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around
They are Abbott and Costello, yin and yang, Frick and Frack. They have even inspired a nickname, “Flyvenza.” While Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson played
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