<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;">I'm wild about the books "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and the sequel "Smiley's People," and the BBC films made from them with Alec Guinness as George Smiley (James Mason had played the role in the movie made from the first Smiley book, "A Call for the Dead") are IMHO the best things ever made for television, just thrilling. "Smiley's People co-starred Curd Jurgens in his final film; Jurgens spent part of the Nazi era in a concentration camp for being "politically unreliable."</span><br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;">But I think the movie made from "The Russia House" with Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer and Klaus Maria Brandauer, with a wonderful Tom Stoppard screenplay, is the most romantic thriller I've ever seen.<br><br>As leCarre struggled to find villains after the Soviet Union vanished, I think he found a great new villain -- Big Pharma(ceutical corporations) -- in the tender and beautiful "The Constant Gardener," with Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz. <br><br>"The Tailor of Panama" turned out to be a real Ripping Yarn with Pierce Brosnan and Jamie Lee Curtis. The plot was very reminiscent of Graham Greene's "Our Man in Havana."<br><br>Microwave some popcorn and rent 'em all. It's like Sherlock Holmes with a brain and real emotions for adults.<br><br>Bob<br></span></font></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font><br>-----Original Message-----
<br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px; border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255);">From: maryellen jensen <maryellenjensen28@hotmail.com>
<br>Sent: Mar 14, 2011 3:14 PM
<br>To: f_minor@glenngould.org
<br>Subject: [f_minor] Kitty G. / le Carre
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<font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">Da,</font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">The real deal. Before our Master Glenn set off for the '57 Soviet Russian Tour his manager and the Canadian Gov't. made triple sure that when Gould returned he would still be allowed entry into the Good Old USA with no problems... a few problems did arise but they were all pharmaceutical, not political, in nature. </font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">Le Carre is here when you need him:</font><br><br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/24/carre-spy-came-cold-boyd"></a><a target="_blank" href="http://www.johnlecarre.com/books/our-kind-of-traitor">http://www.johnlecarre.com/books/our-kind-of-traitor</a><br><br><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">and </font><br><br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/24/carre-spy-came-cold-boyd">http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/24/carre-spy-came-cold-boyd</a><br><br><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">I personally enjoyed "Absolute Friends" but it was quite universally panned by The Press.</font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"><br><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">Mary</font> <br> </zzzbody>
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