Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seated at a table between a vase of lilies and her agent yesterday, Pulitzer-winning author Alice Walker signed books at the Harvard Coop and elaborated on her billing of her fourth novel as "A romance of 500,000 years...
...heart of this conspiracy drama is the specter of the powerful Creative Artists Agency, headed by superagent Michael Ovitz. Ovitz was Belushi's agent, and his company's star-packed client list includes several of the comedian's friends who were angered by Woodward's book, among them fellow Saturday Night Live star Dan Aykroyd, SNL producer Lorne Michaels and brother Jim Belushi. Reluctance to alienate Ovitz and his clients, claim the film's producers, is what frightened most of Hollywood away. "In this town," says co-producer Edward Feldman (Save the Tiger, Witness), "the word was put out that...
...engaged in small talk about Koop's busy schedule and Mapplethorpe's latest exhibition, organized by Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art. "Robert had been thrilled about the prospect of shooting Koop," says Anne Kennedy, the photographer's agent. "He had enormous respect for him and his compassion for people suffering from AIDS. He really rallied to do this. He had been spending most days in bed." Out of respect for the Surgeon General's well-known views on smoking, Mapplethorpe hid his cigarettes before Koop arrived...
...Salinas crackdown was greeted with cautious optimism by agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Felix Gallardo, the richest and most cunning member of the infamous "Guadalajara cartel," is blamed for exporting at least two tons of cocaine to the U.S. each month. He is a prime suspect in the 1985 abduction and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. Many DEA agents wondered why it took so long to capture Felix Gallardo, since he had been living openly in Guadalajara. Some suspected that his arrest had been timed to coincide with last week's "law-enforcement summit" between U.S. Attorney...
...rose high enough in its ranks to rate consideration as its potential chief. Yet by the time he disappeared in 1963, only to surface in the Soviet Union a few months later, it was painfully clear that Philby all along had been not only a Soviet agent but also, as Knightley calls him, "the most remarkable spy in the history of espionage...