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PRESS: Spy vs. Steven Seagal...
Seagal used to enjoy hinting mysteriously about the "special work and favors" he did for "many powerful people" in Asia in the '70s. Sounds suitably spooky. "Steven likes to be at the cutting edge of the unsaid truths about 'how the world works,' " says director Andrew Davis (Above the Law, Under Siege). "He enjoys that kind of stuff . . . He tries to live it." But Strickland and Gary Goldman, an ex-mercenary who worked on a Seagal script before falling out with the star, have insisted that Seagal purloined these life-or-death exploits from actual agents. Writer Alan Richman addressed...
Connolly has other hairy charges: that Seagal was a bigamist when he was courting his current wife, actress Kelly LeBrock; that two female aides were paid to keep quiet about his sexual harassment of them; that among his friends are kinfolk of various godfathers and gonifs. "Steven likes to hang out with the underworld of espionage," says J.F. Lawton, who wrote Under Siege, "and maybe also of crime. But I don't see Steven rubbing anyone out. And if you have Michael Ovitz behind you, you don't really need...
...star witness is Strickland, a former CIA agent who suffers from depression and has been institutionalized 11 times. Nonetheless, Strickland's psychiatrist, Dr. Paul Ackerman of Los Angeles, says he "is not insane, has absolutely no delusions or hallucinations." Today Strickland is in hiding, because, he says, "I think Steven's dangerous. He's got the money and some very near-the- edge people who follow him around." Yet he believes that Seagal would not personally carry out acts of violence, "because he's a very timid guy. I've seen him back down when he was confronted...
...which has long had an edgy relationship with movie stars -- it has made its reputation by soiling theirs -- may soon find out if Steven Seagal is dangerous or timid. Both the star and the magazine are under siege and out for justice...