ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióMore than 20 victims were identified as being from Haina, the hometown of Pérez located just southwest of Santo Domingo. Its mayor said officials would offer the families free funeral services.
ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióSo goes much of the crackling patter ofólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióSteven Soderbergh’s delicious marital drama cloaked as a sleek spy thriller. Lean and taut, the 93-minute “Black Bag” is more a sizzling amuse-bouche than full-course meal, but it’s simmered to perfection.
ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióGeorge and Kathryn, as fellow agents at London’s National Cyber Security Centre, don’t seemingly have what you might call a traditional marriage. Each has their own secret ops, leaving large swaths of their lives off limits to the other. When George asks where Kathryn is flying off to on Wednesday, she shrugs with a smile, “Black bag.”ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióIn the movie’s opening scene – a slinky tracking shot that trails George into and out of a nightclub – an agent named Meacham (Gustaf Skarsgard) gives him the assignment to track down the mole, with the added wrinkle that Kathryn can’t be dismissed as a possible suspect. A cyber-worm device called Severus that’s capable of hacking into nuclear facilities has gone missing. The fate of the world, as it so often is, is said to be at stake.ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióBut, really, the state of George and Kathryn’s marriage is what interests us. Extreme though their situation is, their union is one that, like any couple, is built on trust and devotion, even if their professional lives demand the inverse. When George, lying on top of Kathryn tells her he’d do anything for her, she coos, “Would you kill?” It’s a fair-enough test to the bounds of wedded bliss, sure, but her second question matters even more. “Would you lie?”
ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióOver that dinner – a scintillating set piece around a darkened dinner table inside their London town house – we can quickly gather just how much the truth means to George. He’s renown for his powers with a polygraph. As a youngster, he even brought down his own father, uncovering his affair. “I don’t like liars,” George says through clenched teeth.ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióThey’re joined by Colonel James Stokes (Regé-Jean Page); the in-house psychologist Dr. Zoe Vaughan (Naomie Harris); the carousing spy Freddie Smalls (Tom Burke); and the newest NCSC recruit, cyber specialist Clarissa (Marisa Abela). Both are paired off in clandestine relationships that quickly emerge, among other secrets. More than state secrets, infidelity dominates the conversation.
ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióFassbender’s spook is an agent of precision. He wears gleaming black-framed glasses. When only a few drops of sauce land on his cuff, he immediately withdraws to change his shirt. Hard as it would seem, Fassbender has found a character almost as dispassionate and monotone as his methodical assassin in
ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióThis time, though, he’s not a loner. Blanchett’s Kathryn is kept more at a remove from us. She’s mysterious and aloof – a femme fatale, maybe, we’re led to wonder. An “aroma of hostility” accompanies her, Zoe tells her in a psych evaluation. Is she the mole?ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióBrown then said, “How much do you fellas need?” and wrote out a check for $75,000 to cover the start of rehearsals. “Suddenly, the world turned Technicolor,” Strouse remembered.
ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióThe popularity of “Birdie” spawned a film (with Van Dyke, Janet Leigh and Ann-Margret) in 1963 and a television adaptation with Jason Alexander and Vanessa Williams in 1995.ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióStrouse and Adams gave several non-musical theater stars, including Sammy Davis Jr. and Lauren Bacall, stage successes.
ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióFor “Golden Boy” (1964), based on the Clifford Odets play, Strouse and Adams had to get Davis’ OK for everything. “His agents would not let him sign the contract until he approved every word and note that Lee and I wrote,” the composer told the AP. “Which meant that we had to, at great expense to the producer, follow Sammy all over the world. ... We spent three years of our lives, a week or so each month, out in Las Vegas, playing songs for him.”ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendició“Applause” (1970) was adapted from the Mary Orr short story that became the cinema classic “All About Eve.” It was Bacall’s musical-theater debut, and the actress won a Tony for her performance, as did Strouse and Adams for their score.