John le Carré

[luka]

id watch it

 

[version]

I just have. It's good. Very grim.

 

[luka]

whos the actor playing the english spy?

 

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whos the actor playing the english spy?

Richard Burton.

 

[luka]

hes got a nice voice.

 

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[kid charlemagne]

i'd prob love this guy..... better than jim thompson i bet

 

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i'd prob love this guy..... better than jim thompson i bet

Watch the Sinatra speech. You'll love it.

 

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Watched The Tailor of Panama last night. Basically an update of Our Man in Havana and has Brosnan playing a sleazier Bond. Good timing too, what with Trump's recent gesturing at the canal.

 

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@Corpsey

 

[Corpsey]

I'd like to watch that. Me and my mates revere Brosnan for his performances in Taffin, Robinson Crusoe, Grey Owl and The Lawnmower Man. And this film might actually not be a stinking pile of shit.

 

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[Corpsey]

Is there a bit in this when he's shagging a posh woman with short hair

 

[Corpsey]

It is, i looked it up on a mr skin style site

I used to find that very arousing cos she looked like a fitter version of a teacher i fancied at school

True story

 

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It cuts back and forth between them sensually dancing to Panamanian music in a bar and fucking in his hotel room.

 

[version]

It is, i looked it up on a mr skin style site

I used to find that very arousing cos she looked like a fitter version of a teacher i fancied at school

True story

 

[Corpsey]

This is how I thought i looked in cyprus when i was telling all my leftie friends that all lives matter

 

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He's like a shark.

 

[Corpsey]

I find JLC very attractive too, like a beautiful man with great boobs

 

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Reading an FT review of a biography of one of the blokes who inspired his characters. Mad life.

Maxwell Knight was one of the most eccentric spymasters of the 20th century. When he wasn’t recruiting spies, he was collecting unlikely pets. New recruits arriving for training in his flat were confronted with a parrot, a toad, an Indian mongoose and several grass snakes. They may have been grateful to learn that he had sent his pet bear Bessie to the zoo on the grounds that “breeding bears in a private establishment is something which is not very practical”.

Knight’s rise to prominence was unlikely. A period as a naval cadet in the first world war was followed by a career as a dissolute Soho jazz musician. He was cut off financially by his uncle and in 1922, at the age of 23, found a job as a school games teacher. It was now that he was recruited by a private intelligence agency run by maverick anti-communist Makgill, who set him the inauspicious task of infiltrating the British Fascisti.

He was already adept at gaining the trust of animals and adapted these skills to train men and, more unusually, women.

The eccentric British spy chief who inspired le Carré and Fleming

An engaging and suspenseful biography of MI5 spymaster Maxwell Knight

www.ft.com

https://archive.ph/rz61S