Now that it looks like Bond's done, this could be a bigger movie
than we realize. I'd actually roll with Scarlett Johannsen. If she
can pull off the accent...I'm good.
Make this movie about all 11 of the spies and it could be fun!
On Jul 3, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
Didn't know that Chapman was petite, having only seen her from the
waist up a couple of times. And I saw Hendricks over Staite because
Chapman comes across to me as more forward in projecting her
sexuality. Staite's really crept up on me. I really didn't notice
her charms until late in her run on "Stargate: Atlantis".
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Keith Johnson
<keithbjohn...@comcast.net> wrote:
Hendricks is a bit more--ah--substantial than Chapman, who seems to
be fairly petite. Besides, with Staite you have more of a chance to
build a spy character who, like Chapman, is probably disarming and
charming at first, sexy but subtle--a smoldering temptress. With
Hendricks, it's more like a bonfire coming at you!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Baxter" <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 3, 2010 7:02:26 AM
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Okay, Who's Gonna Play the Russian Spy in
the Movie?
Keith, my first thought at casting CHapman went to another
"Firefly" alum, Christina Hendricks. Extra cred in this, because
she just topped one of those innumerable Beautiful People Lists.
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:38 AM, Keith Johnson
<keithbjohn...@comcast.net> wrote:
Despite the large number of people being charged, the focus of the
whole affair in the media is undoubtedly mostly on this lady. I've
seen her described as the "Sexy spy", the "sultry spy", etc.
They're all but leering over some kind of Mahta Hari aspect to this
thing, as evidenced by the NY Daily News article below. And the
fact that her dad was KGB, her ex-husband says he was "scary"?
Well, this has "book" and "movie" written all over it. I guarantee
you H'wood is already tossing around ideas as to who'll play a sexy
young red haired ingenue who is in reality a cold, manipulative
Russian agent. In terms of looks, I could see "Firefly" and
"Stargate Atlantis" star Jewel Staite:
Chapman: http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/06/30/
alg_anna_chapman_closeup.jpg
Staite: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/43/79175487_e683e972db.jpg
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/
2010/07/02/2010-07-02_spy_babe_raised_by_kgb_daddy.html
The red apple didn't fall far from the tree.
Anna Chapman - the sexy star of this summer's spy saga - is the
daughter of a former KGB agent, reports from Moscow and London say.
As nine of the 11 accused spies appeared in court Thursday - and
prosecutors revealed that at least one has confessed his loyalty to
Russia - more details emerged about the slinky Manhattan spook who
has caught the world's fancy.
Anna Chapman is really Anya Kushchenko, the daughter of Vasily
Kushchenko, a diplomat who worked in Russian embassies in Africa.
Her British ex-husband, Alex Chapman, told the Daily Telegraph in
London she said her father - still a top official in Russia's
Foreign Affairs Ministry - had been "high up in the ranks of the KGB."
"He was scary," Chapman said of his former father-in-law, whom he
met on his honeymoon in Zimbabwe. "He always seemed to have a lot
more security than the other diplomats. He had a Land Rover with
blacked-out windows and there was always one car in front of it and
one car behind."
Father and daughter were close, he said.
"I felt she would have done anything for her dad," Chapman told the
newspaper. "When I saw that she had been arrested on suspicion of
spying, it didn't come as much of a surprise to be honest."
The couple married in 2002, five months after they met in a London
nightclub. She moved from Moscow to London and worked for Barclay's
Bank, said Chapman, who is training to be a shrink.
"Toward the end of our marriage she became very secretive, going
for meetings on her own with 'Russian friends.'... She was
transformed into someone with access to a lot of money, boasting
about all the influential people she was meeting."
They were divorced in 2006.
He said that though she had always disliked Americans, complaining
about their accents, she suddenly decided in 2007 she wanted to
exploit "business opportunities" in the U.S. She moved to New York
that year.
They kept in touch. Chapman said his ex-wife sounded "distant" when
they last spoke four weeks ago.
One of New York's other accused spies, Yonkers college Prof. Juan
Lazaro, declared his total loyalty to Moscow after his arrest, the
government said.
In his "lengthy postarrest statement," Lazaro also admitted that
his wife, Peruvian El Diario columnist Vicky Pelaez, traveled to
Peru to deliver Lazaro's invisible ink letters to "the Service" -
the Russian SVR, which used to be called the KGB, prosecutors said.
Lazaro told prosecutors he loved the 17-year-old son he had with
Pelaez, but "he would not violate his loyalty to the Service, even
for his son."
Lazaro, who once taught at CUNY's Baruch College, admitted Moscow
paid for his house and that he wasn't really born in Uruguay or
named Juan Lazaro, but he wouldn't reveal his real identity,
prosecutors said.
Nine of the 10 suspects appeared in court in Boston, Virginia and
Manhattan to petition for bail. All were denied but Pelaez, who is
to be freed to house arrest as soon as Tuesday on $250,000 bail.
"This would give her an opportunity to explain," said her lawyer
Carlos Moreno. "She is not a spy for Russia."
Chapman was previously ordered held without bond. The 11th suspect,
accused paymaster Christopher Metsos, was on the lam after skipping
bail in Cyprus.
New documents appear to partially exonerate Pelaez. Prosecutors
said that unlike the other defendants, she was not trained in
espionage by Moscow and did not use a false name.
The FBI found eight unmarked envelopes, each containing $10,000 in
crisp new $100 bills, in Pelaez and Lazaro's safe deposit box.
Their son was in the courtroom for the hearing.
The future of the six children that the feds say three of the
Russian couples bore to make their cover more convincing remains up
in the air.
Besides the two Boston teenagers, Patricia Mills and Michael
Zottoli have two toddlers, and Richard and Cynthia Murphy of
Montclair, N.J., have two daughters, 11 and 7.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/
2010/07/02/2010-07-02_spy_babe_raised_by_kgb_daddy.html#ixzz0sbBOLsZ7
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"If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the
bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
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"If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the
bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
