rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) (02/10/86)
This week PBS features a dramatization (in Boston, WGBH-TV, channel 2, airs it on Friday, 2/14/86, 9:30 pm) with actor Alan Bates, who's allegedly gay, as Guy Burgess, the gay Englishman who recruited Kim Philby, Alistair (?) MacLean, Anthony Blunt, and others as Soviet spies while they were at Cambridge (?) in the 1930s. Rupert Everett played the adolescent Burgess at public school in the movie ANOTHER COUNTRY. For yet another account of the gay spy circle at Cambridge, see Michael Straight's autobiography. I don't remember the name of the program (Great Performances??). Covertly yours, Ron Rizzo
apak@oddjob.UUCP (Adrian Kent) (02/12/86)
Organization: U. Chicago: Physics Keywords: In article <1692@bbncca.ARPA> rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) writes: >This week PBS features a dramatization (in Boston, WGBH-TV, channel 2, >airs it on Friday, 2/14/86, 9:30 pm) with actor Alan Bates, who's >allegedly gay, as Guy Burgess, the gay Englishman who recruited >Kim Philby, Alistair (?) MacLean, Anthony Blunt, and others as >Soviet spies while they were at Cambridge (?) in the 1930s. That's Donald MacLean (Alastair's the novelist). Cambridge is right. The program "An Englishman Abroad" is supposed to be a minor classic, according to friends and critics whose taste I respect. (I've never seen it.) Adrian Kent > >Rupert Everett played the adolescent Burgess at public school >in the movie ANOTHER COUNTRY. For yet another account of the >gay spy circle at Cambridge, see Michael Straight's autobiography. > >I don't remember the name of the program (Great Performances??). > > Covertly yours, > Ron Rizzo