resurrected...

for a little while. i actually have a monday movie! it's a pretty recent release starring the oscar winner for this movie, the ex-husband of this actress, and Romulus' (not related to Remus) daughter.

give up w/ the vague six degrees (well, three...)? i'm talking about Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, and Laura Linney. they're the main stars of 'Breach'...a thriller based on the true story of a longtime FBI agent, Robert Hanssen (Cooper), whose assistant (Phillippe) has been planted as a mole and sent to out him by Kate Burroughs (Linney), a senior official bent on catching Hanssen red-handed in the act of divulging (i.e., selling) yet more secrets to the russians; something he had been doing without detection for more than fifteen years.

a better than average thriller. not much action but the tension between the characters and the uncertainty of Phillippe's character, Eric O'Neill, kept the audience riveted (or at least interested). throughout the movie, you wonder if Hanssen will ultimately catch O'Neill rummaging through his personal belongings or if he will finally fall into the trap set for his demise...very cat and mouse. granted, the movie was by no means a hitchcockian masterpiece, but it was well worth the $1.75 ticket at the cheapies (even if the theater did kinda smell like overbuttered, mildewy popcorn). btw, since tomorrow is 50 cent (not the rapper) tuesday, you may want to head down to Tiffany Plaza 6 at 12:45pm | 3:00 | 5:10 | 7:15 | 9:20 for the show.

btw, here's a pic of the REAL Hanssen. he was paid $50,000 for his last drop (of documents). on february 18, 2001, he was arrested in the sting and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in may 2002. supposedly, he had been paid over $1.5 million in cash and diamonds in his fifteen years as a double agent. the state of colorado is significant in the life of this convicted spy because he is actually serving his sentence at the Supermax penitentiary, near Florence, CO.

look like a happy place? not especially since most of the inmates there spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement. they're constantly under video camera surveillance in a tiny and usually windowless cell. even the cell walls are soundproofed, as to deter any clandestine communication between inmates. sounds like SO much fun...