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From: apak@oddjob.UUCP (Adrian Kent)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Alan Bates as spy recruiter Guy Burgess
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Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 01:42:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 01:42:03 1986
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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