'THE COMPANY' WILL INTRIGUE YOU.Byline: DAVID David, in the Bible David, d. c.970 B.C., king of ancient Israel (c.1010–970 B.C.), successor of Saul. The Book of First Samuel introduces him as the youngest of eight sons who is anointed king by Samuel to replace Saul, who had been deemed a failure. KRONKE >TV CRITIC Each installment of "The Company" begins with a quotation from "Alice in Wonderland," which is appropriate given the miniseries' through-the-looking-glass story lines. TNT's miniseries, which tidily streamlines more than 30 years in the life of the Cold War into six brisk hours, fairly bulges with intrigue, incident and paranoia. It operatives from the CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). and the KGB as they butt heads, attempt to flip agents and, in general, are in constant crisis wondering who they can trust. Chris O'Donnell stars as Jack McAuliffe, recruited by the Agency out of college and mentored by the colorful Harvey Torriti (Alfred Molina), whose nickname, the Sorcerer, only hints at how adept he is at obfuscation ob·fus·cate tr.v. ob·fus·cat·ed, ob·fus·cat·ing, ob·fus·cates 1. To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand: "A great effort was made . . . . Michael Keaton is excellent as James Angleton, a chain-smoking counter-intelligence genius who is utterly precise at everything he does -- and is utterly obsessed with finding a KGB mole within the CIA, even if one may not actually exist. On the other side is Yevgeny Tsipin (Rory Cochrane), a KGB agent who likes Americans personally but hates what the country stands for, and Starik (Ulrich Thomsen), an ingenious spymaster spy·mas·ter n. One who directs clandestine intelligence activities. Noun 1. spymaster - someone who directs clandestine intelligence activities master - directs the work of others with an ambitious plan for destroying America's economy. As tautly and epigrammatically ep·i·gram·mat·ic also ep·i·gram·mat·i·cal adj. 1. Of or having the nature of an epigram. 2. Containing or given to the use of epigrams. scripted by Ken Nolan ("Black Hawk Down") and crisply directed by Mikael Salomon (TNT's "The Grid"), "The Company" treks urgently through history -- Berlin before the wall was built, Hungary during the '50s uprising, the Bay of Pigs The Bay of Pigs (Spanish: Bahía de Cochinos, also known as Playa Girón) is an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones on the south coast of Cuba. and the collapse of the Soviet Union. It may be light on action but it's heavy on intrigue, and if viewers discern an echo of the unease of that era in our own, that can't be said to be accidental. David Kronke, (818) 713-3638 david.kronke@dailynews.com www.insidesocal.com/tv/ THE COMPANY - Three stars >What: Miniseries on the CIA and KGB during the Cold War. >Where: TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. >When: 8 tonight, repeating at 10 p.m. and midnight tonight, through Aug. 19. >In a nutshell: Bristies with urgent intrigue. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: CIA recruit Jack McAuliffe (Chris O'Donnell, left) is mentored by veteran agent Harvey Torriti (Alfred Molina) in the new TNT miniseries "The Company." |
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