This is not about elections, steel dossiers, or FBI reports I will never read. This is all about how sexy, crazy, cool, and dangerous those Russians can be on screen and off.

Movies with actors doing Russian Things:

1. Vanessa Angel from Spies Like Us
2. Viggo Mortenson from that one killer movie, Eastern Promises
3. Everyone in White Nights. Even Gregory Hines, a defector from the U.S. Mikhail Baryshnikov, Helen Mirren, and Isabella Rossellini
4. Salt - Angelina Jolie

Red Sparrow is a film, starring Jennifer Lawrence, about a young ballerina recruited into an elite organization of spies who use sex, not guns as a weapon.

• Red Sparrow opened at the wrong time of the #metoo movement, or was it just in time to justify the cause?

This, That and Other News

• The case of Sergei and Anna Chapman.
• Maria Butina who sales couches and US gun toting charm.
• This guy fakes his own death to elude an assassination plot.
• Sex coaches offer up the goods, America doesn't bite.
• The Cold War scare. Even in the early eighties, we had to prepare for a potential bomb scare/ nuclear fallout. Duck and cover.

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