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Fred's cover blown by Today Show correspondent.
The lovely Maria Menounos, “Scrubs” actress and celebrity news magazine personality, was recently spied getting cheeky with none other than our main man Fred. This revealing photo shows him resting comfortably in her arms at the Victoria’s Secret PINK Sorority House. Rumor has it that they left together shortly following the snapshot. Our sources are working tirelessly to confirm.
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The classic secret agent thriller condensed into :30.
Apparently a few years back there was an event in North Carolina called the Raleigh International Spy Conference. To promote the event, the organizers hired local ad agency The Republik. The image above is a still from their television spot, which stands as the greatest 30 second spy film ever made. Watch it once, watch it again, watch it a 3rd time and enjoy
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Bonnie and Clyde
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Ballade de Melody Nelson
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French pop icon Serge Gainsbourg is the rich homme’s R. Kelly. He’s sold millions of records, forged cultural trends, epitomized the playboy lifestyle and is wholly embraced by his country. All this in spite of writing some of the most skeevy explorations of incest and pedophilia this side of Señor Kelly’s home video library. Only a man who crooned like Leonard Cohen, dressed like James Bond, drank like Keith Moon and smoked like Jack Kerouac could pull off such a stunt. As for his musical stylings, they’re the stuff of legend - and rightfully so. No casual collection is complete without him.
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Five super sweet espionage flicks that make you long for those cozy Cold War days.
Every man wants to be a spy and every woman wants to be with Sean Connery. So on the eve of Daniel Craig’s 007 debut, we’re exposing a top secret Fredlist dedicated to covert operations. posted by William E. Ocean |
5. The Falcon and The Snowman [1985]
Tim Hutton makes good for Turk 182, and a young Sean Penn gives the world a sneak preview of the manic nic-fit character he’ll be playing for the next 30 years. Both actors peak in this picture, all the way back in ‘85. |
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4. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold [1965]
He’s a spy. No wait, she’s a spy. No wait, they’re both... Come on, who’s zoomin’ who here? |
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3. Goldfinger [1964]
The gold standard for stylish 60’s spy romps, and the definitive 007 adventure. Roll call: Bond, Q, Moneypenny, Pussy Galore, Oddjob, a chick suffocated in gold, a laser castration tool and a pimped out Aston Martin. |
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2. The Conversation [1974]
A haunting look at American paranoia in the Watergate era. Coppola filmed this quiet masterpiece between Parts I & II of the Godfather, which means for a spell in the 70’s he was the undisputed world champion of filmmaking. |
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1. Notorious [1946]
Alfred Hitchcock’s middle name was Joseph, but it should have been an ellipsis, so you’d have to wait a moment to find out his last name. That’s how nasty the guy was at creating suspense. The aptly-named spy thriller Notorious is among his greatest cinematic achievements. |
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Honorable Mention: Spies Like Us [1985]
Aykroyd as Austin Millbarge, Chase as Emmett Fitz-Hume and Bernie Casey as Colonel Rhumbus. The names alone are reason enough to watch this classic again. At least until “the REAL Brownbridge and Greenbridge” show up. |
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Undercover eats: Punjab on Houston.
Tucked away on Houston between 1st Avenue and Avenue A is a yellow brick road of taxis terminating at the doorstep of Punjab Deli & Grocery. It’s a clandestine restaurant disguised as a hallway, easily missed except for the wonderful aroma billowing up from the always-ajar door. Inside, between one wall adorned with illustrations of holy men and another bearing flyers for car services, sits a long deli counter brimming with spicy vegetarian dishes. Two bucks gets you basmati rice and two sides. Two bucks! You can eat in their ample seating area, which lies everywhere except inside Punjab. Truly a place to run to when resources are tight and you think your cover is blown.
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Undercover drinks: Sunny’s in Red Hook
After a hard day of photographing classified documents with a cufflink camera, where does a double agent go to enjoy a discreet tipple? The note attached to the pigeon’s foot says Sunny’s Bar in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Your secrets are safe with Sunny, because who’s he gonna tell? The guy looks like he hasn’t seen the light of day since 1967, when he stopped in for a beer after a psychedelic peace protest. Little would you know from his Arlo Guthrie countenance that Sunny’s family is a Red Hook institution, and that he carries on the waterfront barkeep tradition of his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, who opened the place in 1890.
Though Sunny’s clientele throughout the 100+ years has consisted primarily of sailors, longshoremen and factory workers, today you’ll mostly find artists and hipsters hanging out amid the century-old shipping artifacts. And unless you played pedal steel on the new Arcade Fire record, they won’t pay you much mind. So get your secretive self out to the nethers of Brooklyn and pop in to say hello to the most interesting whisky slinger in New York.
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