Matt, > Doesn't he [Cosmo] at one point say to Robert Redford Now I remember. Martin is his character's name. > about his > crime connections, "That's just my day job," and he moves the > conversation into a sealed room to prevent his discussion with > RR from being bugged by his Bosses (capital B)? Yes. A key scene for me: The Cray room dialogue. I have titled it like that because the computer in that sealed room where they sit on to talk is a Cray. They are actually sitting on the cooling engines. When Cray designed that supercomputer they did not know what to make of the heat sinks (it produced a *lot* of heat), so they made them into a comfy sitting group around the actual machine. Upon ordering a Cray MPX for at least $4Mil, one could negotiate the pattern or colors on the cushions for free. > I guess I > interpreted his motivations as purely socialistic (or, at > least, Hollywood's version of such). Hmmm... Hollywood's version of socialism is something I never put an eye on. However. Do we really need socialism here? I may be naive, but what are the chances of Cosmo having larned about socialistic ideology or him developing the ideas himself? He is depicted as a bright '68 generation type with a broad insight of 'how life works' after all. I may be wrong here, upon second thought. Yeah, what is Cosmo's motivation? hmmm... Hollywood _loves_ two characters: the crazy hippie (as a discriminized element) and the crazy scientist (that is not taken seriously). There could be so much more to tell about such characters, but I guess that differentiated views about 'other ideas' are not allowed in Hollywood. And I deem that there are a lot of phobias mixed in there. (->cold war syndrome, McCarthyism, etc.) Daniel Pisano Darmstadt Tech, Germany