If we're casting the inevitable movie to be made, I suggest that Jewel Staite would be a great choice to play Anna Chapman.
And I was already thinking ScarJo.
But I could be persuaded by either of your suggestions. Who else would make an excellent alleged spy/Internet whiz/Victoria's Secret doppelganger?
Wasn't it a bit reckless to be using facebook the way she did? If I were in Moscow spying on behalf of the US and I had a facebook profile full of CIA agents, wouldn't that just increase the suspicion if someone began to suspect me?
Her profile is still up. You can't suspect everyone that has some Russian friends. But how many of her "facebook friends" are Russian mafia, potential Russian intel people, and other dodgy characters? It seems like there might be a giveaway there.
From the people I spoke with this morning, the Russian community in New York is very tight-knit. I don't think it's odd that most of her friends would be Russian, especially since she did appear to grow up and go to school there.
And most of these friends seem like they're less "dodgy characters," more "established people in the business world."
But then again I guess CIA profiles wouldn't read "super spy" under their work information, either.
Side poll: What's the best spy movie out there? This has put me in the mood for espionage entertainment.
I actually got a medical degree for that part; I'm that method.
I seriously thought the guy at the beginning was Balki Bartokomous. But it wasn't. Sadness.
YouTube Only Live Twice.
Or...FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE.
"The Lives of Others."
Riveting. Though perhaps not quite the type of espionage movie you're looking for.
"The Online Lives of Others"?
So I guess she wasn't posting the intel for all of us Joe Blows to read.
There's a joke here somewhere about Facebook's privacy policies.
I shall make it:
Anna was clearly as flummoxed by the new privacy settings as the rest of us are, every week, all the time.
Wondered how long it would take before we got a Natasha reference...
If they were into virtual worlds, it could be "The Second Lives of Others".
W00t!
I was really hoping to get a Farmville pun in here somewhere, but I got nothing.
The world's first screenplay written entirely in Leet speak.
"Truthfully, think about how much weirder everyone would have thought she was if she didn't socially network at all."
I know what that's like... around the same time that started my job as a defense contractor and went through the background investigation for clearance, I decided to drop Facebook for completely unrelated reasons (drama...).
The investigator contacted a few of my old friends who then, after not seeing me in their friends lists anymore, jumped to the conclusion that I'm a spy and the CIA forced me to quit Facebook.
Now everyone thinks I'm a spy...
Just join up again and make all of your status updates things like "The mongoose runs at midnight."
Anna has contacts at The Farm, and enjoys playing Farmville on Facebook
Hmmmm.
It's long...but there's promise.
Totally. Who knew about all of the sub-sets? Legals, illegals, P2P connections at coffee shops...
Go forth and spend the week in search of a good pun.
The problem a lot of us have with eVite and similar sites is that it is really bad form to submit other people's email addresses to websites without their consent. I don't appreciate getting spam because people give my email address to eVite or auto-birthday reminder sites and such.
It definitely brings up questions of etiquette and boundaries online -- you might be fine with sharing certain information, but your friend might have different standards of privacy. Guess we all have to be guardians of each other's solitude/privacy.
Hahaha!
There was a young lady on Facebook
Whose photos were quite worth a look
When accused as a spy
She cried "oh no, not I"
The intel was just gobbedlygook.
Really, what more can I add to this?
We are so over the White House gate crashers for our reality television.
Now this is just pitiful, people. Pitiful pun here.
As someone who is a member of evite (voluntarily gave them my e-mail address), I've never gotten spam from them.
They shield your e-mail address from public view on the site unless you put it out there - so if your friend punches yours in, other people won't see the full thing.
Now auto-birthday reminder sites I can't speak for.
Just posting this -- I think I've gotten a few scattered updates from evite, but nothing so spammy it's been distracting.
I got the impression the OP was talking about third party contacts -- and that, I know nothing about.
The Fence Is Not Enough.
My guess is that most of the ogling was prompted by the full-body shots. We're talking below-the-neck evaluations.
I don't know. Do you think Anna Chapman watched The Snorks?
Incidentally, here's a list of the Top 100 spy films that someone came up with, just in case anyone wants to expand the punning from the five James Bond films that we all remember.
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/568349-100-greatest-spy-movies.html
"We're gonna turn it on! We're gonna give you the power!"
I loved that show when I graduated from Sesame Street.
They came out with a new, updated version last year. It was bad. They gave all the kids superpowers. Electric Company don't need superpowers.
Tailor, Twitter, Solider and Spy
Actually, that sounds more like a game you play right after Ring Around the Rosie.
The pun? Or the jacket? Because the jacket was awesome. Very Russian Michael Jackson.
Has passing on other people's contact information always been rude? What about phone numbers or snail mail addresses?
But then again, we used to all be in the phonebook, there for anyone's perusing.
I like this one! Feels snappy. Like it should be served with a margerita.
And, having effectively used up all of my possible responses to potential spy movie titles, my day is also complete.
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