In the Coen brothers film Burn After Reading (2008), a distraught Frances McDormand pleads with a reluctant Russian Embassy functionary to buy a disk containing the memoirs of a CIA analyst.
He had been fired for heavy drinking and McDormand’s character was desperate seeking cosmetic surgery, hence
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