Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby): In his youth he wrote a novel; now he’s a patriotic American who wants only to serve his country...if his country still has a place for him.

Played by Tom Conti

Jake Barnes (The Sun Also Rises): Expatriate, legendary journalist, he’s covered Europe for three decades. Once he thought of writing a novel, but never got beyond telling his story late at night to a sympathetic bartender.

Played by Alan Arkin

George/Christine Jorgensen (Sex Change Pioneer): She’s looked at life from both sides now, and she knows secrets of the heart...and secrets that can spell trouble.

Played by Ali McGraw

Margery Pyle Carraway (Nick & Jake): Nick’s estranged wife -- it was the little things that drove them apart.

Played by Joan Darling

Allen Dulles (CIA Director): As first Director of the fledgling CIA, he has ambitions to control the world...if he can control his own associates.

Played by Ambassador Joseph Wilson

Clare Boothe Luce (Playwright, journalist, ambassador to Italy): She had the kind of thinking Allen Dulles needed for the new Europe. But to Roy Cohn, she was more likely to be Arsenic and Old Luce.

Played by Valerie Plame Wilson

Lady Brett Ashley (The Sun Also Rises): An old girlfriend of Jake’s, she’s chosen the path of enlightenment, but she hasn’t lost her sense of entitlement.
 

Played by Kara Wilson

Jerry Wexler (Record Producer): Co-founder of Atlantic Records with Ahmet Ertegun, he had an ear for talent, and Ronnie Gilchrist was talent.

Played by Ted Flicker

US Senator Prescott Bush (R-CT) (Senator, Nazi Financier): The Presidency -- maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

Played by US Senator Tom Udall (D-NM)

Sen. Joseph McCarthy (Junior Senator from Wisconsin): He had the Commies crying Uncle Sam...until he took a shine to the army.

Played by Jonathan Richards

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