Suspense/Thriller Like any normal former TV star with free time and a cause that s caught his eye, James Van Der Beek could have done a voiceover for a documentary about Taiwan s bloody struggle for independenceinstead, he plays an FBI agent in this educational thriller set in early-1980s Taiwan. After a Chicago prologue suggests that a Taiwanese-American professor and human-rights advocate may have been killed by gang members hired from across the Pacific, Jake Kelly (Van Der Beek) is dispatched to the embattled island for a look-see. Welcomed by fishy local officials and a flinty embassy liaison (Wendy Crewson), Jake starts applying his two investigative techniques: shouting FBI! while running full-tilt at uncomprehending local police, and getting pulled into doorways by underground resistors to the nationalist government. In impromptu history chats between the American and every other person he meets, carpetbagging anti-Communist Chiang Kai-shek is recalled as
Blood donation scheduled in New Bremen
Blood donation: 12-6 p.m., American Legion, 6458 state Route 66, New Bremen.
NEW BREMEN There will be a blood donation opportunity from noon to 6 p.m. Monday, May 24 at American Legion, 6458 state Route 66, New Bremen. -
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INDIANAPOLIS (May 10, 2021) The American Red Cross along with actor James Van Der
Beek and his wife, Kimberly, have joined together to urge all who are healthy to make this a