Thriller film following years. Rob Reiner's "Misery" (1990), based on a book by Stephen King, featured Kathy Bates as an unbalanced fan who terrorizes an incapacitated author (James Caan) who is in her care. Other films include Curtis Hanson's "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" (1992) and "Unlawful Entry" (1992), starring Ray Liotta. Detectives/FBI agents hunting down a serial killer was another popular motif in the 1990s. A famous example is Jonathan Demme's Best Picture–winning crime thriller "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)—in which young FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) engages in a psychological conflict with a cannibalistic psychiatrist named Hannibal
Bassem Youssef (FBI agent) Bassem Youssef (FBI agent) Bassem Youssef (born Egypt) is a senior American FBI agent. He was the highest ranking American agent of Coptic descent employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as of 2009, as a Unit Chief in the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division. Prior to holding this position, Youssef coordinated the national counterterrorism investigation into the Islamic Group, the organization responsible for the first World Trade Center bombing. Youssef was born in Egypt in a Coptic Christian family. He speaks fluent Arabic (the highest ranking FBI official with this skill). In 1994, he earned the Intelligence Community’s prestigious and coveted