Golden Globes: A big night for the real Tony Mendez

The Washington Post

Tony Mendez, left, with John Goodman on stage at the Golden Globes. (Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

There he was, Tony Mendez, a spy standing next to John Goodman, the actor, in front of millions of people on international TV at Sunday night’s Golden Globes. They introduced a clip from “Argo,” the movie about Mendez’s daring rescue of diplomats in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis.