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After earning a business degree at the University of Southern California, Davis worked at 20th Century Fox in Los Angeles. When his French girlfriend told him she wanted to return to Europe, Davis accompanied her, first to France, where they married, and then to Germany. Davis produced a documentary for Britain's BBC about three generations of Jewish families in Germany. It proved an emotional experience for Davis, whose mother was a Holocaust survivor. "My mother thought I was getting private reparations somehow, because everything of hers was lost," Davis recalls. "It was a real catharsis...
...hearing customers. But advocates say open-captioned screenings, which occur sporadically around the country, haven't drawn complaints. And viewers have grown used to captions on TVs at gyms and airports, advocates say, which may make the studios' case less persuasive to a jury. Several of the defendants, including 20th Century Fox and TIME's parent company, AOL Time Warner, declined to comment...
Robert Capa, the legendary Hungarian-born photojournalist who set the prevailing standard for war photographers, spoke seven languages - none very well. He didn't need to. For over 20 of the bloodiest years of the 20th century, Capa let his cameras do the talking. "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough," he famously declared. Getting close to Capa himself could also be a tricky business, though the challenge was usually surmounted by soldiers, poker players, bartenders, writers, artists and beautiful women. Nearly a half-century after Capa's untimely death while covering the French colonial...
...vogue for psychoanalysis was running high in those years, and Bernays acknowledges the seminal influence of her great-uncle Sigmund: "In many ways, the 20th century--and probably the 21st as well--is indebted to him for so many things, for the way we think about things." Yet she deplores the practices of many of his therapist followers. "They have you coming and going," she says. "If you say, I really was dreaming of a baby, then they say, No, if you dream of a baby, that means you want to write a book. If you want to write...
...Alsenborn, Germany. During Walter's 21-year career, the midfielder scored 33 international goals and 306 goals in the German football league. DIED. ROBERT WHITEHEAD, 86, stage producer who valued art over the box office and brought to Broadway plays by some of the most distinguished writers of the 20th century; in New York City. In a 60-year theater career, Whitehead mounted premier productions of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending (1957) and Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms (1952), along with the 1984 revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, which starred Dustin Hoffman and John...