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...unlike many other German filmmakers (including his wife Thea von Harbou) who stayed in the Reich and whose careers flourished under the Nazis.” Lang was dictatorial in his directorial style, and often subjected his actors and extras to intense conditions. This coupled with his thick German accent and austere manner made it easy for people to whisper about his fascistic tendencies. Lang always said that he wanted his films rather than his personal life to speak for him. His films clearly condemn authoritarian figures, and show what happens when individuals are forced to confront modern institutions...
...unlike many other German filmmakers (including his wife Thea von Harbou) who stayed in the Reich and whose careers flourished under the Nazis.” Lang was dictatorial in his directorial style, and often subjected his actors and extras to intense conditions. This coupled with his thick German accent and austere manner made it easy for people to whisper about his fascistic tendencies. Lang always said that he wanted his films rather than his personal life to speak for him. His films clearly condemn authoritarian figures, and show what happens when individuals are forced to confront modern institutions...
...behind her. A gaggle of Theatricals members sat between them, shoulders and backs turned, conspicuous and cold. Here and there the regular courtroom Joes muttered amongst themselves about what the big case was today, more than one cocking a brow at the well-coiffed collegiate crowd. A broad Boston accent noted “the Hahvahd kids charged with stealing ninety thousand bucks...
...though, Lindh has bathed and visited a barber. If he is planning to take the stand, he may also want to drop the faux-Middle East accent. "Oh, boy, I wouldn't let him testify with that," says Richard Uviller, a Columbia law professor. And "it may be that he's still militant, in which case he's not going to help himself...
MADONNA has already shown you don't need even a marginally convincing English accent to snag a British spouse, but it's usually assumed that to get your own tartan requires some pretty deep local roots. The Highlands of Scotland Tourist Board, however, seems to regard a lack of ancestry as a wee piffling obstacle. So grateful was it when Madge married director Guy Ritchie in a Scottish castle last winter that the board, as "a special thank-you," commissioned a new tartan, Romantic Scotland, in honor of the duo. "Madonna is the original Material Girl, so a length...