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Paris was her last Olympic competition, although Aileen did return to the '28 Games in Amsterdam as one of the guides for Knute Rockne's overseas cruise for football coaches. Indeed, Aileen seems to have led many lives. She became one of America's first female sportswriters. She danced for Busby Berkeley in Roman Scandals. She skated in a Sonja Henie movie and performed in the first Aquacade for Billy Rose, husband of her friend and fellow mermaid, Eleanor Holm...
...tonic effect of Jon Blair's documentary Anne Frank Remembered is to restore the human scale to an immense atrocity. It chronicles the daily life of a family--the Frank family, hiding in Amsterdam from the Nazis--with a detail that never sensationalizes. It also gives a fresh perspective to the martyred teenager the world knows as Anne Frank...
...have read her famous diary, perhaps visited her Amsterdam shrine or seen the Hollywood film that lionized her. We think we know Anne's story. And we do. We know it from the inside, from Anne's mind, from the blossoming spirit and lively imagination that she poured into her diary. We know which members of her caged circle she loved (her father Otto) and which she hated (the dentist Fritz Pfeffer). We have this remarkable girl's X ray. But Anne was no solitary saint; she was surrounded by helpers and victims. Many of them are still alive, bearing...
...dark and gothic atmosphere pervades Boys for Pele. Surreal, almost disturbing at times, Amos continues in the vein of her previous albums. For example, "Marianne" is about a suicide, while "Little Amsterdam" depicts an interracial romance intertwined with murder...
...weeks before the Michelangelo and Shakespeare attributions, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, just two blocks north of the house in which the little Cupid stands, came to the end of its "Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt" exhibit. This show reflected the labors of the Rembrandt Research Project, an Amsterdam-based group of experts on Dutch painting that since 1968 has relentlessly whittled down the number of paintings once attributed to Rembrandt (more than 700) by roughly one-half. Galleries and museums that found their prized possessions devalued to forgeries or to works carried out by Rembrandt's assiduous apprentices...