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...those evil, stupid Germans. Star Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty) avoids both traps. His Hitler is a humorless paranoid whose anti-Jewish rants are laughed off by his comrades in the trenches of WW I. But after the war, he discovers his gift for rabble-rousing. He is an artist of grievance, and in bitter, between-the-wars Germany, that is enough to gain power--that, plus luck and savvy p.r. (which includes trimming his mustache so that his look will be memorable, as Lenin...
...group's nonfiction: dense Internet screeds against globalization, political corruption, corporate control of the media and other capitalist sins. As the Project's adherents grew into the thousands across Europe, they also perpetrated some attention-grabbing pranks. They sparked an international manhunt in 1995 after announcing that British artist Harry Kipper had disappeared while bicycling through Europe; Kipper turned out not to exist. Later that year they hijacked a Rome bus to hold a "rave" on board; 18 were arrested though most were later released. And they claimed responsibility for the 1999 theft of four religious statues from churches...
DIED. PETER STONE, 73, acclaimed writer of Broadway-musical books and screenplays for television and film, who was the first-ever artist to win a Tony (for 1997's Titanic, among others), an Emmy (for the 1960s drama The Defenders) and an Oscar (for the 1964 Cary Grant comedy Father Goose); of pulmonary fibrosis; in New York City...
...know why I built it. It was just something I had to do," says the aging artist, tel: (855-12) 686642, who has transformed his property in Siem Reap's Quartier Slokram into a kind of Khmer Field of Dreams. "My wife thinks I'm nuts, and so do the neighbors...
...built it in 1984, casting it in concrete at a scale of 2 cm to 1 m. "I know every nook and cranny of the (real) place," he says, and it's no idle boast. Dy, 66, was part of a team of artists that drew up complete architectural blueprints of Angkor Wat in 1969 for the Ecole Fran?aise d'Extr?me Orient research organization. Those blueprints are proudly displayed on a wall in his workshop, along with an award from Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk in recognition of his work as an artist. In a visitors' book, one tourist rates...