Word: baron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baron von Sepper, a World War I Austrian flying ace and an enthusiastic fascist, Burton feels a lugubrious vocation to dispatch a series of wives-Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Nathalie Delon and several other international cupcakes. "They were all monsters," he explains. "They only looked human when they were dead." His eighth frau is an American, Joey Heatherton, who comes on like a refugee from a Tijuana specialty act. With good, home-grown American intuition, Joey discovers that the baron's problems are rooted in impotence and a rather baroque affection for his departed mother. The baron rewards this...
Doggedly pursuing Von Sepper throughout his adventures is a young Jewish musician whose home and family were destroyed in a pogrom that the baron had initiated. Such an attempt at redeeming social significance is simply offensive, not only for its clumsiness and opportunism but because it uses the beginnings of genocide as the punch line in a campy dirty joke...
...title protests a bit too much, implying that after the flood of words already published about the famous fabricated "autobiography" of Howard Hughes, only Clifford Irving, the famous fabricator, can tell the true story. To believe the confessions of Clifford Irving is a little like believing the confessions of Baron Munchausen; yet he tells his tale with a certain bravado. And one may satisfy a morbid interest by watching a man who could write his way into so much trouble (a prison sentence of 2½ years and debts of about $1 million) trying to write his way out again...
...Died. Baron Magnus von Braun, 94, former German official and father of Rocketman Wernher von Braun; in Oberaudorf, West Germany. The descendant of Prussian nobility whose genealogy reaches back to the 13th century, the baron served as press spokesman for both Kaiser Wilhelm II and the revolving-door governments of the early Weimar Republic. In 1932 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture by Chancellor Franz von Papen but retired from public life the following year when Hitler came to power...
When Chama roughs up one of his hired hands, Clint signs on to guide a party of vigilantes to Chama's lair. The vigilante leader is a lowdown land baron (the redoubtable Robert Duvall) whose holdings are threatened by Chama. "We can cut your ears off," the land baron warns Chama partisans. "We can cut something else...