Word: bunkerisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Guinness has worked hard on Hitlerian mannerisms: the walk, the deep, throaty voice, the oddly limp salute. He has studied newsreels, books and photographs, even interviewed a survivor of those last days in the bunker. At that time, says Guinness, "Hitler was almost senile; at the age of 56, he was 70. He took pep pills, and at times he would have fits. At other times he would get the giggles. I try to convey that comic side. You know, he could be extremely childlike as well as childish...
Guinness's script was written by Italian Screenwriter-Director Ennio de Concini, Maria Pia Fusco, and Austrian Producer Wolfgang Reinhardt, son of famed Director Max Reinhardt. In persuading Guinness to take the part, De Concini recalls, "I told him I saw the last days in the bunker like floating into nowhere in a first-class jumbo jet. You go into unreality, between life and death-der Führer crying, Eva Braun dancing to Tea for Two, the Nazi empire falling into destruction. I wanted to film all this in the manner of an 8-mm. movie...
...Directions. ABC Cameraman Terence Khoo and Sam Kai Faye, Singaporeans and close friends, stumbled into withering fire from a North Vietnamese bunker. Sam was wounded and Khoo, though unhurt and technically finished with his Viet Nam hitch, elected to stay with his friend. Their decapitated bodies were found when the bunker was finally captured three days later...
Much of the battle for Quang Tri city is the boredom of fearful waiting: waiting for a 130-mm. shell to come crashing in, waiting for an airstrike to soften up a bunker position, waiting for new troops to arrive with more ammunition and supplies, waiting for headquarters to decide whether to attack or, well, to wait...
...light goes on, she gets up there and does her number. I guess I'm getting into her profession, so she's getting into mine." Liz Carpenter was philosophical. "If we'd waited until we all loved one another, we'd never have taken Bunker Hill...