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Summer films: sequels, stars -- and maybe a sleeper smash; Marlene Dietrich: an appreciation of mystery undimmed...
...news conference in Berlin, Kohl felt impelled to deny that the governing coalition, shaken by the economy's troubles and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher's resignation, was in any danger. The opposition Social Democrats accused the government of "stupidity and provocation." They now top Kohl's Christian Democrats in the polls and are calling for the Chancellor's resignation. "The coalition is stable," Kohl insisted last week. (See related story on page...
...earthy. When she died alone at 90 last week in her tiny Paris apartment, the world did not exactly mourn her, most of it being too young to have powerful emotional connections with her. But it did pause to ponder, one last time, the enigma that was Marlene Dietrich...
...between a nightclub singer and a middle-aged high school teacher who becomes obsessed with her. The callousness of Lola-Lola's manipulations was memorable, but not more so than the soon-to-be-famous legs that walked all over her victim. Von Sternberg returned triumphantly to Hollywood, and Dietrich followed...
...used his Trilby less as a performer than as another element in his lush decor -- and an androgynous one at that. It suited him to dress her in white tie and tails (and to have her kiss a woman before she embraced Gary Cooper in Morocco). At first Dietrich fit into Hollywood's pantheon of sexual ambiguity somewhere between Greta Garbo and Mae West. Von Sternberg did nothing to soften her exotic sexual challenge or penetrate her masklike countenance, both of which were largely his creations. The studio finally separated them...