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Grosz, the sardonic sadomasochism of Bertolt Brecht, the tinkling melancholic musical style of Kurt Weill, and the plumpish, thigh-bared, black-gartered allure of Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel. Add a living link to the period in Weill's widow, Actress Lotte Lenya, with her cynical eyes and big-city-scarred voice. Set this musical by committee in a chic-sleazy nightspot called the Kit Kat Klub, supply a rouged M.C. played with androgynous guile by Joel Grey, bring on hip-roiling, braless chorines with soft-boiled smiles and any kind of love for sale, orchestrate...
...grad ('27) who spent the rackety '30s as a public prosecutor, won convictions in 97.8% of his cases the first year, sent up Gangster Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, Communist Earl Browder and assorted dope pushers, counterfeiters and post-Prohibition bootleggers, even boarded the Normandie to confiscate Marlene Dietrich's jewels (as collateral against back income tax claims) before she sailed, and extracted fines from Jack Benny and George Burns for purchasing items that had been smuggled through customs; of cancer; in London...
Died. General Dietrich von Choltitz, 71, a stubby, impassive Junker who was known as the "smasher of cities" for leading blitzkriegs against Rotterdam and Sevastopol, became military chief of Paris in 1944, and was commanded by Hitler to repel the enemy or leave the city "a blackened field of ruins," but chose for the first time to disobey an order and secretly invited the Allies to enter Paris in order to save it, while Hitler angrily demanded, "Is Paris burn ing'?"-the words later made famous by the book and the movie, which will open in the U.S. this...
...three new labels, Seraphim ("Angels of the highest order") has the brightest roster of musicians, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Wilhelm Furtwängler. Philips' World Series has less prominent but still lustrous names (Clara Haskil, Marcel Dupré) and an equally broad selection of works. Epic's Crossroads, the only one of the trio with all recent, all truly stereophonic recordings, has culled its list from that of the Czechoslovak firm Supraphon and thus gives voice to the Czech Philharmonic, the Smetana Quartet, and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. Some jewels in new settings...
...Eisenstaedt could have seen Marlene Dietrich in 1928, two years before The Blue Angel, and won from her a smile that says it all? Or could have photographed Sophia Loren in Marriage-Italian Style, a picture that revealed her as the love goddess of her age, while remembering her as "the nicest and hardest-working movie actress I have ever met"? That the same eye should also have seen the brooding evil in Goebbels in 1933 and wisdom deep in the eyes of Edward Teller in 1963 testifies to Eisenstaedt's undimmed perception, which makes...