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...most pressing issue facing Christian theologians is how to talk sense about God to a secular, science-minded, doubt-filled world. The drastic solution of the post-Christian followers of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is to say that the traditional idea of God is dead and turn to other concerns. Another way, favored by Biblical Scholar Rudolf Bultmann and his disciples, is to see the meaning of God in existential terms. But many U.S. Protestant theologians find it impossible to live without God or to preach him existentially, and the process theologians are trying another way based on the philosophies of Alfred...
...knows what she wants," sighed South African Impresario Peter Toerien. "And she knows she will get it." Fair exchange. For after signing a list of contractual demands that took 41 pages and nine months to accommodate, Sexagenarian Marlene Dietrich agreed to a two-week stand in Johannesburg, her first South African appearance. Among other whims, such as having every last speck of dust hand-whisked from the stage before curtain time, Marlene insisted on two separate dressing rooms: one to "relax" in, one to dress in, so to speak...
...early forays, Vamp Theda Bara anticipates the living bra by wearing what appears to be a giant tarantula. In Blonde Venus (1932), a gorilla lumbers through a chorus line, yanks off hirsute head and paws and clears its throat for a husky song. The gorilla is Marlene Dietrich, who puts on top hat and tails for another floor show in Morocco (1930), ends by kissing a lady customer...
...directors never die-they just become verbose. Take Josef von Sternberg, for example: today he is remembered only as the man who discovered Marlene Dietrich. Clearly there was nothing he could do but write a bitter book and generously distribute the blame...
...account of Dietrich and the Svengali-Trilby relationship that produced The Blue Angel, Shanghai Express and The Devil Is a Woman is pitiably bitter. While other stars complained of Sternberg's cruel direction, Marlene loyally praised the very hardships he put her through, as when he made her walk barefoot across the blazing desert while filming Morocco with Gary Cooper. But to Sternberg this was no more than a deliberate plot designed by Dietrich to gain public admiration for herself and to shower abuse on him. He recognizes some talent in her, chiefly an ability to follow direction...