Word: dummkopf
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...played the klunk as Colonel Klink, the inept P.O.W. camp commander in TV's forever rerunning Hogan's Heroes. Away from reel life, Werner Klemperer is anything but a Dummkopf. This week at New York City's Metropolitan Opera, Klemperer is definitely out of Luftwaffe uniform and appears in turban and robe as Turkish Pasha Selim, a nonsinging role in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio. The role is not a one-shot stop from the stalag for Klemperer. The son of famed Conductor Otto Klemperer, he has also narrated Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder...
...Alias Dummkopf. In Hannover, West Germany, while on watch for Robbery Suspect Gerhard Kuschel, police arrested one Roy Oerl for trying to sleep in someone else's parked car, decided to let him go if he would sign a statement that he had not intended to steal the car, whisked him away when he dashed off the signature: "Gerhard Kuschel...
...this sort of defense, any Hitler youth, any old garrison service corpsman, any dummkopf may be able to stand in a concrete pillbox and press a trigger, till he is killed. But to make the West Wall effective, 30 to 45 divisions are needed, and a good proportion of them must be first-rate troops for counterattacking...
...sense of humor. He loved good food and the best wines, and our luncheons rarely took less than three hours. . . ." Thyssen told some juicy tales of the private lives of Nazi bigshots, but when he remembered how they had hoodwinked him, he would pound his head and mutter, "Ein Dummkopf war ich!" ("What a dumbhead...
...Stock Exchange bar. the New York cafe.) Smart Girl was previewed six times before its official Hollywood unveiling in an effort to decide whether Pinky Tomlin ought to sing or not. Finally his song was removed but his jackass laughter and owlish solemnity as the milliner's Dummkopf of a son were left in with happy results. He is in real life an Oklahoma crooner who arrived in Hollywood five months ago with $100 in his pocket, half of which he gave to the orchestra leader in the Biltmore Bowl to let him sing his song. The Object...