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...subject, is the show's male protagonist. Paris and Venice fail to inspire him so he makes his way to Berlin, a city rich with parties and nightlife. There, he is naively introduced to the subculture of the Kit Kat Klub by a pleasant-seeming young German smuggler, Ernst Ludwig (David Kirach). Calmly watching the stageshow. Cliff is masterfully seduced by its star-performer Sally Bowles (Belle Linda Halpern). And while the first act only hints at the rising Nazi power, focusing on Cliff and Sally's ensuing love affair, the second reveals the unavoidable reality of the times...
...bought a 28-acre estate outside Mamaroneck, N.Y., to convert to his private studio. It was a tactical mistake. He got bogged down in logistics and financing-the producer's world in which he had no role. In 1927 Griffith returned to a changed Hollywood; Ernst Lubitsch had made The Marriage Circle, an ironic sex comedy, and the old sentimental, moralizing sagas about child-women suddenly seemed embarrassing antiques...
DIED. Jimmy Ernst, 63, noted painter of spiky, delicate abstractions and son of Surrealist Max Ernst; of a heart attack; in New York City. Born in Cologne, Germany, when his father was gaining fame as a founder of the Dada movement, Ernst grew up among artists and, at the outbreak of World War II, settled in the U.S. His technique linked color blocks with lines or grids but did not exclude specific subject matter. His final paintings, currently on view in New York City, ranged in inspiration from his mother's cell at Auschwitz, where she died...
...Ernst P. Kohlsaat...
...Brooks film not a Mel Brooks film? When he produces but does not direct, when he stars but does not write. And perhaps when he is more interested in paying tribute than in parody. To Be or Not to Be is a remarkably faithful adaptation of Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 comedy about a troupe of ungood actors asked to take parts in a real-life espionage plot set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Lubitsch was contrasting the egocentricity and generosity of show people with the boorishness of their oppressors, representatives of a politics that monstrously parodied their values...