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DIRECTOR: Errol Morris OPENS: Dec. 29 in N.Y.C. and L.A.; wide...
...good you don't need a graduate degree, just a smart idea. To do harm you don't need bad intentions, just a plodding arrogance. Those truisms are at the heart of the latest documentary enthraller from artful Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, A Short History of Time). Fred Leuchter won renown for devising more "humane" electric chairs, gallows and gas chambers. Now considered an expert in all aspects of state torture, Leuchter was hired by Ernst Zundel, a prominent denier of the Holocaust, to use his expertise to determine if the Nazi concentration camps had in fact been...
...report on the Internet [THE STARR REPORT, Sept. 21]. It has placed dozens, possibly hundreds, of pages of salacious material on a communications medium it purports to be trying to protect from such obscene incursions. This is every bit as hypocritical as President Clinton is accused of being. ERROL REMINGTON Salt Lake City, Utah...
...York, where the art market continued to function even as fighting raged in Europe. One painting cited by the U.S. Treasury, Van Gogh's The Man Is at Sea, was apparently slipped out of France by a New York dealer who then sold it to Hollywood idol Errol Flynn for $48,000. "The paintings came to America because for more than 10 years during and after the war there was no place else to sell them," notes Willi Korte, a consultant on Holocaust losses to the Senate Banking Committee...
...Errol Morris' delightful nonfiction film, Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, is a testimony to the rest of our lives. A one-line summary of the film: it's about four guys who love their jobs. Five if you count Morris, who has built a unique career on his quirky metadocumentaries (Gates of Heaven, The Thin Blue Line, A Brief History of Time). He is just the filmmaker to find four kindred spirits, united only in their fascination with pursuits that have something to do with animals. They might be anyone with the genial obsession to get to the office...