Word: fuhrer
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DIED. GERDA CHRISTIAN, 83, Adolf Hitler's devoted secretary; in Dusseldorf, Germany. Christian was on hand at the Fuhrer's eleventh-hour wedding to Eva Braun and lunched with him before he committed suicide, but chose not to take the poison pills that Hitler reportedly gave her as a parting gift...
...idea of a dictator's being genetically duplicated is not new--not in pop culture, anyhow. In Ira Levin's 1976 book The Boys from Brazil a zealous ex-Nazi bred a generation of literal Hitler Youth--boys cloned from cells left behind by the Fuhrer. Woody Allen dealt with a similar premise a lot more playfully in his 1973 film Sleeper, in which a futuristic tyrant is killed by a bomb blast, leaving nothing behind but his nose--a nose that his followers hope to clone into a new leader. Even as the fiction of one decade becomes...
...Rudy Giuliani, used his New York Post newspaper to question Turner's sanity, and hired a blimp to fly over Turner's Braves during the World Series with the message, ted, play baseball, not monopoly. Turner, for his part, continually rants about Murdoch, once comparing him to "the late Fuhrer." A far better tack for the old sailing rivals might be to ignore each other. After all, that's what Fox Sports did to Turner in its Series coverage...
...youth successively, and quite engagingly, by Alex Rafalowicz, Noah Taylor and Geoffrey Rush) might have been a sweet-souled musical prodigy. But he had a brutal stage father (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a Jewish communist who was also a chronic German patriarch. "Music is your friend," says Papa in his Fuhrer-knows-best tone. "Everything else will let you down." David also has the classical pianist's romantic soul: part Liszt, part Liberace. Just as he embraces fame, he collapses into his mind's awful abyss...
...town's proper Jews. But we also get a fine image of the doting Otto, who underestimated Hitler's genocidal itch. He was not the only Jew to do so. A family friend, Hanneli Goslar, recalls that as late as 1940, her father would dress up as the Fuhrer and ring the Franks' doorbell for a shock and a giggle; he later died in the Bergen-Belsen death camp. Goslar and a dozen others weave the tapestry of their lives and Anne's, from the blithe prewar days to the horror of Bergen-Belsen. There, Anne and her sister...