Word: graumann
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...which he said he finds "profane." Many Germans appear to agree. In one poll conducted before its release, 56% said they disapproved of Germany making a comedy about the dictator, while only 30% said they thought it a good thing to do. "I come from a Holocaust family," Dieter Graumann, vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany said in one interview. "It makes me feel queasy if someone is making fun of Hitler and the Holocaust...
...much bigger hit than "Oz" when it opened on March 2, 1933, filling the two largest theaters in New York to capacity - the Roxy and Radio City Music Hall, with 10,000 seats between them - for 10 shows daily. In L.A. it broke box-office records at Sid Graumann's Chinese (where 13-year-old Ray Harryhausen saw it with his aunt). It was a hit in five rereleases as well, especially in 1952, when it helped to inspire the radiation-monster cycle that began a year later with "Beast From 20,000 Fathoms...
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