Word: henchman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About halfway through Holocaust, SS Henchman Erik Dorf returns home to spend a jolly Christmas singing carols with his wife and children. For Michael Moriarty, who plays Dorf, the scene was almost impossible to act. In the midst of the caroling, he bolted from the set, tears streaming down his face. "I found him sobbing, 'How can they do it? How can they do it?' " recalls Holocaust Producer Robert Berger. "The knowledge that thousands in Germany's Christian community were caroling while Jews were massacred was too much for him. He fell to pieces...
...they don't vote for him--as they do in overwhelming numbers. Long's popularity in his home state has survived his serious bout with alcoholism and a nasty divorce--both now over--as well as reports tying him to the crime empire of Carlos Marcello. One Louisiana mafia henchman admitted a few years ago to having carried money from Marcello to Long; others in the mob there take credit for using Marcello and Teamsters money to buy seven Senate votes to help elect Long Senate Whip in 1965. The Senator, it should also be noted, took a very active...
...cartoon millionaire-sadist in Terry Southern's The Magic Christian-a similarity that does no credit to Kosinski. But Levanter is not content merely to engineer or observe acts of humiliation. He is also an avenging angel. At an Alpine ski resort he blows up the vacationing henchman who tortures the subjects of a Middle East potentate. He devises an excruciating end for a New York hotel clerk who betrays visiting Eastern European guests to their native apparatchiks. This deed over, Levanter privately gloats because authorities cannot discover a plot linking killer and victim. As he does...
...comparatively unfamiliar face around the West Wing of the White House, then CIA director Richard Helms. The notes belong to Helms, and that one page and the memory of the seven-year-old meeting today hold an all too special significance for the one-time Nixon henchman...
...contrast, the Kremlin, which for years has portrayed Chou as Mao's anti-Soviet henchman, found no cause for mourning. Pravda noted Chou's death in a one-inch, six-line item near the bottom of page 5, beneath a routine story about the Common Market; the paper gave less space to Chou's death than it did to a Cabinet shuffle in Ecuador and a Burmese campaign against smuggling. The brevity of the announcements and the absence, at week's end, of official comment indicated that the Russians were proceeding with their customary caution. Like Washington, Moscow presumably expects...