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...booty, the Cannon Group, which now includes some 20 employees and six titled executives, is looking at masses of scripts. "It's a mammoth job," says Dewey. "We have them read." Already scheduled, for production or for imminent release, are a film by Novelist Howard Fast called The Hessian, set during the American Revolution "but with contemporary overtones," an Israeli comedy called Lupo, which is intended to "scoop" Fiddler on the Roof, and a movie about demolition derbies called Jump...
with Frankfurt's Hessian Radio Orchestra
...manuscript, a letter in 1899 to a young Hessian named Ernst Schramm, stated that "All just people ... must refuse to become soldiers...
...Under no circumstance can we inflict violence on people, torture or kill them because we think such acts could be of use to us or to others," Tolstoy wrote. He delivered this advice to his young correspondent in the knowledge that the penalty for evading conscription into the Hessian army was death, even though it was a time of peace...
...Hessian post office forwarded Tolstoy's letter to Bavaria. The Atlantic concludes that Schramm decided not to join the army, but to flee the country instead...