Word: hitleritis
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...hands of a flying throw rug. There's the haunted house, its owner, her daughter (Dee Wallace-Stone), and her lover. There's the "real character" of an weird FBI agent (Jeffrey Combs) who, while getting to the bottom of this, has his hair slicked in a horrendous Hitler part. There's Heav'n and Hell, an aspiring serial killer, and a title worthy of some Clive Barker paperback...
...greatest track athlete of all time, of course, was Jesse Owens. The son of Alabama sharecroppers, Owens said his secret was, "I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible." In Berlin in '36 he began his assault on Hitler's Aryan-superiority theory with his victory in the 100, the first of his four gold medals. African Americans would in fact win all but three Olympic 100s from 1932 to 1968. The blessing of modern professionalism is that runners can keep running; Owens had to resort to racing thoroughbreds in exhibitions...
Despite the pyrotechnics, the characters emerge fairly intact, avoiding that corrugated card-board feel. The President, as played by Pullman inspiringly develops from Mr. Smith into J.F.K. Will Smith, as Captain Hitler, brings out the comic potential of fighter-pilot bravado when confronted by a threat so ludicrously daunting as a space invasion. And, exercising the techno-babble he learned in "Jurassic Park," Jeff Goldblum staves off the humorous bickering of his worrying father (Judd Hirsch) to save the world with the scientist's explain-it-all manner...
...reveals him as an impishly sadistic fellow--he is seen lifting an actress' skirt while she tries to rehearse. But Hitch could make movies; Hollywood saw that. He went to the U.S., as had Lubitsch, Lang, Sjostrom, Stiller (and his young star Greta Garbo). Some were chased there by Hitler. European cinema was nearly stripped clean...
Wilfrid Sheed does a disservice to objectivity in discussing the celebrity of Dr. Jack Kevorkian [ESSAY, June 3]. The right-to-die movement in America today aims to end suffering at the request of the sufferer, and to compare it with Hitler's euthanasia ignores the obvious difference: "at the request of the sufferer." If the person suffering is able to think and communicate his or her wishes, that is a different scenario from the issue relating to Hitler in war. DAN CARLSON Pennsville, New Jersey Via E-mail...