Word: jacobi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early Nazi reception, Speer's wife (Blythe Danner) surveys the panoply and calls it "a dress rehearsal for disaster." It was no dress rehearsal; it was a superproduction of the real thing, and the main characters acted as if they were in their own movie. Hitler (Derek Jacobi) does malicious impersonations of Mussolini and Chamberlain; he sits raptly before a Busby Berkeley musical extravaganza; he watches himself at a filmed rally and mouths the Führer's words. He was both the big star and his biggest fan. And Speer (Rutger Hauer)-the young architect who became...
...many foreigners are learning that America's streets of gold can also be pitted with peril. Says Herbert Jacobi, a partner in West Germany's Berliner Handels und Frankfurter Bank: "Many Europeans do not realize that America is the land of economic Darwinism. Some of them are going to fall flat on their faces...
...hero, Senya (Derek Jacobi), is an everyman-nobody. He has no job, is supported by his wife and browbeaten by her mother. He decides to kill himself...
Senya does not keep his rendezvous with destiny, but Derek Jacobi does. Best known for the title role in the TV series I, Claudius, Jacobi makes his debut at Broadway's ANTA Theater a thumping virtuosic triumph. He is unfazed even by the giant Junglegym of a set. Toward the end of the play, Senya pleads with the faceless state: "Give us the right to whisper." This production usurps the right to drone...