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Although Ms. Werner responded to our questions in a drunken slur and from somewhere inside a thick cloud of Cuban cigar smoke, she revealed herself, contrary to legend, to be charming, polite and full of old-world insight...
Played out in public, her extravagant affairs -- with actors, musicians and athletes -- added to the legend. But her legacy is the voice. Penetrating, with a wide, natural vibrato, it had an urgency of emotion that touched everyone, from the misbegotten of the meanest quartier to the most refined boulevardiers. Jean Cocteau, who died within hours of Piaf, called her a genius: "There has never been another like her . . . and there never will be." He compared her to a nightingale, but the impresario who discovered Edith Giovanna Gassion at 19, singing on the corner of a Paris avenue, had bestowed...
...Hitler did not play such an important role in my life," she says today. "I made one film for him, which had three parts, and out of that the press wove a legend." Wove a horror story. A half-century after shooting her last feature, Riefenstahl is still the world's most controversial director; her name summons the conflicts of defiant artistry and compromised morality. Thus the U.S. publication of Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir (St. Martin's Press; $35) and the U.S. premiere of Ray Muller's documentary The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (at the New York Film...
Even someone as young and sports-ignorant as I am has a connection to the legend, and to the era he represents in our history...
Nowhere is there to be found a positive image of an Asian male apart from Bruce Lee, whose legend was recently revived with the film, "Dragon...