Word: leni
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opening of the Fourth Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, all eyes were on Leni Riefenstahl, 28, an actress to whom Hitler awarded exclusive rights to film the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin as part of a propaganda epic: "That Realmleader Hitler...holds [Riefenstahl] in high esteem...is apparent to everyone...At Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week, much too occupied to engage in her customary practice of skiing up & down hill in a bathing suit to acquire a tan, she was even busier than usual, keeping an expert Nazi eye on winter sports for Fuhrer Hitler and giving visitors...
...into the mtv age; the megastar who, along with his wife Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson, will grant an audience to Diane Sawyer on this week's PrimeTime Live; the guy whose shameless promotional short for his new CD features him leading goose-stepping Soviet-bloc-style soldiers in a Leni Riefenstahl-like tribute to his own power and glory...
...writing about Oscar nominations for Best Documentary Feature Films [SHOW BUSINESS, Feb. 27], Richard Corliss listed several documentaries that the Academy did not nominate, including The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl. The fact is that this documentary was never even submitted to the Academy for consideration. Corliss further misstates that I was chairwoman of the Documentary nominating committee, implying that something other than merit was involved in the nomination of the documentary Maya Lin, which I co-produced. I am not the chair of the committee; it is headed by Walter Shenson. The fact that Maya Lin was awarded...
Here is another list: Roger & Me, The Thin Blue Line, A Brief History of Time, Visions of Light, 28 Up, It's All True, Paris Is Burning, The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl. These are among the most acclaimed documentaries of the past decade. And none was even nominated for an Oscar...
...feminist pioneer, or a woman of evil?" Muller's otherwise exhaustive film does not answer the question. But it does a brilliant job of illustrating the superb talent, the energetic drive and the moral ambiguity of Leni Riefenstahl...