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MILESTONES: Farewells to Edward Teller, Leni Riefenstahl, John Ritter and others...
...senior citizen leads a life as eventful as those of the women on The Golden Girls, it's Leni Riefenstahl. The director of aesthetically innovative Nazi propaganda films turned 100 last week, but she's still zippy enough to stir up controversy, most recently over who should play her in a movie about her life. A prominent name mentioned at one point was Jodie Foster, who was developing a now stalled project. Working on a competing film was director Paul Verhoeven, who reports that he communicated with Riefenstahl by mail and through the producer on the project. "The producer told...
...UNDER INVESTIGATION. LENI RIEFENSTAHL, 100, Adolf Hitler's favorite filmmaker and cinematic chronicler of Nazi Germany who later turned to underwater photography; for Holocaust denial; in Frankfurt. Riefenstahl, who celebrated her centennial last week, is being sued by a Gypsy organization for dismissing allegations that Gypsy slave laborers used as extras in her 1943 film Tiefland were later returned to concentration camps...
...film of last summer's Nurnberg Party Congress in which she directed 800,000 men. When Herr Hitler's crony, Air Minister Goring, married Cinemactress Riefenstahl's crony, Actress Emmy Sonnemann, last year, Hitler was best man. That Realmleader Hitler, a confirmed celibate, has any such intentions concerning Cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl no one suspects for a moment, but that he holds her in high esteem, entertains romantic admiration for her achievements and her character as a prime example of German womanhood, is apparent to everyone. --TIME...
Look at the world through Leni Riefenstahl's lens, and a high diver doesn't just dive. She flies. In one of the iconic images from her award-winning 1938 film Olympia, you see nothing but a glistening airborne figure silhouetted against sky. All else - diving board, ground, pool - disappears. It's classic Riefenstahl, a brilliant piece of editing, a fine example of a talent she has applied throughout her life and work...