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German director LENI RIEFENSTAHL next week celebrates her 100th birthday with the release of a new film about her underwater photography. In 1936, after she was commissioned by Adolf Hitler to make a film of the Winter Olympics, she was a TIME cover subject...
...PAUL McCARTNEY Sir Silly Lovesong is Britain's first pop billionaire. Just in time: Ringo needs an advance on royalties for his CD, Remember Me? STEPHEN HAWKING Physicist is serenaded by Marilyn Monroe look-alike at 60th birthday bash. Apologetic organizers say it was Princess Leia's night off LENI RIEFENSTAHL Creator of Nazi propaganda flick Triumph of the Will plans first release in 45 years. They just don't make totalitarians like they used to Losers ANNE ROBINSON Named "fashion's Weakest Link" by critic Mr. Blackwell and likened to "Harry Potter in drag." That's one brave fashion...
...Daldry (An Inspector Calls), yet he displays an awesome instinct for cinematic manipulation. He loads every image with emotive propaganda (this character noble, this one morally myopic) and lards it with music that cues you to weeping or cheering. Billy Elliot is about as open to unforced feeling as Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will...
...LENI RIEFENSTAHL has an almost Faustian knack for survival. The infamous German filmmaker, who directed the 1934 Nazi propagandist film Triumph of the Will, weathered World War II and the international ostracism that resulted from her association with the Third Reich. Now 97, she suffered relatively minor injuries last week when a helicopter in which she was riding crashed in the Sudan. She is being treated in Germany for a few broken ribs. Riefenstahl was in Africa to revisit the Nuba tribe, which she photographed during the 1970s, a project that drew criticism for its perceived objectification of tribe members...
...liked the abstract art, the 12-tone music, the absurdist theater, the austere furniture, the Manichaean bipolar geopolitics. And so, given my longing for an irretrievable past, I think insularity and exile are the ambient notes to strive for this year, as opposed to your mindless, self-annulling, Leni Riefenstahl-style euphoria. Here's my provisional itinerary...