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...Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir by Leni Riefenstahl. At 91, the former actress and filmmaker has a lot to remember. Her Late Romantic style won raves from Hitler and invitations to his mountain lair. She glorified the New Order with striking films about the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and the 1936 Olympic Games. Whether one regards her as indomitable or abominable, Riefenstahl has written a vivid memoir of intimacies in an amoral time...
...indeed, that happens, more or less on schedule, in Sam Mendes's Jarhead, which is based on Anthony Swofford's best-selling memoir of his service in the 1991 Gulf War. There is, however, this important difference between this film and its predecessors: these guys never get to fire a shot. They are all dressed up in stifling combat gear but they have no place to go, except over the next berm (or dune) where they find nothing but more emptiness, more sand, which, if you want to get all fancy and symbolic about it, matches the emptiness inside them...
...Utero,” The Luxury will do Oasis’ “Definitely Maybe,” and Velvet Morning will take on Radiohead’s “OK Computer.” 18+. The Middle East Upstairs. 8 p.m. (CEJ)Hyder Akbar. In his memoir, “Come Back to Afghanistan: A Californian Teenager’s Story,” Akbar tells about his experiences as a teen living in a suburb of San Francisco whose life changed drastically when his father became Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s top spokesman. Harvard...
Dumas, the author of “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America,” said it’s an Iranian tradition to spend countless hours telling stories...
...memoir, now in its 10th printing, has recently been translated into Persian. It is also one of the three finalists for the 2005 Thurber Prize for American Humor...