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...wait a minute. World War II is now over 50 years past. Isn't it possible at last - without diminishing the indelible horror of Nazi Germany's war crimes - to imagine a degree of moral obtuseness among those who fought them? Isn't it also possible that such imagining can be triggered by a hugely enjoyable movie like Black Book - slickly made, sexually provocative, violently stirring, a movie that seems to be looking for nothing more than a good, melodramatic time but somehow transcends that, er, basic impulse. Human nature always includes its opposite, which is inhumanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fog of War Resistance | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...guff for her portrayal of insufferable showgirl Willie Scott in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. But the writers were also to blame. Far more appealing was Alison Doody's treacherous Elsa in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade--and, Holy Grail, she was a Nazi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 2, 2007 | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...most of Ferrell's characters seem designed to give audiences headaches--or a sexually transmitted disease. "I do really enjoy messing with people," says Ferrell of such politically incorrect roles as over-the-top sexists (Ron Burgundy, Chazz Reinhold in Wedding Crashers), fetishists (Big Earl in Starsky & Hutch), a Nazi (Franz Liebkind in The Producers) and an idiot version of Bob Woodward (Dick). "I wouldn't want anyone to feel uncomfortable with what I'm doing, but if that's a casualty of what's happening? Then I'm totally fine with that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Ferrell: Brilliant Idiot | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...directing their second play in two years, a production of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” in the Loeb Ex. Salas: Sophomore fall, we co-directed “The White Rose” by Lillian Garrett-Groag—about German youth in Nazi Germany—and we’ve been working together artistically since. Mead: We share a similar artistic vision. With directing, there can’t be two different directions, but we do have two different perspectives, and that’s helpful, because whatever Rob doesn?...

Author: By Kimberly B. Kargman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Robert D. Salas '08 & Winter Mead III '08 | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

Don’t worry if you miss any of those punch lines: the show is complete with a laugh-track to remind you that the Nazi and angry lesbian references are supposed to be funny...

Author: By Steven T. Cupps | Title: Half Political, Half Painful | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

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