Word: nazis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be, were this not the season in which the world of American entertainment became fascinated with Buddhism. Neither Seven Years nor Kundun is overtly about the faith. The first recounts the story of Pitt's character, Heinrich Harrer, a superstar mountain climber and Nazi poster boy who is humanized while tutoring the preteen Dalai Lama in Tibet in the 1940s and '50s. The second tells the remarkable tale of the Dalai Lama more or less through his own eyes, from his recognition as reincarnated Buddha of compassion at age two until his escape to India at 24. Each film...
Pitt brushes off the controversy about Harrer's recently discovered SS past and the resulting news stories that suggested Pitt and director Jean-Jacques Annaud were making some kind of glam hero out of a Nazi scuzzbag. "That's a slant people took before they knew all the information," Pitt complains. "You shouldn't speak until you know what you're talking about. That's why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I'm a f______ actor! They hand me a script...
BORDEAUX: A French court Friday freed accused Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon for the duration of his trial. The move, according to TIME Paris Bureau Chief Tom Sancton, makes it less likely that Papon will ever serve time. "Even if he?s convicted," says Sancton, "he?ll remain free through an appeal process that could take as long as two years." This would mean the ailing 87-year-old would not be imprisoned until he was 90 ? which may make authorities less inclined to jail...
Young also said in 1993 that former Harvard Police Chief Robert Tonis, while serving as an FBI agent in 1939, lost track of a suspected Nazi spy when he disappeared into the tunnels through a River House...
...Tell Goldhagen Award: to Mark Walker's "History of Science 129v: Nazi Physics," in which the 10,000 men of Harvard learn to be Hitler's Willing Electrocutioners...