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...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...
...press frenzy over his alleged indiscretions marked the second time in his career that Borer became the most high-profile of Switzerland's diplomats. For nearly three years he headed the task force that handled claims arising from Swiss banks' dealings with Nazi Germany during World War II. He prides himself on his "tough but fair" negotiating stance that won him the support of his countrymen for "standing up for Switzerland" as well as the commendation of several Jewish organizations...
...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...
...some party favors too, with the release of Impressions Under Water, her first film since 1954, and the publication of Africa (Taschen; 564 pages), a book of photos taken over the past four decades. Her new work looks at sea life and Sudanese tribesmen, not ruddy-cheeked Nazi youth or Olympic sprinters, but it's still of a piece with the old: stunning images of natural power, physical beauty and fluid movement. When asked what characterizes the work, she tells Time simply, "The aesthetics...
...racist novel The Turner Diaries, which imagines the violent overthrow of the Federal Government and was found among the possessions of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh; of cancer; in Hillsboro, W.Va. Alarmed by the civil rights movement, the ex-physics professor co-founded the National Alliance, the largest neo-Nazi group in the country...