Word: nazis
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...teach the audience lessons: how to live more adventurously, love more expertly, blow things up more noisily. And every now and then, die more beautifully. This holiday season, mortality is much on the minds of ambitious filmmakers. Grim Death will be gargling in dramas about AIDS (Philadelphia), the Nazi Holocaust (Schindler's List), Vietnam (Heaven and Earth) and plain old age (Wrestling Ernest Hemingway). It's apt that the Cardiac Pack is led by My Life, for its writer-director is Bruce Joel Rubin, screenwriter for the postmortem love story Ghost and the death-throe fantasy Jacob's Ladder...
...sharp rebuke to University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr., a federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Ryan and other former government lawyers "acted with reckless disregard for the truth" in the prosecution of John Demjanjuk as the Nazi death camp guard Ivan the Terrible...
...Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals found that Ryan, the former director of the Justice Department's elite Nazi-hunting unit, the Office of Special Investigations, intentionally withheld evidence in the Demjanjuk case and is guilty of prosecutorial misconduct...
Last January, Ryan--then in the news for his former role as a Justice Department official involved with the prosecution of alleged Nazi war criminal Ivan Demjanjuk--refused to be photographed. So a Crimson photographer was dispatched to Holyoke Center to take a picture of Ryan and he did--just as Ryan emerged from the men's bathroom on the fourth floor...
...surfaces on the screen. In another misguided attempt to create unity, the American millionaire by whom Stevens is currently employed is conflated with another character, the American politician named Lewis. The congressman, played by Christopher Reeves, is endowed, in the film, with the role of sole crusader against the Nazis. The material in the book which suggests that his motives might be no less polluted than those of the other pro-Nazi characters, is deleted in the movie, and he is depicted truly as a superman...