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...beginning of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Professor Richard Hunt, who teaches a Core course called "Culture and Society in Weimar and Nazi Germany," delivers a short lecture on Brecht, while a rogues gallery of Nazi thugs, whom Brecht's parable has transformed into Chicago gangsters, listens in bemusement. "It is a very serious play. It is also a very funny play," Hunt says of Ui itself. Then one of the gangsters motions Hunt offstage and shoots...
...Hunt says, Ui is both serious and funny. And as his sudden demise suggests, it is not subtle. Almost all the characters are none-too-thinly veiled portraits of real figures in the Nazi hierarchy. Hitler becomes Arturo Ui (Chad Raphael), Ernst Roehm becomes Ernesto Roma (Jeff Alexander), Hermann Goering becomes Emanuele Giri (David Schrag) and Joseph Goebbels becomes Giuseppi Givola (Anthony Korotko Hatch...
...Mood, a movie distinct from other movies but nonetheless worthless, takes place in 1944 and tells the story of Ellsworth "Sonny" Wisecarver, a youth who was too young to be kicking Nazi butt during that gloriously simple timne, so did the next best thing: ran away with an older woman. Two, in fact--one played by Beverly D'Angelo and the other by Talia Balsam...
...advocating such policies as the repatriation of recent immigrants from North Africa and the virtual imprisonment of AIDS victims in special hospitals. But none of those positions has drawn as much opposition as one he took last week. Appearing on a radio panel show, Le Pen was asked about Nazi extermination chambers in the Holocaust. "The gas chambers," he replied, "are a detail in the history of World...
They are probably the most extensive and carefully documented files on Nazi war crimes in existence. Yet for decades the 40,000 dossiers, compiled by the 17-country War Crimes Commission at the end of World War II, have been gathering dust on the eighth floor of a United Nations office building in New York City. Next week Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar will decide whether researchers and historians will be given access to the confidential records, which were "discovered" by Israeli officials last year. The documents sparked the controversy over the alleged participation in Nazi war crimes of Kurt...