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Homer forms a bowling team but is forced to throw Otto, the burn-out bus driver, off the team in favor of Mr. Burns--who funded the team...
...film that lionized her. We think we know Anne's story. And we do. We know it from the inside, from Anne's mind, from the blossoming spirit and lively imagination that she poured into her diary. We know which members of her caged circle she loved (her father Otto) and which she hated (the dentist Fritz Pfeffer). We have this remarkable girl's X ray. But Anne was no solitary saint; she was surrounded by helpers and victims. Many of them are still alive, bearing witness without stooping to sentiment. This film is their story too. Anne Frank Remembered...
Anne is a vivid presence here, a child whose reckless brio offended some of the town's proper Jews. But we also get a fine image of the doting Otto, who underestimated Hitler's genocidal itch. He was not the only Jew to do so. A family friend, Hanneli Goslar, recalls that as late as 1940, her father would dress up as the Fuhrer and ring the Franks' doorbell for a shock and a giggle; he later died in the Bergen-Belsen death camp. Goslar and a dozen others weave the tapestry of their lives and Anne's, from...
...film's secret star is Miep Gies, a Gentile who worked for Otto's company. Today she looks like a stoic maiden aunt; kids at a family dinner would peg her as a stodge. But that is because Hollywood teaches us to look for shining ideals in a pretty face. Gies has the plain face of true-life heroism. Each day for two years she took food, magazines and news of the war to the Franks. She persuaded them to accept Pfeffer as a boarder. When the family was seized, she boldly confronted the Nazis. She also saved Anne...
...anxiously awaited medical test or to do battle with a creditor? "I don't condone the misuse of company telephones, but suppose you call home with a marital or a financial problem. Clearly, you are in jeopardy if your employer knows something about those kinds of things," says Nan Otto, a union chief whose organization represents Northwest Airlines telephone-reservation operators. "It's the George Orwell kind of thing...