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...Greening of America, Charles Reich tried (and failed) to define this spiritual revolution: a mysticism of self-renewal that would save modern man from himself. In Where the Wasteland Ends, Theodore Roszak fails too, perhaps inevitably. But in the meantime he has brilliantly summed up once and for all the New Arcadian criticism of what he calls "postindustrial society." His book expresses almost as an act of autobiography the needs and demands he first began to detail in The Making of a Counter-Culture...
...Adolf Hitler's favorite actresses and directors, Leni got her biggest break when the Führer told her to make a movie of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The film that resulted was a propaganda classic, but her career as a movie producer in the Third Reich eventually led to two denazification trials (she was cleared). Now London's Sunday Times has hired her to put her 1936 experience to use photographing the XX Olympiad in Munich, and Leni plans no propaganda. "I have always loved the world and all races," she says. "I love the beauty...
...film The Producers, he played a zany impresario dedicated to staging a Broadway musical called Springtime for Hitler, a rococo recounting of the good old days in the Thousand Year Reich. Against all expectations, Mostel's musical was a smash -which turns out to have been prophetic. In the entertainment world nowadays, Hitler's springtime does indeed seem to have arrived...
...Hitler-The Last Ten Days, and Sir Alec Guinness, complete with toothbrush mustache and special black hair piece, is playing the Führer. A spoof on Hitler's return, starring Peter Sellers, goes into production next year. Also scheduled is a film based on Inside the Third Reich, the autobiography of Albert Speer, Hitler's chief architect. Then there are the Hitler books, at least eight published so far this year in the U.S. British television in recent months has unreeled three major reports on the Nazi era, and Carl Foreman is sketching in the details...
Woody Allen should have taken a shot at Inside the Third Reich. Or even The Naked Ape. Dr. David Reuben's well-scrubbed almanac of sexual aid and comfort only affords Woody another opportunity to turn mating rites into mayhem. It was an opportunity he ought to have passed...