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Baldwin the complex artist too of ten succumbs to Baldwin the propagandist and fantasist. When he calls America the Fourth Reich, he sounds as if fascism were a completed fact rather than a terrifying possibility. And when he speaks of "Martin" or "Malcolm," there is a touch of envy in his reverence. It is almost as if Baldwin would rather break the apron strings of his beautiful prose style and become a martyr himself. · R.Z.S...
...time, G. & W. has another smash, Love Story, that will bring in an additional $16 million this fiscal year. Other promising films are in the works: a sequel to The Godfather, The Great Gatsby with Ali MacGraw, and, improbable as it seems, Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich...
...Vienna, the city's church bells pealing for him. The next day Hitler was already able to fly back to Germany, looking down on Austrian hills from his plane window. "All that," he said with satisfaction, "is Germany now." But the Anschluss lived only as long as the Reich. The post war generation, Maass notes, possessed the "self-confidence to go it alone"-and despite Austria's perilous position between East and West, has done just that. · Mayo Mahs
...protective arms. Elsewhere, it would appear that the vicarious thrills provided by the cabaret entertainments were identical to the satisfaction some Germans took in the brutal performances of the Nazis. And there is also the intimation that the cabaret was merely the soporific decoy that permitted the Third Reich to rise unnoticed. On these matters, Fosse's editing serves only to confuse issues without ever bothering to define them...
...CABARET," Berlin on the crumbling brink of the Third Reich and Hitler's holocaust is the historical background York was to blend with his unfortunately recurrent role of the young, innocent, effete British student-scholar. "For background I read a book on the rise of Hitler. What I felt about my role? In 'Cabaret' I tried to preserve the sense of 'I am a Camera' you also find in Isherwood's Berlin Stories." York isn't bullshitting. either, when he cites Isherwood. He means that he has in fact read the stories. "In other words, I was involved in what...