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...funds through campaign committees to "crooks lugging baskets of dirty money to be washed through legitimate business." Frequently witty--"The ideal staff must be like the ideal hairpiece; effective but unobtrusive"--and often sarcastic--"Congress has sponsored a building boom inspired by the judgment and tasteful restraint of Albert Speer and Ramses II"--the authors detail such topics as "Who Owns Congress?" and "Lawmakers as Lawbreakers." The titillating anecdotes include not only tales of corporate and union investment in candidates with funds extracted by threats from workers, but also confessions from Senators who scan the gallery for exposed thighs...
...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 of a 26-installment BBC series on Hitler...
...Sellers movie involves a campaign by The Phantom -yes, the comic-strip hero-to extract the 90-year-old Hitler (played by Sellers) from the jungles of South America and bring him to justice. The climax: Adolf's appearance at London's Royal Albert Hall. The Speer bearers will be more sober. Sandy Lieberson, a partner in the British syndicate that owns screen rights to the book, says that while Hitler will figure in their movie, they will eschew a name actor for the role in order to avoid critical comparisons between their Hitler and that...
Complex Scenario. Ellsberg even contemplates the possibility that he is a war criminal similar to Albert Speer, the intelligent, cultivated humanist who was Hitler's architect. He recalls attending a seminar on war crimes and thinking "that I was the only person present who was a potential defendant." It is difficult to take this possibility seriously. Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon papers for what he feels is the good of the country; he may also have been trying to rid himself of what he sees as a damned spot. But his view is too schematic and bears the cold stamp...
...same 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...