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Erich von Stroheim, once Hollywood's bullet-headed villain No. 1, was having great success in Paris, and not liking it at all. His ten-year-old La Grande Illusion, reissued, was the best-attended movie in town-and the most debated, because it showed Germans in a favorable light. From the Riviera, Von Stroheim cried out clearly, "Most inopportune," then rapidly became less & less clear. "I was a German cavalry officer," said he. "I loved horses, women, champagne and sport. French officers and officers of all other countries loved the same things. It is the bosses who wage...
With this "three-termed relation" as the villain of the piece, philosophy has been in trouble for nearly 300 years...
...people bombarded Congress with letters and telegrams; Ohio's Senator Robert A.Taft, the Republican strategist Harry Truman had labelled as the inflationary villain, averaged 1,000 wires and 2,500 letters a day, about evenly divided on keeping...
...Sergei Eisenstein, whose Ivan the Terrible, Part I got critical raves when released in Paris last March. Ivan, Part II, said Kultura i Zhizn, would not be released because it was "antihistorical and anti-artistic," actually dared to show Ivan "not as a progressive statesman, but as a maniacal villain raging in a circle of a gang of young madcaps...
...minute demonstration of diplomatic rompings and political perambulating. Groucho, as Rufus J. Firefly, premier of Freedonia, involves himself in an international embroglio from which not even a rapier-keen cigar can extricate him. His butt is Louis Calhern--since elevated to tonier company as "The Magnificent Yankee"--an embassy villain who early in the film loses his coattails, and his dignity, to the omni-present shears of Harpo, the foursome's fair-haired and superbly equipped delinquent...