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Unfortunately, they've chosen the wrong bar. A place as popular as the Heartbreak Hotel gets plenty of prank calls, bomb threats among them. So when a would-be terrorist (Daniel Von Bargen) calls to makes his demands, owner Jeff Burgess (Dan Welch) is nonchalant. "Sorry," he quips, "we don't take bomb threats over the phone...
Typical of the more questionable characters on the stage of the German resistance was Rhodes Scholar Adam von Trott zu Solz. Because of his vehement loyalty to Germany, many of Trott's English friends suspected him of being a Nazi...
Good biographies and histories should capture the life and times of their subjects with the compelling voice of fiction. Although details about the origins of Trott's Hessian family (Hermann von Trott "became steward to a Hessian prince in 1253") may add something to our understanding of Trott's view of himself as a German, MacDonogh has trouble relating them to Trott's place in history. And if they add no compelling understanding of Trott, why provide the reader with such details...
...sights and sounds of Wenders' year 2000 will stay will you long after you leave the theater, and the cast's performance, including cameo appearances by Max Von Sydow and Jeanne Moreau, is memorable. Until the End of the World is a long ride, but it's well worth the trip...
...News and Newsweek magazine have reported that Dershowitz--who has defended such high-profile clients as Klaus von Bulow and LeonaHelmsley--intends to represent Tyson in an appealof the conviction...