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...solution came a year ago when the Post decided to create its "Style" section to cover fashion, features, fads and entertainment news. Von Hoffman's articles are defensively labeled "a commentary," but he boasts that "all the fine print in the world isn't going to save them." As things now stand, the Post is not in a saving mood. Von Hoffman adds zing to the paper and provides a point of view its readers would not ordinarily...
...phone rings at the Post. "Hey, man," says Von Hoffman gleefully. "The Today show just called and the Dick Cavett Show wants me. I'm getting famouser, and I can be just as cheap a celebrity as everyone else. Believe me, if I can do it, there isn't a kid in America who can't." And he laughs...
Died. Josef von Sternberg, 75, Austrian-born director of notable films in the '20s and '30s; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Flamboyant and volatile, Sternberg wanted no part of the then-standard Hollywood formula of saccharine pap; his works were starkly realistic, and as early as 1925, in The Salvation Hunters, he was experimenting with eroticism and the juxtaposition of light and shadow to create haunting shifts of mood. Perhaps his greatest coup was the discovery of a young unknown named Marlene Dietrich, whom he cast in 1930 in The Blue Angel and in six other well...
...half measures. In such films as The Leopard and Rocco and His Brothers, Visconti has inflated psychological conflict into perfervid librettos of passion, love, deceit, death and a kind of fermenting sexuality. But in The Damned he has outdone himself. The doomed figures of the title are the Von Essenbeck family, an informal assembly of back stabbers, thieves, perverts and murderers who can lay claim to being just about the rottenest clan since the Borgias...
...February night in 1933, the family gathers to pay birthday tribute to its patriarch, Baron Joachim, head of the vast Von Essenbeck steelworks on the Ruhr. Gathered around the birthday table are Martin, the Baron's deviate grandson (Helmut Berger), an off-again, on-again faggot with an occasional taste for whores and five-year-old girls; Martin's mother Sophie (Ingrid Thulin), a glacial blonde castrator, with her power-hungry lover (Dirk Bogarde); and assorted relatives who reveal such minor personality flaws as criminality, sadism, cowardice, and a timely penchant for Nazism...