Word: wagnerism
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...popular Charlie's Angels series. Before the Los Angeles County district attorney were a series of memos and business letters in which a former ABC lawyer reportedly claims that ABC officials and a Hollywood production company participated in a scheme that deprived Screen Stars Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner of more than $500,000 to which the couple were entitled because of their 45% profit rights on Charlie's Angels. If the district attorney eventually brings a case, it will be the first major criminal fraud charge ever filed as a result of the kind of fee accounting...
...paid heed to Martin's questioning, conducted an internal investigation and found no evidence of wrongdoing. The network submitted its conclusions to the Los Angeles County district attorney. Spelling and Goldberg, in a joint statement, denied the fraud: "We are stunned and outraged by the allegations." Wagner, vacationing with his wife in France, said the news of the investigation was "a total surprise...
...sells sea shells down at Saks Fifth Avenue's store. But along with turning bits of coral and mollusk mantle into bangles that are called She Shells, Key Biscayne Divorcee Helga Wagner also fashions fascinating friendships. She was the first person Ted Kennedy telephoned after his Chappaquiddick accident (the Senator later said he was only seeking Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith's telephone number in Spain). Britain's Prince Charles commanded Helga's presence as dinner and disco partner during his early-April polo visit to Palm Beach, then invited her to the Bahamas. The fetching...
...Biblical significance for those that lived through The War and knew Nazi Germany; and for the younger generation, for whom the swastika and the "heil" are the lost trapping of a confusing, all too-recent past. Even Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's seven-hour nightmare, Our Hitler, with its pounding Wagner and Beethoven, acknowledges Oskar's drum. It beats in time to the modern German effort to recreate Hegel's sense of history, Goethe's sense of self, Nietzche's sense of strength and Gunter Grass' cheeky sense of post-modern myth--the eerie drumbeat of barbarism, mysticism, and boredom...
...order to understand this hellish confusion, Syberberg demands an intellectual involvement with Hegel, Schiller, Nietzsche, Wagner, as well as German history from Ludwig I. With this background, with the physical patience to sit through a seven-hour abstraction, one can understand the twists and evil that forged the Nazi ideology from German culture, but that understanding quickly fades back into confusion as Syberberg asks, "Was he [Hitler] too made in God's image?" Invariably, as the title implies, Adolph Hitler is related to everyone, and the most important effect of Our Hitler is the introspection it forces, the realization that...