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Who's Online : 2Larry and Orson We Americans who strive for elegance are invariably cowed by our British lingual non-compatriots. The most beautiful British voice and delivery belong to Laurence Olivier. He is matched by our Orson. The most beautiful American voice and[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
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“Blackface” is not a slur. Entertainers who put on black paint were not putting African Americans down. In the Twenties and Thirties those who didn’t need paint stepped forward to do their own thing in spite of Jim Crow and[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
A Princess There was a beautiful princess who went to Hollywood and became the most elegant and attractive actress in the history of cinema. She acted well in every film she was in and each one was a box office[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
I Prefer Buster Charlie came first and then came Buster. Charlie pratfell and caused pratfalls, and he battered around with the heavies. Charlie had a mean streak but Buster was gentle. When the Looney Tunes cartoon characters came on the[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Zarah Dietrich stayed in the States. Goebbels tried to get her back, but is it was no go. She had a glorious career and was a foe of the Third Reich. Although Hollywood had beckoned, Zarah Leander didn’t get on[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Rocks and Rifle Bullets President Donald Trump: “They want to throw rocks at our military. Our military fights back. I told them to consider it a rifle.” (in other words, if a kid throws a rock, shoot him!) “Migrants” are[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
De box looks at vun fellow, and de box says “Yes, dot vun is for me!” It looks at annoder, and it says, “Nawww!” – Akim Tamiroff, as related by Orson Welles Dying young means being young for all eternity[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
True Words “ You know what I am? I’m a nationalist, OK? I’m a nationalist.” (Thank you Donald! At last a true word! Actually ten words. We’ve been waiting. But we have not been waiting in vain.) Lucky and[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
A Day in the Park There had been nothing, eventful in my life. Just school and then college. I had been an average student. Not bad to look at. Not that my looks were extraordinary. Of course there had been[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
FOX and Morality For some having moral values seems to mean playing dirty so you can impose the moral values you don’t happen to have on others. Questions: If you really believe in the Deity, why would you play dirty?[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Depicting It There are two things that cannot be depicted – a rose and sexual organs. A rose because it is too beautiful, and sexual organs because they are too ugly. It is the miasma of desire that makes them[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Up the Creek – A Rehash of Past Events For Prof. Reiner Lendl, “whose merits include the rediscovery of Austrian exile literature.” Herbert Kuhner, the writer, is in a sense a historian. His life story runs parallel to history and[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
It’s a Topsy-Turvy World “There are alternate facts.” – Kellyanne Conway, not Eric Blair alias George Orwell Truth isn’t always truth. It is somebody’s version of it.!” – Rudy Giuliani (What a lovely way to describe lies!) You’re entitled to[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Austrian Socialist Party Paragons Rudolf Gelbard Rudolf Gelbard is a walking encyclopedia of recent Austrian political history. He did not have a chance to study in his youth, due to internment in Theresienstadt Concentration[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
David B. Axelrod at Lhotzky’s Literaturbuffet The place to visit for the bookworm in Vienna is Lhotzky’s Literaturbuffet, Rotenstrengasse 2 at the corner of Taborstrasse in the 2nd district. Kurt Lhotzky offers a selection of German books, concentrating on political[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Naturkost Brunnader I live in Gentzgasse in the Eighteenth District in Vienna. The next intersection is the pedestrian zone of Kutschkergasse, where there are two restaurants, a café and an ice cream parlor. Great to sit there in sunny weather![…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Snitching on a Predator From Alan Dershowitz: Is Paterno Getting a Bum Rap?: (Joe) Paterno and I come from roughly the same generation. We grew up during the period of McCarthyism, and my parents taught me, as his parents may[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
A Princess There was a beautiful princess who went to Hollywood and became the most elegant and attractive actress in the history of cinema. She acted well in every film she was in and each one was a box office[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Brecht and Lenya In the famous photo of Brecht, you can almost smell the tattered stogie. He’s is a dead ringer for Groucho, but without the pasted-on brows and mustache – and the sly humor. Besides having an aversion to[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Marilyn and a Guy Called Joe When Laurence Olivier directed Marilyn in The Prince and the Showgirl, she and Paula Strasberg her “dramatic coach” made him wish he had never been born. And after completion of the film, Larry went[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
