Was Leni the Nazi Angelena?

The NYTIMES Sunday Book Review has a super-sexy
double header review of TWO new bio-books coming out simultaneously on Leni Riefenstahl. It will probably be on the web site on Sunday, but right now you can only get it on the TIMES Select page (la-dee-da me!).

One review is by a German Historian , another by a former US Movie Industry Exec.

"... Dolly back as two new biographies of Leni Riefenstahl appear virtually at once. Jürgen Trimborn’s book, well translated from the German by Edna McCown, has the better pictures. Steven Bach’s book, backed up by his deep personal experience as a high-echelon film executive handling dingbat directors, has the better text. Though neither book is precisely adulatory, put them together and they add up to an awful lot of attention. She might be dead, but she won’t lie down. "

The review also indicates that Leni was a big time star way before she was putting out Hitler's Hits. And she became politically active just as the Nazi's were gaining the Reichstag.

So, was she Der Furher's Angelina Jolie?

She was also wicked into Africa (she had a great book of stills she shot there out in the 1980's). And somehow, everybody still showed her lots of artistic respect DESPITE the fact she promoted the one of the most evil political concepts in human history.

Yeah, fascism sucks ... but what great fashion stylings!

Folks will forgive a great piece of ass anything, won't they?



Well, I'll get on the forgiveness bandwagon early and accept future mia culpas from BrAngelina if the global warming thang ain't for real.



As if.