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Nother Partofthe and Schizophrenic to Liveinonepart Thing Toattempt, of Theworldand World, Butthat's “It's Averyrisky What I'vedone” Try Todescribe 2017 O 42 HOLLYWOOD: Deep rooted religious beliefs NO SEX, seemingly going back to the Pilgrim Fathers' puritanism PLEASE! dominate a society which is entertained by violence no end on a daily basis. INTERNATIONAL Poorhouse Newsletter No42 April - September Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 2017 Glenrowan, 1956 “It's a very risky and schizophrenic thing to attempt, to live in one part of the world and try to describe another part of the world, but that's SIDNEY what I've done” NOLAN Rosa Mutabilis, 1945 2 wichita films HOLLYWOOD: NO SEX, Nicole Kidman & Tom Cruise in Eyes Wide Shut PLEASE! If it is true that American maximizing profit and reflecting current trends gladly added sex to its repertoire of violence. movies are reflecting No more heroes of the John Wayne type American society the US but stories about anti-heroes with plenty of sex and violence. Films like Butch Cassidy has yet another severe and the Sundance Kid with thinly veiled homosexuality, Basic Instinct, Body Heat problem: a lack of open and Fatal Attraction, to name but a few, sexuality and eroticism. exploit this newly found or fought for sexual How is it possible that utmost violence freedom. But when Reagan and Bush came dominates the media while a mere breast to power the public attitude to sex changed shown at Super Bowl XXXVIII in February drastically. Deep rooted prudery surfaced and 2004 by singer Janet Jackson, intentionally every attempt was made to re-install white or not, provokes a boycott by her fans and middle-class morality and the American hero. the music industry. Or a president is helped Films made during the Reagan Administration Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct into the White House by the Mob and gets re-elected while another one, having an affair the country like no other modern society on with an intern, is impeached against? Clara the planet. And as Clara and Julia Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg looked at the free for are demonstrating, the American film industry all period before the Hayes Code in their does reflect these changes in behaviour documentary Hollywood Censored. Now correctly. Carefully selected film clips, ranging they are investigating what happened after from Basic Instinct to Sex in the City and the demise of that very code in the 1960s Midnight Cowboy to The Last Tango in Paris coinciding with the upheaval of American Blue Velvet will underpin a narration woven together from society through the rebellion of young interviews of those who are in the forefront America against their elders. The Flower Power of sexual liberation or over-viewing the media: generation decreed it would “make love, not British director Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction, 9½ Weeks, Lolita, Flashdance), Linda Williams war”. Hollywood always on the outlook for Isabella Rossellini in (Professor of Film Studies at UCLA and include Rambo and Top Gun. The new spirit author of Screening Sex), Craig Detweiller could not have been better illustrated than (Professor of Communication at Pepperdine by a quip of Ronald Reagan when Governor University) and Michelle Ashford (Showrunner, of California, made about the flower power screenwriter and creator of the TV series generation: “These guys look like they can't Masters of Sex). Needless to say that relevant make either or both”, referring to the slogan TV series like Mad Men, Californication, “make love, not war”. Sexual freedom was more Masters of Sex and Sex in the City will also or less abolished in Hollywood movies again, feature. where now the old angst about nudity prevails while television, in particular pay channels, cash directed by Clara & Julia Kuperberg in on the newly found freedom. Deep rooted religious beliefs seemingly going back to the produced by Wichita Films Pilgrim Fathers' puritanism dominate a society running time 58' Shot in HD which is entertained by violence no end on Jon Voight & Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy a daily basis. LGBT and Abortion Laws divide Newsletter No42 April - September 2017 Adolf Hitler Street was once a place Nazi supporters saluted during the second in the sleepy village of Yaphank annual German Day celebration at Camp Siegfried 3 In the 1930s Nazis took root on Long Island Several hundred German Americans snap into the Nazi salute in Yaphank "Lucky" LucianoHOLLYWOOD1939 American Nazis held a massive rally in Madison Square Garden SPiES HOLLYWOOD: NO SEX, PLEASE! Marlene Dietrich During the 1930s Confessions of a Nazi Spy against German while Samuel Goldwyn, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., threats to boycott their films in Germany, the Alexander Korda, Walter Wanger and Korda anti-Semitism was biggest market for US movies. Productions in London teamed up to chase rampant not only in Writer, actor and bon vivant Noel Coward Nazis amongst their peers. acted as liaison for the British MI6 and enlisted There is no doubt that Hollywood, always Germany but also in Cary Grant to spy on Errol Flynn who shaping public opinion, was also instrumental in America. apparently had Nazi leanings. Grant was also changing the public's mind to join the UK in its asked to spy on actress Barbara Hutton who battle with Hitler. There was a German American Bund and had had a German husband. Grant did not While Josephine Baker worked with the pro-Nazi rallies even filled Madison Square only play his role in Hitchcock's Notorious French Resistance John Ford spied for the US Gardens. As there was no television, the only but also in real life, and then married Barbara Navy and produced propaganda films and way most people got their information was Hutton. They both had friends without Sterling Hayden went on foreign missions. by going to the cinema where the newsreels knowing that they were pro-Nazi. Grant even Others used their contacts to gather useful were played at the beginning of a film and donated his fees for Arsenic and Old Lace to information for the OSS. Even gangster “Lucky” in the break. Spymasters throughout the the war efforts. Luciano was engaged for counter-espionage 20th century, and particularly during times Greta Garbo was widely accused for at the docks where German spies apparently of conflict, thought it advantageous to enlist not engaging herself. Only today we know informed their navy about ship movements the services of celebrities who had high level that she worked for MI6 and spied on and later helped General Patton during the and powerful “fans” in various industries, Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren who Sicilian landing. many with easy access to politicians and high supposedly was a friend of Hermann Goering. Filmclips from Mata Hari, Ninotchka, ranking government officials. Hollywood, as She also pleaded with Gustav V of Sweden to Two Faced Woman, A Foreign Affair, Man we now know from declassified National grant an audience to scientist Nils Bohr with Power, Hollywood Parade, Gunga Din, Archive documents, aided in the mobilization the result that Sweden granted asylum to 8000 Notorious, North by Northwest and of for war and its people contributed as spies, Danish Jews. She was also instrumental to course Confessions of a Nazi Spy give us combatants, propagandists, documentary and move Bohr in 1943 from Denmark to England an impression of how intelligence services newsreel makers, educators, fund-raisers, and later publicly admitted that she would operated while Graig Dettweiler, film historian, entertainers, commentators and morale- have loved to kill Hitler. Deborah Plisko, author of Celebrity Spies, boosters. Hundreds of celebrities eagerly The same is true of Marlene Dietrich, Jonna Mendez, former CIA officer, and Tony answered the “call to arms” and brought who entertained American troops at the Maietta, film critic, provide us with the facts. their talents and patriotism to the intelligence front taking great personal risks. Nevertheless services, military and war information offices. In she was trailed and her mail opened as the directed by Clara & Julia Kuperberg the wake of Pearl Harbour President Franklin intelligence services did not trust her. produced by Roosevelt by executive order formed in June Wichita Films Hedy Lamarr aka Eva Maria Kiesler was 1942 the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), running time 52' Shot in HD married between 1933 and 1937 to Austrian the forerunner of today's Central Intelligence arms manufacturer Friedrich Mandl. When she Agency (CIA). But already in 1940 the British fled to America she brought with her technical Government had sent Sir William Stephenson, knowledge she had gleaned from dinner code name “Intrepid” and for many the model conversations with German generals. She even for James Bond, to New York to run the British patented a frequency hopping device (spread Security Coordination Office and push the US spectrum) which she made available to the US to war with the Axis powers by undermining army and which is still in use today. the US isolationist movement. Only the Screenwriters Donald Stewart and Warner brothers had very early sensed the Dorothy Parker formed the Hollywood Anti- Nazi danger and released already in 1939 Nazi League with support from Jack Warner Julia Child April - September 2017 Newsletter No42 4 stellar image tv CALL ME JOSEPHiNE of colour in America - even as a performer, she had been told to enter venues through the back door. This would not be forgotten by Josephine as she now took on the cause of not a barrier, as it had been back in America. civil rights and was the only woman to speak She broke part of that barrier by becoming at Martin Luther King’s March on Washington. the first African-American female to star in a When MLK was assassinated, Coretta, his major motion picture, Zouzou and again when widow, came to Josephine and begged There are approximately she refused to perform if a venue had any her to take on the leadership.
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