TV Reviews (Check local listings for show times):
1. FOX TV: “24” climaxes tonight, Monday, 2 hours
2. PBS: “The Man Behind Hitler,” Monday, 90 min.
3. TCM: “Stardust: The Bette Davis Story,” Thursday, 90 min.
FOX’s mega hit “24” climaxes this evening, starting at 8 pm EDT
in a 2- hour exposé of the most duplicitous US President ever –
though Bill Clinton, crone & cronies came close in criminal capers.
“The Man Behind Hitler” tonight, Monday, 9 – 10:30 pm EDT
“American Experience,” on PBS focuses on Joseph Goebbels,
Hitler’s most faithful follower and the Nazis (National Socialists)
chief social engineer: Kristallnacht; the great book burning;
master manipulator of press, film, and radio; Jewish deportation,…
A devoted Nazi and diarist, he wrote that Christianity meant
nothing: “National Socialism is my religion.”
Kenneth Branagh convincingly chronicles, narrating Goebbels’
diaries with film footage -- some never previously broadcast.
As the government’s chief propagandist, Goebbels is everywhere,
delivering false promises: dramatic secret weapons, total war,
new victories, … Yet, his diaries revel he understood that
prematurely announcing victory of Russia was a mistake. In
December 1941 he wrote, “Our overly optimistic propaganda
is regarded with utter contempt.”
Ironically Goebbels’ total faith in the Fuhrer bares ominous parallels
to today’s Republican Party apologists, feckless rubber-stamping
Congressional spendthrifts, and other national socialists.
As egoism personified percolates through this post, fans of
“strong women standing up to strong men” may well appreciate
the first-rate Turner Classic Movies (TCM) “Stardust: The
Bette Davis Story” this Thursday at 11:30 am to 1 pm EDT.
Set your recorder for this documentary featuring the major role
model with a wide range of commentary, recognizing her decades
of accomplishments and influence – not all of it flattering. Ellen
Burstyn, Jane Fonda, and Gena Rowlands offer lively and
affectionate respect for Bette.
Personally, she qualifies as an Ayn Randian archetypal character
because of her powerful strength of will, as well demonstrated in
cinematic classics, i.e. “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex,”
“All About Eve,” “Deception,” “June Bride,” “Watch on the Rhine,” etc.
Bette Davis would have bested doe-eyed Patricia Neal in Ayn Rand’s
philosophic depiction of Frank Lloyd Wright in “The Fountainhead.”
What is your thinking of these engaging egoists?
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