Adolf Hitler

NIMBYs and Hitler: Readers Respond

Ben Urwand's Book About Hollywood Execs Letting Hitler Off the Hook Is Interesting, But He Oversells It

It's not news that Hollywood waited too long to confront Nazi Germany. It fell to the Little Tramp, Charlie Chaplin, to fire the first major broadside in 1940 with his hilarious satire The Great Dictator. By that time Paris had already fallen, and two years had passed since Kristallnacht, when the w ... More >>

Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day Gets a Revival

A Late-Night Theater Battle Royale

It is about a quarter to midnight last Saturday, and it's the eve of World War II on stage at the Sacred Fools Theater. A young Fuhrer (writer/actor Donal Thoms-Capello) prances out and picks up the phone to call his man-crush, Henry Ford (Curt Bonnem), who is on the other line with FDR (Eric Gianco ... More >>

JC Penney 'Hitler Billboard' in Culver City Sparks Controversy

Updated at the bottom with the billboard taken down. First posted at 12:27 p.m. It's been a bad year so far for JC Penney. It had a CEO, Ron Johnson, who worked as a top executive at ultra-cool Apple, Inc. But he didn't get this kind of retail and proceeded to alienate the chain's customers by elim ... More >>

History in the Talking

Paul Koretz, L.A. City Councilman, Threatens to Punch Man Over Hitler Comment

Updated at the bottom: Ron Kaye captured video of the clash! First posted at 1:38 p.m. Tuesday. L.A. City Councilman Paul Koretz threatened to "clock" a man who said "heil, Hitler" to the council during a public comments period at City Hall today, according to The City Maven. The Westside city lea ... More >>

Food Will Win The War: Amazing Propaganda Video

It was a simpler time. A time of corn cobs hanging over the head of Adolf Hitler. Of flirty potatoes seducing us with Betty Boop eyelashes. Of obese blonde children meting out American superiority with their thunderous thighs. It was WWII, the golden era of propaganda, and no one did it better tha ... More >>

Captain America Review

Carmageddon Countdown: 405 Closure Gets Memed With 'Hitler Finds Out' Viral Video, Talking Bears, Sweet Tees

Even Hitler loves to hate L.A. traffic.​And the countdown to Carmageddon begins! There are many important repercussions of the 53-hour, 10-mile closure of the 405 we should discuss -- like how incredibly much it's going to suck, and how it's all a big waste anyway because carpool lanes don't ... More >>

SHE'S SPECIAL

The California International Theatre Festival

Purl's pearl in Calabasas

Hitler Upset at Theft of his Jackson Guitars before Upcoming Gig (or the Copyright Police Can't Stop a Meme!)

Hitler has a crucial upcoming heavy metal gig, but his beloved Jacksons have been stolen and a replacement Fender just won't do (get him a fucking Gibson, at least, for chrissake): One of the many videos the copyright police doesn't want you to watch.

Hitler Mounts Surprisingly Cogent Defense of Hitler Parody Videos

Yesterday we blogged about the push by the German distributor of Downfall to clear YouTube of the many Hitler parody videos making use of the same scene from that film. As I noted in that post, I love a meme as much as the next gal, but this one has long run it's course; if we need a shark jump mome ... More >>

Thank Fucking God: The DOWNFALL Meme may be near death

​A totally made-up, mostly internet-fueled holiday like 4/20 can only mean one thing: Hitler's gonna be mad. But before you upload your "Hitler finds out Himmler got stoned and let all Jews go free" Downfall mashup, consider this: Constantin Films, the German production company behind the Osca ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Mystery Plays, The Arsonists, There Is Truth, Love Is Real

Also, Richard & Felix: Twilight in Venice, The Drawer Boy and more

Movie Reviews: Amelia, Astro Boy, Saw VI

Also Cirque du Freak, Stan Helsing and more

Inglourious Basterds' Final Solution

In a triumph of his will, Tarantino makes Holocaust revisionism ridiculously fun

Valkyrie: The Man Who Nearly Killed Hitler

An interview with the movie's star and director, Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer

Should We Listen to Stuart Klawans' Call for a Moratorium on Holocaust Movies?

From Reverence to Rape: Plundering Meaning From the Holocaust

People. People Who Need Laughter...

What to do in L.A., May 16-22

Movie Reviews: First Sunday, Nanking, One Missed Call

Also Running With Arnold and The Pirates Who Won't Do Anything: A Veggietales Movie

The Invasion

Live pod casting

Leni Riefenstahl: Pretty as a Swastika

The sieve of time, or what Leni did

Author! Author!

The devil and Norman Mailer

Skid Row

Weekend Warriors

Fear and loathing set in among Republican foot soldiers

Thug Lives

Tsotsi and Sophie Scholl examine the moral quandaries of modern South Africa and Nazi Germany

Over-Produced

Mel Brooks drags his indestructible classic back to the screen

The Haunted Stage

A journey through Poland reveals ghosts of the past and hopes for the future

Halloween in August

Blind Spots, Indeed

Hitler, what a bastard . . . who knew?

The Spirit Survives

Teflon Terminator

Polls show Schwarzenneger gaining strength after Times’ hit piece

The Producers

Is there a bigger Broadway show in L.A. right now? No, but thanks for asking!

Last Laughs

How to fail in show business by really trying

You Vill Vatch!

Or, maybe you won’t: Hitler: The Rise of Evil

From Mediocre to Monster

John O’Keefe’s brilliant new play finds the pulse of our times

The Back Story

Sing Now, or Forever Hold Your Peace

Where are the new protest songs?

Kampf und Circumstance

The Führer’s girl Friday; Gilliam’s folly

Hitler Studies

Polanski's The Pianist and Meyjes' Max

The Back Story

A reading list

The Fate Family

Istvan Szabo’s 20th century

Big-Spender Mike

Antonovich invites the gun lobby in — at taxpayers’ expense

Our Hitler

Barry J. Hershey's The Empty Mirror

They Saved Hitler's Head

The Führer as model tyrant

Dance Kontrol

Let’s have sex on the beach. Or not.

Fatuous Fascism

Benigni and Singer give Holocaust lite

My Own Private Nuremberg

C.P. Taylor looks at the evil of banality