THE BUZZ.Byline: - Daily News Wire Services Controversial Mengele project: In a move that could provoke outrage, a prominent German film production company has greenlighted a film that effectively gives ``The Angel of Auschwitz,'' the killer doctor Josef Mengele Josef Mengele (March 16 1911– February 7, 1979), was a German SS officer and a physician in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. He gained notoriety chiefly for being one of the SS physicians who supervised the selection of arriving transports of prisoners, , a chance to tell his side of the story, it was announced at Cannes. Helkon Media is set to produce the $4.5 million ``After the Truth,'' a German-language courtroom drama that tells the fictitious tale of Mengele popping up in the present time, after being thought dead, and demanding the opportunity to prove his innocence in court. Though ``After the Truth'' has been in development for more than a year, the movie's story has been kept under wraps until now. It is based on an original script by U.S. screenwriters Kathleen and Chris Riley Chris J. Riley (born December 8, 1973) is an American golfer. Riley was born in San Diego, California. He attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he became the first four-year All-American in any sport. In 1995 he played for the United States in the Walker Cup. . The final script was adapted by Hannes Betz. Deneuve turns to `East-West': Catherine Deneuve Catherine Deneuve (French IPA: [ka'tʁin də'nœv]), (October 22, 1943, in Paris, France), is an Academy Award-nominated French actress. will play a French actress asked to rescue a couple stranded in 1950s Russia in ``East-West,'' a historic drama set to shoot this autumn with Regis Wargnier (``Une Femme femme adj. Slang Exhibiting stereotypical or exaggerated feminine traits. Used especially of lesbians and gay men. n. 1. Slang One who is femme. 2. Informal A woman or girl. Francaise'') directing. The $12 million film also stars Sandrine Bonnaire and Oleg Menshikov. Wargnier, who directed Deneuve earlier in ``Indochine,'' said her role as an actress on tour in Russia had been written for her ``line by line.'' Bancroft, Fox move to `Villa': Anne Bancroft, James Fox (``Remains of the Day'') and Derek Jacobi (``Little Dorrit'') have joined the cast of ``Up at the Villa Up at the Villa is a 1941 novella by William Somerset Maugham about a young widow caught between three men: her suitor, her one-night stand, and her confidant. A fast-paced story, Up at the Villa incorporates elements of the crime and suspense novel. .'' The film, which stars Kristin Scott Thomas Kristin Scott Thomas OBE (born 24 May 1960) is an Academy Award-nominated English actress. Biography Kristin Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall. Her father was a pilot for the Royal Navy and died in a flying accident in 1964, and she is the older sister of the and Sean Penn, starts shooting next month in Tuscany, Italy. Set in 1938 among the British and American expatriate community in Florence, ``Villa'' is the story of a proper English widow (Scott Thomas) who, in a moment of uncharacteristic sexuality, sets off a chain of events that will change her life forever. Philip Haas (``Angels & Insects'') will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote. Fisher leaves life of `Crime' for `Crawford': Frances Fisher (``Titanic'') will segue from her work in Clint Eastwood's ``True Crime'' into a starring role in the indie comedy ``Je m'appelle Crawford'' with Craig Ferguson, the British comic who's a regular on the ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. sitcom ``The Drew Carey Show.'' Fisher will play a powerful publicist in Los Angeles. Ferguson plays a confident hairdresser from Glasgow, Scotland, who thinks he has been invited to L.A. to compete in a hairdressing hairdressing, arranging of the hair for decorative, ceremonial, or symbolic reasons. Primitive men plastered their hair with clay and tied trophies and badges into it to represent their feats and qualities. contest. When he arrives with a documentary film crew and learns he has been invited only to observe, he sets out to win the championship anyway. |
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