Hollywood’s golden age has a Berlin accent. A field study in talent migration and manufactured amnesia.

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Land here with no nationality, no party, no church and no team, and the planet looks strange in useful ways: a species that mapped its own genome but cannot stop half its members hurting the other half at home. An extraterrestrial would not get angry about that. He would log notes. That is the method behind this site, and the reason opinion stays in one marked container while the files stay open.

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It looks as if what the show booth attractions with their magicians were back then has been perfected in Hollywood movies today and has taken over this tradition. So if Hollywood has perfected the show booth tradition, Babelsberg has perfected the swagger – light humour, harmless cheerfulness without problems, carefree cheerfulness.

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