Comics legends have banded together to aid Holocaust-survivor and artist Dina Gottliebova Babbitt. She survived two years at Auschwitz by painting watercolors for the infamous Dr. Joseph Mangele. Some of her surviving artwork is located at he Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland. Babbitt has attempted to reclaim her rightful property since 2006, but the museum won’t give it back. Enter the comic gods who wrote, obviously, a comic to illustrate her plight. “I’m at a total loss,” Mrs. Babbitt wrote in an e-mail message. “I feel just as helpless as I did when I was at camp. Totally disempowered.”
Bryan Singer’s WW II thriller, Valkyrie has been something of a puzzle. Much like The Incredible Hulk, the movie has been simmering with bad buzz - twice having its release date moved. It’s now slated to come out in February 2009, after being posited as a 2008 summer blockbuster and then a Fall 2008 Awards contender. Now it’s nothing more than a Tom Cruise-starring vehicle.
Both director Bryan Singer and star Tom Cruise need a hit, or at least the illusion of a hit. If this thing ends up being a sleeper once the bad buzz dies down then who knows. Still, it looks like a fascinating slice of World War II history.
Official Plot Synopsis: The “July 20 Plot” on Hitler’s life is one of the most heroic but least known episodes of World War Two. Severely wounded in combat, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg returns from Africa to join the German Resistance and help create Operation Valkyrie, the complex plan that will allow a shadow government to replace Hitler’s once he is dead. But fate and circumstance conspire to thrust Stauffenberg from one of many in the plot to a double-edged central role. Not only must he lead the coup and seize control of his nation’s government… He must kill Hitler himself.
Not to get all spoilery . . . but um, he doesn’t kill Hitler.
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