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Article: THE MOMENT A STAR IS DISCOVERED.(Marlene Dietrich, actress)(Brief Article)
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- February 1, 2000
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In a sardonic image in Guy Peellaert and Nik Cohn's phantasmagorical new book 20th-Century Dreams, the half-naked Madonna lies--with her eyes closed in ecstasy and with a hand trailing between her thighs--beside a graveyard bust of the elderly Marlene Dietrich. Dietrich is dead, the painting says, but she lives on in Madonna's feverish adoration and in her curled supplicant's body--so fleshily ripe it resembles Madonna's much less than that of Lola-Lola, the glorious Weimar slut Dietrich played in The Blue Angel (1930) and whom Dr. Siegfried Kracauer described in From Caligari to Hitler as "a new incarnation of sex [who] with her provocative legs and easy manner, showed ...