A Crying Need for Morally Unblemished Actors

Ever alert to such matters, Der Spiegel reports that Britny Spears is scheduled to star in a holocaust sci-fi movie. No... your eyes are not tired.... a holocaust sci-fi movie, called The Yellow Star of Sophie and Eton.

Although the title has a certain, Saint-Exupéry-ish je ne sai quoi the plot is definitely Spielbergian. Perhaps mistaking it for the lastest West Hollywood fitness contraption, Sophie (played by Sears) bumps into a time machine and "travels back in time to fall in love with a Jewish concentration camp prisoner named Eton". Somehow the two manage to catapult back to the present. Alas instead of being deposited some place nice, like Sherman Oaks, Miami or Tel Aviv, the damn contraption dumps our time-flying lovebrids in some erstwhile East German urban slum where, betrayed by their Yellow Stars, they are set upon and done in by a wolf-pack of Neo-Nazis skin heads in Thor Steiner parkas.

"German Jews Horrified by Britney Holocaust Role"

According to Spiegel, "Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, has said she is horrified...." not, apparently, at a script which manages to be sacharine and inane at the same time, but at the choice of starlette. "It is reprehensible to combine the issue of the Holocaust with Britney Spears in an attempt to secure financing...." Knobloch is reported as saying.

One wonders.... is this like Wagner wanting Herman Levi to be baptized before conducting the premier of Parsifal?

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