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"Mark Lamarr looks at the life and mysterious death of American singer and actor Dean Reed. Often dubbed the Red Elvis or the Communist Johnny Cash, Dean was virtually unknown in the Western world but became one of the Soviet bloc's biggest stars. (...) Contributors to the programme include Victor Grossman (American defector and Dean's German translator), Will Roberts (American film-maker and director of American Rebel: The Dean Reed Story), Stefan Ernsting (author, Der Rote Elvis) and Phil Everly.

Presenter/Mark Lamarr, Producer/Bob McDowall"

20 people locked in a bookstore without a key. After endless nights of sitting around and talking about the situation, they discover a bunker in the basement run by the Dharma Initiative.

"Spoilers? Here's a spoiler... you will die alone."

Triumph the insult comic dog takes on Star Wars geeks waiting to see Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones.

starterupsteve has a really funny clip from "The Conan O'Brien Show". Don't miss it!

Tonight 9 p.m.: Episodes 13-16. Reserve your seats since the number of Lost-addicts is growing every week.

Meanwhile, Tom, Lost-junkie numero uno, has developed his own theory. It has something to do with hypnotism.

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Darius James is hosting a new radio show for radioeinszueins . Every wednesday at 6 p.m. The next guest-star after Boy from Brazil will be notorious Tom by the way.

I know I'm late, but the pictures of Darius James reading and Sister Chain & Brother John rocking the bookshop are on my computer at home and I'm still stuck in a bookshop and every 108 minutes I have to push the button etc...

They will be here over the weekend.

We also did a video of Darius reading which might appear online as well after the editing is done.

"Behind the scenes"-cellphone-pictures of the photo-session for the cd-cover.

We will join the Solmsstrassenfest this week! Have a look around the galeries and shops around the neighbourhood.

Program at the shop: 7:30 - Reading - Darius James (author of "Negrophobia", "That's Blaxploitation"; "Voodoo Stew",...)

9 p.m. Music - Sister Chain & Brother John

Salon: Looking for the best novel about Zimbabwe? Or just want to take a virtual trip to Martha's Vineyard? On this literary journey, everything is first-class.

Anthony Hopkins is working on an interesting Slipstream project as well!

The feature about cold war superstar Dean Reed will be aired on July the 11th and it will be hosted by Mark Lamarr who has just started a new show on Radio 2. The show will be available on the internet a week later and there will be a website for it which will include the first trailer for the documentary!

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boingboing.net: "Slipstream may use metafictional techniques to estrange us from consensus reality, they may rewrite history, they may mash up different styles or genres. But that's the point, as we see it. Slipstream has no rules, it has only results."

Scifi.com: Award-winning authors James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel team up as editors to define a genre that ... well ... isn't

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a movie by Niko von Glasow

Deutsche Version

Cologne-Ehrenfeld, 10th of November 1944. Fourteen people, among them eight teenagers, are openly hanged by the Gestapo. The youngest one of them is fourteen years old. The US-Army is only 70 miles away from the city, but the nazis are still mercyless against any kind of resistance. The "best people" of the Gestapo follow the trails of a teenage group called Edelweisspirates. They wear the alpine plant as a symbol on their jackets. The Edelweisspirates are an unorganized subculture active in all mayor cities of Nazi-Germany. By intuition they resist. They fight the Hitler Youth in the backyards of bombed out buildings and hide Jews and deserters. A small group from Cologne goes even further. With the help of Hans Steinbrück who has escaped from a concentation camp, they plan to blow up the Gestapo-headquarter. "Bomber Hans", as he is known among his friends in the criminal underworld, convinces the young people that they have to do more against the regime than hiding escapees like himself. The plan never happens. Bomber Hans and the Edelweisspirates get arrested and tortured before they are hanged in public to scare off other members of the resistance. The Edelweisspirates have not been recognized as members of the resistance by the german gouvernment until two different parties started researching the history of the Cologne chapter. Even though the state of Israel honoured them in 1972 already, they were still considered criminals beyond the end of the 20th century. Germany didn’t seem to question the files of the Gestapo.

Director Niko von Glasow and his wife have worked ten years on their unusual movie which fictionalizes the events without compromising. The incredible realism they achieved has not been seen yet in a german movie. Surviving Edelweisspirates like Jean Jülich (78 years old) confess, the movie shows what really happened in an appropiate way. Jülich, who is also the narrator of the movie, has published his autobiography in 2003. The movie is based on his teenage life, even though the 17 years old main character, played by russian teenstar Ivan Stebunov, is called Karl. A fictional compromise. Next to him is his younger brother Peter (Simon Taal), a member of the Hitler Youth who becomes an Edelweisspirate instead later on. Karl is in love with Cilly (Anna Thalbach). She has two kids from Karls older brother Otto who died in the field before marrying Cilly. But Cily falls in love with Bomber Hans (Bela B. Felsenheimer). Hans manages to get hold of weapons and ammunition. He convinces the Edelweisspirates that there is nobody left to take some action. The Gestapo makes it move and Cilly gets arrested. The uneven lovers, Karl and Bomber Hans, try to rescue her, but they fail. The Gestapo is waiting for them already. The group gets arrested. Before their public hanging they are tortured over and over. Only Karl survives by sacrificing his younger brother and making a deal with the Gestapo.

"The Edelweisspirates were the punks of the nazi era", director von Glasow promoted the movie. He found an amazing cast of young amateurs and veterans willing to go through the intense filming in St. Petersburg. The cast includes german filmstar Anna Thalbach and the grand old belgium actor Jan Decleir as the chief of the Gestapo. Bomber Hans is played by Bela B. Felsenheimer, drummer of Germanys favourite punkband Die Ärzte, who has also become a serious actor. So, what else do you need to promote this film in Germany? "Edelweisspiraten", distributed by Cinemavault from Canada, has been sold all over the world already: Thailand, Canada, Belgium, Spain- but nobody in Germany dares to touch the movie. Even after it’s european premiere on the last day of last years Berlinale Festival, Niko von Glasow is still fighting for the movie to be released in his own country. With "The Downfall" (2004) receiving an Oscar-nomination, "Edelweisspirates" isn’t even mentioned in the German media at all. While Hitler, the ultimate villain, is still getting a lot of attention, nobody wants to talk about the underdogs who stood up against the Third Reich. Since "Edelweisspirates" negates the german myth that resistance was impossible during the Third Reich, it challenges the generation of 1944 like no other german movie did yet. But one Sophie Scholl is enough for the history books. There isn’t much room for those who were a little more radical than the innocent heroic virgin Sophie Scholl and the members of the famous "White Rose". The actions of the Edelweisspirates, which Germany still considered to be criminals until a short time ago, prove that more than ten thousand teenagers, young men and women, were actively fighting the system on a day-to-base.

The NS-Documentationcenter is also researching the story of the Edelweisspirates from Cologne where a lot of former members are still alive. They released a package including a cd, a dvd and a book called "Es war in Schanghai" ("It happened in Shanghai", 15 euros at nsdok.de) The cd has old songs by the Edelweisspirates interpreted by contemporary bands from Cologne, an interesting mix of new sounds and dream-like lyrics about the desire to travel the world. A great documentary by Rainer B. Ott and Hacky Hagemeyer shows old pirates and young musicians working on the material and providing an inside look at a forgotten subculture worth having a look at.

Check the english section at edelweisspiraten.com

"Amy and I met Sean, originally from Philly but now working a theater technician and celebrating his 12th year in Berlin. He spoke English softly and haltingly, his accent no doubt tempered by years of speaking deutsch. (...) Sean told us about Alan, the British man who founded and owns the bookstore, whom I had the pleasure to meet a couple of days later. While holding a big pot of cabbage soup...."

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