Indonesian Backdrop

The well-known truth that leftists care very little about the massacre of Afro-Asians unless the killers happen to be white has been illustrated several times recently. The frightful atrocities in the Southern Sudan and the mass political murders in Nigeria brought no squeak of protest from any of the habitual protesters: and they seem to have been equally unmoved by the slaughter of Communists in Indonesia, a slaughter which is said to have cost over 300,000 lives.

• Movie Miscellany; Yul Brynner has bought rights to Sascha Guitry’s 1934 film, Diary of a Cheat, for remaking . . . Maurice “Mr. Olympia” Girodias is said to have a film script wherein his recent problems as a nightclub operator and publisher of super-pornography become a screenable comedy. He would like Peter Sellers to star. . . . Included in James Mason’s three-film deal with Columbia is a picture based on Le Carrés Call for the Dead. Renamed The Deadly Affair, the effort will also star Maximilian Schell and Simone Signoret. Sidney Lumet is producer-director. . . . Still more spy movies: one forth – comer is titled The Spy with the Cold Nose; another (a spoof), to star Rosalind Russell, will be based ‘ on Dorothy Gilman’s forthcoming novel, The Unexpected Mrs. Polli-fax. . . . Jane Fonda and Jason Robards have signed to star in the screen version of Any Wednesday.

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The well-known truth that leftists care very little about the massacre of Afro-Asians unless the killers happen to be white has been illustrated several times recently. The frightful atrocities in the Southern Sudan and the mass political murders in Nigeria brought no squeak of protest from any of the habitual protesters: and they seem to have been equally unmoved by the slaughter of Communists in Indonesia, a slaughter which is said to have cost over 300,000 lives.

• Movie Miscellany; Yul Brynner has bought rights to Sascha Guitry’s 1934 film, Diary of a Cheat, for remaking . . . Maurice “Mr. Olympia” Girodias is said to have a film script wherein his recent problems as a nightclub operator and publisher of super-pornography become a screenable comedy. He would like Peter Sellers to star. . . . Included in James Mason’s three-film deal with Columbia is a picture based on Le Carrés Call for the Dead. Renamed The Deadly Affair, the effort will also star Maximilian Schell and Simone Signoret. Sidney Lumet is producer-director. . . . Still more spy movies: one forth – comer is titled The Spy with the Cold Nose; another (a spoof), to star Rosalind Russell, will be based ‘ on Dorothy Gilman’s forthcoming novel, The Unexpected Mrs. Polli-fax. . . . Jane Fonda and Jason Robards have signed to star in the screen version of Any Wednesday.