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Tom Cruise: Germans Do the RightThing
By encinoman
Tom Cruise doesn&;t need any more free publicity, but the German government gave him and the movie Valkryie plenty of it when they refused to let them film the saga of anti-Hitler plotter Claus Van Stauffenberg at the Bendlerblock. It&;s now a memorial and part of the German Defense Ministry&;but it was where the generals who rebelled against Hitler were tortured and executed in 1944.
Guess what? As we advocated here, the German government had a change of heart and the filming is OKed. From a PR perspective, if an artist wants to tell the story, the government should try to help make it happen&;even if that artist is a &;wacky Scientologist.&;
The German government finally realized what a PR disaster it was to look like they were denying Cruise filming rights because of his religion. We know where that goes.
This entry was posted on September 15, 2007 at 7:15 am and is filed under Colonel-Claus-von-Stauffenberg, tom-cruise, Valkyrie.
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