November 15, 2007

Claus Von Stauffenberg, the man who nearly killed Hitler, is 100 today. With nearly perfect timing, Tom Cruise is to star as Von Stauffenberg in Valkyrie, er, next year. Stauffenberg's son is not pleased.
posted by Plegmund 16 years ago
  • "I've heard he's quite small." Har!
  • Gah! Yes, I know it makes me seem OCD, or just plain pedantic, but I couldn;t help losing all interest in the biography when the author mixed up "loose" and "lose." I guess I'm just going to have to get used to the fact that that we're losing the word "lose" permanently.
  • Claus Von Stauffenberg, the man who nearly killed Hitler, is 100 today. To be accurate, Stauffenberg would be 100 today, had he not been executed shortly after the failed assassination attempt. And I'm with the son on this about the movie -- "it's bound to be rubbish"
  • He never died, said he.
  • I was taking the view that although dead people don't age, they do go on getting older.