European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday april 21 2007 stars and stripes Page 19 faces David and Madonna Rivers Madonna dances for Day care opening Madonna wore a shirt proclaiming love and danced to the rhythm of a pop song at the opening of a Day care Center thursday one of the projects Shes funding in Malawi the 48yearold Singer who car ried toddler David Banda in her arms was greeted by singing Chil Dren As she toured the Center run by local Charity Consol Homes Madonna picked up David then 14 months old from an orphanage in Malawi in october and took him to her London Home she is hoping to adopt the child her latest visit is to Check on projects run by her raising Malawi organization local children performed the Paul Simon Joseph Sha Balala hit diamonds on the soles of her shoes playing traditional instruments and sing ing Madonna danced to the refrain the Center wih eventually provide education and food for up to 4000 children from surrounding Rural areas Joan Rivers shown Way off red carpet Joan Rivers is being replaced by Lisa Rinna As to guide channels leading re carpet Host the actress will make her debut at the emmy awards on sept 16 the network said wednesday Rivers 73 and her daughter Mel Issa launched to guide channels re carpet programming in january 2005 they had previously appeared As re carpet hosts ones entertain ment to guide Channel is very appreciative of Joan and Melissa Rivers contributions to the Success of our re carpet programming Over the past three years Ryan Ohara pres ident of to guide Channel said in a statement we wish them the Best in their future endear ors Rivers meanwhile is staying mum i will Tell you my True feelings and experiences As soon As we finalize our new Deal she said in a statement re leased by her spokeswoman Judy Katz Tony Leung Chiwai Back on red Cliff casting changes for John woos new chinese historical epic red Cliff Are beginning to resemble a game of musical chairs first Tony Leung Chiwai dropped out then Chow Nunfat departed now Leung is returning to the movie because of Bis Friendship with woo an investor said thursday Leung will play chows role the general Zhouyu Taiwan Ese japanese heartthrob Takeshi Kaneshiro will play master strategist huge Liang lungs original role Leung said earlier he had pulled out of the million film because it followed too closely after his latest movie Ang Lees lust caution and he didst have time to pre pare for his role the chinese government wants red Cliff based on a famous ancient Battle released before the 2008 olympic games in being so that foreigners can learn More about the country Lindsay Lohan says Shes no addict Lindsay Lohan says she Felt Safe while she was in rehab earlier this year but Doest consider herself an addict the 20yearold actress said in january she had checked into the wonderland Center in los Angeles to take care of my personal health her publicist con firmed in december that Lohan was attending alcoholics Anonymous meetings Lohan then said she had been going to the meetings for a year if s so weird that i went to rehab i always said i would die before i went to rehab Lohan tells allure Magazine in an interview in its May Issue Lohan says she decided to enter the addiction treatment facility at the suggestion of her therapist her room was All White with a parquet and it was Dif Ferent i just Felt Safe she says i thought to going to stay Here tonight and i stayed there for a month it was photos and stories from the associated press Lohan Damon Paul Verhoeven if youre me and you look for powerful stories where life is always on the line you look to world War l ambiguous morality play in Verhoeven Black Book War is not about heroism by Patrick Goldstein los Angeles times Hollywood when asked Why there is so much moral ambiguity in his films notably in Black Book the world War ii thriller that opened recently Paul Verhoeven volunteers a Story from Bis boyhood in Holland during the last Winter of the War everyone in Holland was starving it was known As the hunger Winter battered by Al lied attacks the occupying germans took any available food for them selves the 68yearold filmmaker recalls his father going on bicycle trips with tires made out of slats of Wood since there was no rubber to be found when his father would return with a piece of cheese and a slip of bread the family would dance with Joy every one was too hungry to Brood Over the fact that the Benefactor was a grocer who was a nazi Collaborator he gave the food to us because my father a schoolteacher had Given his son a Good education Verhoeven re Calls so even As a Young boy i Felt that people who did terrible things were still human enough to care about their neighbors made by the Man behind such rude revenge filled Hollywood fare As Rob Ocop and Basic instinct Black Book teems with deception and betrayal offering a far More mor Dant View of the dutch underground than Soldier of Orange verhoeve ens celebrated 1977 film that casts the resistance in a heroic Light Black Book has a heroine played by Carice Van Houten but Shes a verho even esque heroine a wily survivor who uses sex As a weapon a jewish cabaret Singer in biding on a dutch farm she joins the Resis Tance when her family is slaughtered by the nazis taking on the assignment of seducing the local Gestapo chief played by Sebastian Koch she not Only carries off the seduction but Falls in love As Well the plot takes Many turns from there but Verhoeven Man Ages to keep us morally off balance on almost every front first presenting a Lovely jew in the arms of a handsome nazi then portraying a nazi officer As far More sympathetic than the dutch resistance fighters who barely Dis Guise their contempt for jews at breakfast one morning near his la Home Verhoeven is full of Charm and Bluff Candor especially when Dis cussing his Homeland the dutch have been saved from disgrace by Anne Frank because that one exam ple made people think the dutch were All Good Verhoeven said but the reality was that there was lots of latent antisemitism if you say a jewish tip in dutch it Means no tip at All these things have been pushed under the carpet which of course Only made me want to use them in a Story for those of us who Are accustomed to seeing world War n treated in Good Sevil or us them terms it can be a disorienting experience to be faced with so much moral complexity in a drama about the nazis and those who opposed them most of the events in Black Book written by Gerard Soetemann verhoeve ens longtime Collaborator Are based in reality including the Story of a Law yer in the Hague who had a Black Book filled with the names of traitors and collaborators the biggest thing we Learned doing research was that during the War it want All heroism he said there were a lot of people collaborating and sleeping with the germans it was Only after Stalingrad when the germans looked As if they were going to lose that the resistance started booming clearly for dutch filmmakers the period continues to hold great drama if youre me and you look for Power Ful stories where life is always on the line you look to world War n he explains for nearly 200 years Holland had been a peaceful Neutral country even in world War i we we rent occupied we didst suffer then suddenly in 1940 the War came to us and people had to show their True character that drama when Peoples real soul has to show itself Verhoeven dilemma is that in hol Lywood the Era of personal filmmaking is Over the directors who Are valued Are pragmatic craftsmen not provocateurs he admits that his last american film hollow Man was so impersonal that you Coul Dve Given it to any competent american director and it  have been so differ ent though it has received a mixed reception from critics Here Black Book was a big hit in Holland and has led to More work for Verhoeven who been spinning his wheels i needed to do something that led me Back to my passion and it turned out that it led me Back to Holland he says quietly i have to do what i feel in Only Good when i read a script and i can find myself inside the Story