On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:26:43 +0800, Robert Delfs wrote:

>Riefenstahl's obit was in the IHT this morning.  Her African
>photographs are truly amazing, and her extraordinary films of the
>Nuremberg rallies and the 1936 Berlin Olympics - more than half century
>ago - redefined the craft of filmmaking.

<snip of the kiwi shears>
>The IHT obit said she had was doing dives to photograph sharks as
>recently as August 2002, just after she turned 100, though it didn't
>say where.

Just finished watching the film - Leni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa
which was on SBS over here. Trying to multi-task - watch tv & type to the
list - sorta explains why my first posting tonight was stuffed up.  Oopsie.
Though Leni was 98 in the film about the Nuba she still looked pretty
agile and with-it compared to some 70 year olds I know of.  Her toyboy,
Horst Kettner, sure put up with a lot.  The footage was taken just before
she headed off for a dive trip to the Maldives.
Viv