Racer XXX

The soon-to-be-released SPEED RACER movie was filmed in Germany.  One therefore wonders if the recent scandal involving the president of the organization that oversees formula-one racing was an impossibly subtle piece of marketing for the movie.  According to the LA Times, this chap was videotaped engaging in a five-hour s & m party with prostitutes dressed as prison guards and as striped-suited prisoners -- during which he occasionally adopted a German accent, or counted in German -- then, ever the British gentleman, treated himself to a spot of tea.  Adding historical context to the story are the facts that the president's parents were interned during World War II for their support of the Nazi cause; and that the parents were married in Joseph Goebbels's home, possibly with Hitler in attendance.  (The president denies that his session had any Nazi overtones.)

The whole affair sounds like the plot of some short paperback with large type, a poor binding, and a gaudily-painted cover left behind in a bus station.