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...long before Colbert. Allen, for example, had written a burlesque on The Seventh Seal in The New Yorker. Sometimes whole movies were tongue-in-cheek tributes to Bergman: George Coe and Tony Lover's 1968 American short De Duva (where "water" is the subtitle for the mock-Swedish "aitch-two-oh-ska") and the 1975 Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The spin-offs might be serious, they might be farcical, but all paid tribute to Bergman's unignorable influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Ingmar Bergman Mattered | 7/30/2007 | See Source »

What is it? It is a potty old party, the very model of what the aitch-adding British call a "maiden haunt." It is Comedienne Margaret Rutherford, 69 and still going strong (Passport to Pimlico; I'm All Right, Jack], and in this adaptation of an Agatha Christie chiller called 4:50 from Paddington she has a role that is custom-tailored to her somewhat peculiar measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Potty Old Party | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...Right, Jack. Sellers again, this time as a union shop steward who will make a speech at the drop of an aitch, in a film that takes a cracking good satirical look at labor-management relations in England and the share-fare state which makes the impossible improbably funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jun. 27, 1960 | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

...Right, Jack. Sellers again, this time as a union shop steward who will make a speech at the drop of an aitch, in a film that takes a cracking good satirical look at labor-management relations in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Jun. 20, 1960 | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...wittily written and redoubtably well played. He is the union's shop steward, a shabby individual who somehow manages to look like a fanatical potato. He has an aggressive proletarian pallor, beady eyes and an eagerly struggling mustache. He will make a speech at the drop of an aitch, and shows a genivs for tautology ("the existing agreement that exists") and abecedarianism ("I have no hesitation in delineating it as barefaced provocative of the workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Sellers Market | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

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