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WEST EUROPEAN STUDIES SEMINAR on post-war Scandinavian film presents Torment, written by Ingmar Bergman (his first film), directed by Alf Sjeberg. Thurs., WINTHROP HOUSE DINING HALL, 8 p.m., and Fri., LENMAN HALL...
...first goal of the game came on an outstanding effort by Dartmouth forward Alf Alford. He dribbled the ball right up the middle of the field through the bewildered Crimson defense and scored on a low shot into the left corner just past the during goalie George McKennan...
...arch-Archie is Alf Garnett, a spiteful, bitter dockside worker in Till Death Us Do Part, the model for Family. The fathers of Sanford and son are Steptoe and son, on the BBC series of the same name, a pair of cockney rag and bone men who batter themselves and each other relentlessly against a dead end of life. Both Yorkin and Lear adaptations follow the same recipe: take one BBC show, add the milk of human kindness and stir for 30 minutes. "One of our major concerns was not to make Sanford look too grim," says Yorkin. "The Steptoe...
...Lear grew up in such a milieu-poor but not depressing-and both reach back to early days for authentic touches to bring their shows home to viewers. Lear's salesman father, though a second-generation Russian Jew, was almost as much of a source for Archie as Alf Garnett was. He used to call Norman "the laziest white kid I ever saw" and order his wife to "stifle"-both expressions that were to become Archie's. The family shifted restlessly from New Haven, Conn., where Norman was born, to nearby Hartford, then to Boston and New York...
Instead of the growling, affectionate bantering that goes on between the Bunkers, Alf and his wife Else (Dandy Nichols) engage in a lifelong struggle to wound. One Christmas Eve, Else tells Alf that she is pregnant. They cannot recall when or how it could have happened. In the film's best scene, Alf gets drunk at his daughter's wedding, insults the guests and finally passes out. "He ruined my wedding," the bride weeps on her mother's shoulder. "Don't worry," Else soothes her. "He ruined mine...