Word: bergen
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Night One of Anne Frank, based on Melissa Muller's 1998 biography, is a familiar depiction of the beloved diarist and her family's life in the secret annex. But on Night Two, following Frank (Hannah Taylor Gordon) into Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, it becomes a different film. These scenes, unflinching and almost without dialogue (the Nazis strip Anne of her clothes, her hair and her indomitable spirit), make a hard-to-take but overdue answer to the easy optimism of past Diary productions...
...team that shells out vast sums of money to a 25-year-old athlete while its neighbors are desperately trying to meet their most basic survival needs. Surely we can find a better balance between maximizing profits for professional sports teams and seeking social justice. BARBARA H. BERGEN Los Angeles...
...Ellen overcoming her basement nightmare and the precocious adolescent Ellen is both fresh and hauntingly familiar. There are the echoes of another spunky Dutch girl that get the reader's imagination working overtime. What sort of chronicle of deaths foretold would Anne Frank have written if she had survived Bergen-Belsen, returned to Amsterdam and moved back to her secret quarters at 263 Prinsengracht...
...writers pitch all these ideas with big stars and then wait for me to make the call," she fake-laments, snacking on cantaloupe between takes. "My God! Who knew?" Candice Bergen and Lily Tomlin were intrigued by the bit but had to pass--or rather, not pass. Finally Midler said, "Why don't we just go for the biggest star we can get? Why don't we call Jack Nicholson?" With the crew giggling around the phone, she rang up the Joker himself...
MARRIED. CANDICE BERGEN, 54, star of Murphy Brown and widow of director Louis Malle, and MARSHALL ROSE, 63, real estate magnate; in New York City...