Word: bergman
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...agree with Picasso's quote: "Good artists copy; great artists steal"? -Debbie Johnson, Rochester, Mich.Oh, I've stolen from the best. I've stolen from Bergman. I've stolen from Groucho, from Chaplin, from Keaton, from Martha Graham, from Fellini. I mean I'm a shameless thief...
...disappointed that you didn't mention the passing of one of the greatest film directors of our time, Michelangelo Antonioni, who died the same day Ingmar Bergman did. Having mentioned Bergman - and very rightly so - you should have also commemorated Antonioni. Quite a large space was dedicated, for example, to Anna Nicole Smith - an ill-considered selection. Tamar Ahronovitch, JERUSALEM...
...anthem can read like a gleeful celebration of sex and drunkenness), others rely on bombs bursting in air and other martial images for their oomph. France's La Marseillaise may be the most stirring of any national anthem (or so it sounded coming from the lovely mouth of Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca), but you have to ask: are fields soaked in impure blood really the most fitting image for a modern anthem...
...disappointed that you didn't mention the passing of the great film director Michelangelo Antonioni, who died the same day Ingmar Bergman did. Having rightly mentioned Bergman, you should also have commemorated Antonioni. Tamar Ahronovitch, Jerusalem...
...with pathos, as much for monster as for man. Grendel is a horror, a plague, to Hrothgar's kingdom, but he seems plaintive, lonely, in his cave. He complains to his mother in some Scandivanian tongue, as if Gollum had shown up in a Bergman film. Up close he has the physiognomy of Rondo Hatton, the actor whose acromegalic face got him roles as villains in ?40s mysteries and horror films. Grendel too seems typecast for villainy, but maybe the humans just don't understand how close he is to them. Why, they might...