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...This could just put a greater crush on the housing stock than we now have, if people have to become a resident of the city within a year," Gerard Bergman said...
...Bergman recommended shortening the time span for required residency to three months, making it harder for outsiders to take city jobs and move into the city, while giving a greater advantage to job-seekers who already live here. Neil Rohr, a resident and Cambridge Rainbow organizer, also had doubts about making people move to Cambridge after a year. "That's not hiring Cambridge people, that's hiring people and making them Cambridge residents," he said...
...represent a national cinema -- and an entire nation -- to the world. Ingmar Bergman was such a filmmaker. Any Bergman movie was uniquely personal, but his artistic stature was so towering that audiences saw, in his dour wrangling with elemental issues, a map of Sweden's emotional landscape...
...always thought of Emma as our generation's Katharine Hepburn," says Martin Bergman, an English writer who wrote the Branagh-Thompson Peter's Friends with his wife, the U.S. comic Rita Rudner. Bergman cites "the poise, the professionalism, the ability to perform comedy or drama with equal skill, the ability to create female characters we know and recognize, and whose personalities begin with their minds rather than their cleavage...
...Bergman met Emma when she was 15 and he was 17. "Em had lots of jewelry on and jangled loudly," the writer remembers. "I thought she was immensely sophisticated." Later, when they were both at Cambridge, Bergman "bullied Em into joining the Footlights," the theatrical troupe that has launched so many British comics. "When the annual revue opened, London smelled Em's star quality. A top agent wisely signed her, even though she had two more years to go at university...