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...delay in diplomatic engagement, the failure to press for an immediate cease-fire, the refusal to condemn Israel for heinous attacks on civilians and disruption of humanitarian relief: such tactics further reveal the Bush Administration's Middle East policy for the ethically bankrupt disaster it has always been. CHARLES BERGMAN Omaha...
...seen her before: Isabella Rossellini was the face of Lancôme. A daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, she is a model, actress, and an author. For the 100th anniversary of her father's birth, Rossellini, 54, wrote In the Name of the Father, the Daughter and the Holy Spirits: Remembering Roberto Rossellini and made the film My Dad Is 100 Years Old. She spoke to TIME's Jeff Chu about her dad's belly, today's Bergman and ageism...
Whom do you see as an heiress to your mother Ingrid Bergman...
...foreign-language films that have made any noise at the U.S. box office were not daring at all. Cinema Paradiso, Like Water for Chocolate, The Postman and their ilk gave viewers the warm fuzzies. They owed more to traditional Hollywood romantic dramas than to the trailblazing experiments of Bergman, Godard and Antonioni. As for the foreign films that critics championed, these tended to be minimalist to the point of inertia: static-camera portraits of glum people doing not very much...
Among the superlatives that might be tossed his way, Bergman was surely the most probing writer of women's roles, the most sympathetic director of actresses. Harriet and Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin and Gunnel Lindblom caught fire in the Swede's existential dramas. He wrote searing roles for them; they gave body and soul to his ideas, becoming for a time his muses, often his lovers. Bergman's last, most lasting actress liaison was with the Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann. Her soft features and stern resolve inspired a string of stern masterworks, starting with 1966's Persona, in which...