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...It’s peppered with ads. It’s oddly time-sucking in a way other entertainments aren’t; no one’s ever looked up suddenly to find they’ve wasted eight hours in a George Eliot novel or an Ingmar Bergman marathon. But with all of these considerations in mind, television is still an art form, a medium. No one stops going to see movies just because some films aren’t as good as “The Godfather,” yet plenty of the smartest, most...
...Baby Face. But she didn't get an Oscar nomination until 1938, when she broke from her normal screen character to play the nobly sacrificing mother in Stella Dallas. Seven years later, when she was a finalist as the rotten femme fatale of Double Indemnity, she lost to Ingrid Bergman, whose husband is trying to kill her in Gaslight. Oscar chose the wanly victimized wife over the fabulously victimizing...
...Cosmic Comics Re "Lumps in the Cosmos" [Jan. 21]: as a member of the comedy group Firesign Theatre, along with Phil Austin, Peter Bergman and David Ossman, I would like to point out that we first espoused the "cosmic lump theory" back in 1971 with our album I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus. During a simulated ride, "Up Against the Wall of Science," at the holographic Future Fair, the narrator says, "For some reason, for some time in the beginning, there were hot lumps. Cold and lonely, they whirled noiselessly through the black holes of space. These...
...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...