Word: bergmanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bergman was not the only Swedish taxpayer suffering from this malady. The condition has reached epidemic proportions among the roughly 500,000 Swedes (out of 8.2 million) who own small businesses, farms or shops, or who pursue careers in law, private medicine or the arts. They are being hit by new regulations that have raised taxes to levels that are astronomical and sometimes even absurd. For example, a self-employed taxpayer has to pay 101.2% of all income over...
When Sweden put draconian tax regulations into effect in January, an early victim was one of the welfare state's leading citizens: Director Ingmar Bergman. Two policemen abruptly called Bergman from a Stockholm stage, where he was rehearsing August Strindberg's The Dance of Death, and hauled him away for interrogation on suspicion of having evaded payment of $119,000 in taxes. Although all charges were dropped last week, Bergman remained holed up on his bleak island home at Fårŏ, sunk in what doctors described as "a deep depression as a result of shock...
...blatant politics of the Palme tax policy upsets many Swedes, however. Worried about a political backlash, Palme's tax officials last week insisted that the 101.2% maximum was an "accident," and it was announced that a "provisional tax revision" was under study. Meanwhile, Bergman has angrily canceled all his film and theater projects in Sweden. Some tax experts are suggesting another way for certain self-employed Swedes to cope: divorce. Swedish husbands, they advise, could divorce their wives, dispatch them abroad, then send them big tax-deductible allowances. Upon reaching retirement age, the couple could be joyfully reunited...
...film project financed by Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione and starring Malcolm McDowell. The title, naturally, is Vidal's idea. "I decided to strike a blow for the writer," he says, "and against the idea that the director is the sole auteur of a film Some are-Fellini, Bergman. But most directors are parasites, peculiarly dependent on the talents of writers whose names they very rarely reveal to the press." More immediate is a March visit to the U.S. promoting 1876. Vidal seems unenthusiastic: "When I think about it, I just see 10,000 Ramada Inns from...
...garbage of American culture out to sea. Yale English Professor David Thorburn, who uses the show in one of his courses, has called the Hartman family "an American house of Atreus," although there has been no slaughter so far. Several enthusiasts have compared the show with Ingmar Bergman's film, Scenes from a Marriage-to Bergman's disparagement. Perhaps because he wears a warm-up jacket, Tom has been likened to John Updike's puzzled hero, Rabbit Angstrom. Commentators have noted, almost with reverence, that the characters are "human" and that Mary is "vulnerable," as if these...