Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their reporting. In the past few months a full dozen of them have switched locale and sometimes climate, language and hemisphere as well. David Aikman probably faces the stiffest challenge at the moment -establishing a new Eastern European bureau in a 100-year-old farmhouse in West Berlin. He calls it "a forced learning process in the simultaneous skills of driver, messenger, clerk, telex operator and office manager." Aikman went to Berlin after four years in Hong Kong. Both cities, he notes, "are outposts of Western enterprise and freedom within the orbit of Communist states...
...there will be almost twice as many people over 65 (43 million) as there are today, exerting immense new pressures on the Social Security, pension and Medicare systems. To Columbia University Sociologist Amitai Etzioni, "ZPG spells a decadent society, a la France in the '30s, a la Berlin in the early '30s. This means a less innovative society, a society in which fewer people will have to attend, care, feed, house and pay for a larger number...
...Serpent's Egg is the costliest ($4 million) and most audacious movie Bergman has attempted. It is the story of a Jewish trapeze artist from Philadelphia (David Carradine) who is trapped in the Berlin of 1923, when Nazism was metastasizing. "I am making a horror film," says Bergman...
...wanted to make his film in black and white. When the producers resisted, he and his habitual partner, Cameraman Sven Nykvist, found a compromise. Says Nykvist: "Ingmar and I agreed to shoot color in black and white." Although most of the film captures the dark, gray quality of drab Berlin, Bergman has punctuated the gloom with bright and often zany scenes. "After years of crying for him," says Liv Ullmann, who plays Manuela, the nightclub entertainer whom Carradine loves, "Ingmar has finally allowed me to sing and dance." Wearing the scantiest of costumes, Ullmann was ordered to perform badly...
Bergman drew on his youthful experiences for the film's biggest scene, a parade down a re-created Berlin street of 1923 -jokingly called the Bergmanstrasse. The day began dreadfully because the sun was shining for the first time in nearly a week, casting dark shadows over the mock buildings. "We are merely facing a catastrophe," the director said through clenched teeth. Some 450 extras clogged the streets, many crammed uncomfortably aboard antique buses...