Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter of course, he was shunted into the steward's department. Recounts Haley: ''I was on an ammunition ship in the southwest Pacific, and the big problem was boredom and loneliness. I had never thought of being a writer, but I wrote lots and lots of letters. And crew members began to come to me for help in writing love letters. I got pretty good at this, and before long it kinda got to be I didn't have to cook any more. I just wrote love letters." While copying passages from a book (he cannot remember which...
...series of exaggerated downward thrusts-from the sloping hooded lids of his gray eyes to the long beaked nose and long chin. Although usually smiling and pleasant, he demands exact preparation and painstaking orderliness. He is on a first-name basis with each member of his German crew, and they with him. Hand-picked as the best film technicians in Germany, they both fear and adore the Swedish director...
...Germans learned quickly about Bergman's need for privacy while filming. Special locks were installed on the doors to the sound stages, with keys supplied to only cast and crew. Behind locked doors, a Bergman set is a calm and quiet place of intense concentration. "On the first day of shooting," reports Carradine, "Ingmar walked me through the scene where I discover my brother's dead body. To dramatize my dazed condition, I was ordered to walk into a closet and sit down. That's when I realized I was in a Bergman picture...
...does not in fact do that. He even entertains his cast and crew with movie screenings. Liv Ullmann laughs as she recalls how much Bergman enjoyed Jaws: "We teased him, telling him how a young director like Steven Spielberg worked so hard on the open seas trying to get a mechanical fish to work, while he, ever the lazy director, liked to sit in a room with two women and watch them...
...Bergman's recent screenings was of Nickelodeon, a story about the very earliest days of film making. At the point when Ryan O'Neal, playing an inexperienced director, walks onto a set, confronts dubious actors and crew members and mutters, "What do I do now?" Bergman howled with laughter and shouted, "That's it exactly! That's exactly how I feel...