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...Films begin with the human face," Bergman said, and he filled his screen with the faces of many great actresses, from Bibi and Harriet Andersson to Liv Ullmann and Lena Olin. Even after retiring as a film director, Bergman was still an ace casting director. This time he insisted that Ostergren, who played the maid in Fanny and Alexander, be cast as Anna. It is the film's great coup. She is not exactly beautiful, but her conviction and radiance carry the story's emotional burden: that such a woman could love such a man. The strength of her love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: August Sonata | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

...These days, people should not and do not makedecisions by themselves," Schauer says. "It's notlike Ozzie and Harriet, where Ozzie decides tomove, and the whole family jumps into the car andgoes, My wife was just as much a part of thedecision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECRUITMENT: THE ART OF THE DEAL | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...first level, Quayle's Ozzie and Harriet universe, with its freckle- faced nuclear-family suburban reassurances, collided with that of successful autonomous career women like the one portrayed in Murphy Brown. The executive producer of Murphy Brown, Diane English, had a well-machined answer for Quayle: "If the Vice President thinks it's disgraceful for an unmarried woman to bear a child, and he believes that a woman cannot adequately raise a child without a father, then he'd better make sure abortion remains safe and legal." Given that Murphy Brown was pregnant, what did Quayle expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: But Seriously, Folks . . . | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

Financier Charles Keating Jr., who cost investors $250 million when his Lincoln Savings & Loan Association in Irvine, Calif., collapsed, was sentenced last week to 10 years in prison and fined $250,000. "Charles Keating did not steal a loaf of bread," said Harriet Chappuise, one of the elderly people who lost money in the failure. "He stole the bread out of the mouths of thousands of old people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Et Cetera | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...with the death of Dottie's Aunt Harriet, who spends her last moments on earth at a bargain basement clearance sale, Dottie inherits the money to make a new life. With this newfound freedom, Dottie moves her family from Queens to Manhattan and is off in pursuit of her dream...

Author: By Ronnetta L. Fagan, | Title: Life Is No Joke When Your Kids Hate You | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

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