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...Strindbergian Ghost Sonata remains a mystery. One can easily imagine someone less guilt ridden than Bergman regarding the incident more as a youthful folly than as a life-shaping event. The facts of the matter are mundane enough, as he says in his book. In 1949, Bergman and a journalist named Gun Hagberg, both unhappily married, entered into a passionate affair, beginning with a long tryst in Paris, and continuing after their return to Sweden, where she discovered she was pregnant with his child. A bitter wrangle with her husband over custody of their children ensued. One night, Hagberg...
...Foreign Devils comes alive when Holdsworth finds subjects whose lives were changed by Hong Kong, such as Stacy Mosher, an American who arrived "during that golden period when Hong Kong was no longer a colony and not yet an SAR," changed from teacher to journalist and married a Chinese political publisher. Not every expat was as galvanized by Hong Kong as Mosher, but there were enough to make Foreign Devils more than mere nostalgia...
...haven't heard a single criticism, and although people on the streets aren't naturally discussing politics, they don't shy away when asked questions by a journalist, as in some countries where people are afraid to speak. Ghaddafi seems to be quite admired, actually. They are more inclined to believe that America and Britain don't want to give them a chance...
DIED. AUBERON WAUGH, 61, acerbic British writer, journalist and satirist and son of celebrated novelist Evelyn Waugh; in Taunton, England. Waugh published the first of his five novels, The Foxglove Saga, in 1960, but won greater fame from his journalistic career, becoming renowned for the comic vitriol of the columns he wrote for a diverse range of publications, ranging from the up-market daily The Daily Telegraph to the satirical magazine Private Eye. Forecasting his imminent demise in an interview in November, Waugh said: "Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore...
...open a Best Buy retail store, for fear of alienating sponsor Target. Even Hatch was denied the chance to be a host of NBC's Saturday Night Live, and CBS kiboshed his plans for a Survivor book. "Basically, CBS owns the rights to their stories in perpetuity," says journalist Peter Lance, who was to co-write with Hatch. (In his own book, The Stingray, Lance charged that Survivor producers tried to influence the game's outcome--a potential FCC violation--which CBS denies...