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Giant golden characters emblazoned on red banners stretched across the streets of Chinatowns throughout the country last Friday as Chinese-Americans saw in 4675, the year of the Serpent, with feasting, fireworks and parades. The celebrations, with touches of American, may not have been quite like the one in Peking. As one might expect to find in China this week, the streets were piled high with the wrappers of exploded firecrackers, but in the United States less-than-traditional ash cans and cherry bombs also littered the pavement, while Adidas stripes flushed under many a dancing dragon...
...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...
Bergman contends that The Serpent's Egg "was a strange foreshadowing of my future A year before I wrote it, I began to feel that Farö [his beloved island in the Baltic Sea] was not mine any more. I had always thought that I'd live out my life there. But suddenly I felt that it and my possessions no longer belonged to me. I sensed that I would have to leave. A year later I wrote the script. Two months after I finished it, I was arrested [for tax evasion]. Looking back, I think I knew...
Malevolent as a demon. Treacherous as a serpent. Savage as a mad dog. These were only a few of the epithets that have been hurled at the 62-year-old widow of Mao Tse-tung since her arrest early last month. By last week the official campaign of vilification had turned into a formidable bill of indictment. The increasing gravity of the accusations may be a grim prelude to a secret purge trial of the "Gang of Four" -Chiang Ch'ing and the discredited leaders of Shanghai's radicals...
...Serpent is flawed by its glib attempt to examine a fundamentally irreligious society through a religious haze. The lines that emerge as the play's philosophical premise--"So man created God. What for? To see limits on himself."--never become very meaningful or especially convincing. Nonetheless, on opening night one could extract a snippet, albeit strained, of still-valid revelation from the Ex's proficient production... When the cast shared apples from the Tree of Knowledge with the audience, somebody murmured amid the general crunching, "It's delicious...