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Sensible, sixtyish Marianne (Liv Ullmann) is getting exasperated with her cranky, octogenarian ex-husband Johan (Erland Josephson). "Sometimes," she says, "you act like a forgotten character from some stupid old film." That moment in Ingmar Bergman's new film Saraband will stir recollections in viewers who are Marianne's age--or maybe Johan's--since the two characters and the same actors appeared three decades ago in Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage. But to the majority of 'plex patrons, it is the Swedish filmmaker who is the forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Roar From a Legend | 7/5/2005 | See Source »

...house lights dim on the smartly-dressed, sixtyish crowd and he enters, maneuvering in the narrow space between the small dinner tables with the running-back grace of a Gale Sayers. He?s as tall as you?d expect (6ft.1) but much slimmer, in a dark, pin-striped suit, pink shirt, rose-colored tie. He announces his list of cabaret don?ts and dos: ?1. Don?t suck. 2. Do it as if you were entertaining in your living room.? Stokes? sucklessness ia a given; and the only format here is informality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Stoked! | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...split evenly. But the next day, when Michael, 38, and his wife Jillanne went to claim the purse, there was no mention of Phyllis. That night Michael told his parents that he had bought the winning stub separately from their $40 monthly pool. Sorry, Ma. Phyllis, a sixtyish retiree, then decided to remind her son of what happens when you don't play well with others: she's suing him, claiming breach of an oral contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sorry, Ma | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...union of Diana and Dodi would have culminated three decades of exhaustive and expensive attempts by the sixtyish Mohammed al Fayed to prove his British bona fides by collecting some of the nation's trophies. In addition to Harrods, he owns the famed humor magazine Punch, the Fulham Football Club and Balnagow castle in Scotland; his millions have sponsored the annual Royal Windsor Horse Show, where he has shared the royal box with the Queen. Al Fayed's younger brother Ali owns Turnbull & Asser, the prestigious tailor used by Prince Charles and his sons William and Harry. And al Fayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FAYEDS: OUTSIDE LOOKING IN | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

BERNARD JUPITER is having a hard time with the electronic cash register. As the machine beeps a warning, the sixtyish Jupiter, his watery blue eyes peering over half glasses, struggles to find the right key. "I'm sorry, sir," he says to the man on the other side of the counter, who appears to be waiting somewhat patiently for a burger and fries. "I just started working here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MCSENIORS | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

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