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...course, the slipstream of security fears hasn't lifted all charter operators. "Security managers at many Swedish companies have forbidden all types of flying," bemoans Trond Michaelsen, owner of Aircraft Charter World in Stockholm. "They see terrorists everywhere." Michaelsen expected a surge in business after the terror attacks; instead corporate security fiats have halved his trade. And some executives may worry that the smaller planes many charter firms use aren't as safe as commercial airliners, though the figures are equivocal. In any case, Michaelsen expects his business to rebound within six months...
...year-old director's work has uprooted him from his native Stockholm and planted him firmly in filmmaking's élite. My Life as a Dog (1985) first introduced Hollywood to Hallström, but it was The Cider House Rules in 1999, followed by Chocolat in 2000, that cemented his reputation as a master of literary adaptation. Now he's back with another star-studded film, The Shipping News , perhaps his most challenging book-to-big-screen project...
This may be the time for another project: a move from New York, where he has lived for the past few years, back to Stockholm. Johan, his 24-year-old son from his first marriage, still lives in Sweden, and Hallström and his wife, actress Lena Olin, want their other children - her son August, 15, and their daughter Tora, 6 - to grow up Swedish, not American. He also would like to work on a film in his native language. In the U.S.,"I have this feeling of being a visitor who is having an adventure," he says...
DIED. ASTRID LINDGREN, 94, self-effacing, globally revered children's author; in Stockholm. The wildly imaginative and sometimes controversial Swede wrote more than 70 books, but was best known for Pippi Longstocking, a willful, sometimes ill-mannered gamine with bright red pigtails whose self-confidence shocked traditionalists. Lindgren said that Pippi, whose name was coined by her daughter, struck a chord in part because she "has power...but never misuses...
...blond leading lady went by the name Hildegard Neff in Hollywood, where she starred with Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner in 1952's The Snows of Kilimanjaro. DIED. ASTRID LINDGREN, 94, internationally renowned Swedish author of more than 70 children's books, including the now classic Pippi Longstocking; in Stockholm. Lindgren originally conceived the tale of the feisty red-haired heroine as a bedtime story for her seven-year-old daughter. DIED. HAROLD RUSSELL, 88, American WWII veteran who delivered an Oscar-winning performance in the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives; in Needham, Massachusetts. Russell lost both...