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This mystique made Lancaster, who died last week of a heart attack at 80, the first modernist movie hunk. He sprang to prominence in the emotional chaos after World War II and was a star in his first role, as the doomed Swede in The Killers (1946). Immediately viewers could spot a gritty urban charm, brooding good looks, a handsome physique. He made the most of this charisma in The Crimson Pirate, an ebullient homage to Douglas Fairbanks that drew on Lancaster's own acrobatic skills, and later as the consummate con man in both Elmer Gantry (for which...
...course, Grapenlov is a Swede (you need United Nations assistance to understand some of the conversations in San Jose's locker room), and there is your usual smattering of Americans, Canadians and Rhode Islanders...
Schrobsdorff's way of relaxing after the Barcelona Olympics was to get married. She is based in Brussels. Her husband, a Swede with roots in the north, lives in Stockholm. The wedding was in Lapland. She wore a crown of gold with spikes festooned with pearls, and looked, she says, "like an escapee from EuroDisney." Despite the ancient rivalry between Norway and Sweden, she has been greeted warmly -- and efficiently. "The Norwegians are so organized that we finished most of the work last September. We're still waiting for the Barcelonans to send the rest of our phone bill...
...Egypt for 20 attacks against tourist targets. The most recent, a TNT explosion that ripped through Cairo's Wadi el-Nil cafe, came just 75 minutes after the Trade Center explosion, and investigators are looking into a possible connection. Four people were killed in the Cairo blast, including a Swede and a Turk. Two Americans and a Canadian were among the 18 people injured...
...Best Intentions -- written by Bergman but directed by Bille August, the Dane who made Pelle the Conqueror -- proves you can't keep a solemn Swede down. It recounts the first married years of Bergman's parents, whose later lives he dramatized in his family-album movie, Fanny and Alexander. In retrospect we can see that Bergman was unlikely to retire to some Fort Lauderdale of the soul; familiar demons would fill his afternoon naps with nightmares. And with the unfinished business of putting his parents on paper. Somebody else would put them on film...