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criterioncorner: INGMAR BERGMAN INTERVIEWS INGMAR BERGMAN Bergman: As always, one forgets the hard work and remembers the fun. In this case, the skerries. We— Bergman: MAKE IT SHORT! Bergman: One morning at six o’clock, we were on our way to location, the engine of our little boat thumping across the still waters. The horizon at sea fused with the sky, the islets stood like floating octopuses in all that soft white. Up above, the fiery button of the sun was burning. It was warm and unusually still; there wasn’t even a swell, not a ripple. It was like eternity itself. It was like being in eternity. The smell of the sea, the quivering in the hull, the murmur around the stem, and the high silence — the summer of eternity. Bergman: And then what happened? Bergman: Nothing. That was it. 

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INGMAR BERGMAN INTERVIEWS INGMAR BERGMAN

Bergman: As always, one forgets the hard work and remembers the fun. In this case, the skerries. We—

Bergman: MAKE IT SHORT!

Bergman: One morning at six o’clock, we were on our way to location, the engine of our little boat thumping across the still waters. The horizon at sea fused with the sky, the islets stood like floating octopuses in all that soft white. Up above, the fiery button of the sun was burning. It was warm and unusually still; there wasn’t even a swell, not a ripple. It was like eternity itself. It was like being in eternity. The smell of the sea, the quivering in the hull, the murmur around the stem, and the high silence — the summer of eternity.

Bergman: And then what happened?

Bergman: Nothing. That was it. 

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Actor Jeremy Sisto (Suburgatory, Six Feet Under, Clueless, Rollin’ with My Homies) promoting his solo album, as his musical alter ego “Escape Tailor”, described as “someone who lives wholly in the present, unburdened of social norms and deeply tethered to his own flawed humanity … equal parts street musician and homeless clown.”  There’s a six minute video of the debut single, Just Cuz.  

Actor Jeremy Sisto (Suburgatory, Six Feet Under, Clueless, Rollin’ with My Homies) promoting his solo album, as his musical alter ego “Escape Tailor”, described as “someone who lives wholly in the present, unburdened of social norms and deeply tethered to his own flawed humanity … equal parts street musician and homeless clown.”  There’s a six minute video of the debut single, Just Cuz.  

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Unrelated, from 2003: “Cult actor WILLIAM SHATNER has come to a settlement with his ex-wife - over the temperature of horse semen.  The STAR TREK star and second wife MARCY LAFFERTY had been battling over the breeding rights of three stallions owned by William. Marcy had sued her 72-year-old ex-hubby because their 1995 divorce settlement stated the horse semen should come in a “fresh cooled format”.  Her lawsuit had alleged William had been providing sperm that was frozen solid, which Marcy found “unacceptable”.”  Also: here is William Shatner’s story about the time he seduced a gorilla.

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Several years later and I found myself friends with Cronkite’s replacement, Dan Rather. Dan and I got to be friendly mainly because his assistant was an ex-flame of mine. Anyhow…one night Dan and his assistant decide to meet me for drinks at the W Hotel in Westwood. As soon as we got there, Dan took me aside and said, ‘This place is packed with pussy!’ No matter how prepared you think you might be…you never expect the voice of the nation’s 6 O’Clock News to speak that way. After three drinks at the W, we moved over to a Sunset Strip club formerly known as Barfly, where Dan kept telling the bartenders that he wanted ‘Three fingers Wild Turkey in a rock’s glass, with a water back. But, barkeep, that’s three fingers vertical. Not horizontal.’ After four hours of hitting the town, we all ended up sleeping at a Century City Hotel. We got in at 3 A.M. At 6 A.M. my phone rang with a very clear-headed Rather asking me if I wanted to fly to Alaska in a couple hours to go fly fishing. I remember I went to his room to politely turn him down, but spotted a pair of female panties in his opened suitcase. ‘Oh…somebody slipped me these when I had no idea,’ was his answer.
A.J. Benza 

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