| Lo Fun Fact #1 |
| "Lolita Files" is my real name. It is not a pen name, as incredible as that may seem. There are plenty of Files family members and people who have known me for years capable of validating this. As for the "Lolita" part, my mother named me after the movie based on Nabokov's book, although she saw or read neither. To this day, she has no idea what a "Lolita" is. |
| Lo Fun Fact #2 |
| I love fried chicken and fabulous shoes. If you ever want to get on my good side, send Popeye's or Mr. Chicken (my favorite spot in Cleveland) and a pair of
Christian Louboutins. |
| Lo Fun Fact #3 |
| Never show up unannounced or without a Pepsi (preferably Pepsi Jazz Caramel Cream). Better yet, how about not show up at all? |
| Lo Fun Fact #4 |
| I hate the telephone. Don't get mad if I don't call you. I don't call anyone. Don't call me asking why I don't call. Just don't call, okay? |
| Lo Fun Fact #5 |
| I love the internet!!! I love communicating through the internet!!! You can e-mail me and odds are I'll e-mail you right back (if I'm not in the middle of a major project). Makes up for my hangup about the phone, doesn't it? See, I'm not so bad after all!!! |
| Lo Fun Fact #6 |
| I can't stand IMing. Please don't IM me. You will get the cold shoulder. I don't like giving people the cold shoulder, so please don't put me in that position. |
| Lo Fun Fact #7 |
I have four five six wonderful, slap-happy dogs, a bird (some kind of dove/pigeon mix), and a cat, all of whom I love to pieces. If you meet me and ask me about my dogs, bird, and cat, we'll be instant friends. If you meet me and ask me why the f*ck I have four five six dogs, a bird, and a cat, see the above fun fact for how I will respond. |
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| Goodbye To A Great. |
| Monday, July 30, 2007 |
I love film. My passion for the cinema is as much a part of me as my skin, eyes, teeth, and hands. It is cellular. Today, we lost of one of the great ones, an auteur in the purest sense. A man whose body of work had not just a great influence on me, but a vast number of creative spirits and lovers of film throughout the world.
 Ingmar Bergman, the “poet with the camera” who is considered one of the greatest directors in motion picture history, died today on the small island of Faro where he lived on the Baltic coast of Sweden, Astrid Soderbergh Widding, president of The Ingmar Bergman Foundation, said. Bergman was 89.
Critics called Mr. Bergman one of the directors — the others being Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa — who dominated the world of serious film making in the second half of the 20th century.
Like many artists, Bergman often drew inspiration from observing life:The ideas for his films, he said, came to him in many ways. "Persona," the study of two women in neurotic intimacy, came to life, he said, when one day he saw two women sitting together comparing hands. "I thought to myself," he said, “that one of them is mute and the other speaks."
The germ for "The Silence" — in which a dying woman and her sister are in a foreign country with no means of communication — came from a hospital visit, he said, where "I noticed from a window a very old man, enormously fat and paralyzed, sitting in a chair under a tree in the park."
"As I watched," he said, "four jolly, good-natured nurses came marching out, lifted him up, chair and all, and carried him back into the hospital. The image of being carried away like a dummy stayed in my mind."
 ...was directly drawn from the title of one of my favorite Bergman films, Scenes From A Marriage.
 I first saw it as a miniseries on PBS (it was later repackaged as a three-hour film) when I was an eggheaded twelve-year-old and was absolutely riveted by the intensity of interaction between the characters as they experienced the extreme highs and lows of matrimony. Its star, Liv Ullmann (who had a child and a long-term relationship with Bergman), instantly became one of my favorite actresses. I remain an avid fan of her body of work to this day.
If you've never seen a Bergman film, do yourself a tremendous favor and watch a marathon of his projects. While his work might not be for everyone, his stories are powerful, moving, and pull from the true and expansive range of human emotion in ways that few directors have done before or since his arrival in the world of cinema.
 ...has long been an unabashed fan of Bergman's. One of Woody's best films, a drama completely absent of his notorious wit, is Interiors...
 ...which chronicles how the grown daughters of a dysfunctional well-to-do family try their best to keep their family unit connected after their father divorces their mother and moves on to a happy new relationship, while the mother, a woman riddled with OCD and a refusal to accept change, passive-aggressively controls those around her and systematically falls apart. Check it out if you get a chance. It is very Bergmanesque and is a film I have watched again and again.
NY Times.com: Ingmar Bergman, Famed Director, Dies at 89 |
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wow...I had no idea how talented he was until I saw what he had done.
glad that he had such a fruitful life and left great inspirations behind for you and many more.
thanks for letting me know specifically who he was to the world and to you.
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Excellent post, Lo. Bergman was the best of the best.
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Your vast intellect and range of interests never ceases to astonish.
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I was a freshman in college when I first saw "Scenes From a Marriage" at a small "art house" in Seattle called The Harvard Exit. It scared the shit out of me! When Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson are huddled in bed together some 25 years or more after their divorce and he asks her, "Do you think we missed something?" And she replies, "Yes, but let's not think about it," I was instantly struck with a new sense of mortality that has stuck with me for the rest of my life. Still trying to make sure I don't miss "it" - whatever "it" is.... I'm still searching and learning, as I think I have a few years left... I hope!
Virgin Spring, Wild Strawberries, Cries and Whispers, and Fanny & Alexander, along with Scenes... (I shoulda figured the title of your first novel had a tie-in, but that would have been a leap!) were among my favorite Bergman films.
I know FOOTBALL is also near and dear to your heart, so you will also be saddened to learn that Bill Walsh died this morning at Stanford Medical Center....
How's Cleveland?
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I was a freshman in college when I first saw "Scenes From a Marriage" at a small "art house" in Seattle called The Harvard Exit. It scared the shit out of me! When Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson are huddled in bed together some 25 years or more after their divorce and he asks her, "Do you think we missed something?" And she replies, "Yes, but let's not think about it," I was instantly struck with a new sense of mortality that has stuck with me for the rest of my life. Still trying to make sure I don't miss "it" - whatever "it" is.... I'm still searching and learning, as I think I have a few years left... I hope!
Virgin Spring, Wild Strawberries, Cries and Whispers, and Fanny & Alexander, along with Scenes (I shoulda figured the title of your first novel had a tie, but what a leap that is!) are among my very favorite Bergman films.
I know FOOTBALL is also near and dear to your heart, so you will also be saddened to learn that Bill Walsh died this morning at Stanford Medical Center....
How's Cleveland?
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Ingmar was one of my few heroes. Unafraid and unabashed in his works. One of the few greats. One of the few heralds of modern cinema. You guys know I have a flippant sense of humor and I have always maintained that imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Please to enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEz2neoofOA
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wow...I had no idea how talented he was until I saw what he had done.
glad that he had such a fruitful life and left great inspirations behind for you and many more.
thanks for letting me know specifically who he was to the world and to you.