Hey everyone: I'm working on a conference paper on Ingmar Bergman's "Persona" and want to try and track down the published source of a quote, who said it, and exactly what it was word-for word. The quote was made sometime in the 1980s or early '90s (at least that's when I read it) and it was made by a Republican political figure. (If memory serves it was made by a member of Reagan's administration, maybe James Watt or Dick Cheney, but it might also have been made by someone in the legislative branch like Newt Gingrich.) This person said (in a paraphrase): "I used to watch Ingmar Bergman films like everyone else in the 1960s but they made me depressed so I stopped. Now I'm not depressed any more.") I think I read it in "Newsweek" or "Time Magazine". It *might* have been mentioned in the context of all those NEA controversies ("Poison", Mapplethorpe) and the Right Wing's reaction to "dark" works of art. I'd be eternally grateful if anyone knew how to track this down. I've spent hours and hours at my university library on database searches and have come up with nothing. Best Daniel Isaac Humphrey Department of Art & Art History University of Rochester 424 Morey Hall Rochester NY 14627-0456 www.rochester.edu/College/AAH/people/grad/humphrey.html ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]