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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
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