![]() Putting down tools gives us time to reflect, to reassess what really matters to a society. The “bottom line” speaks to profits and margins, but the bottom line is that a business isn’t successful without a value system that prioritizes people.“Workers of the world, unite!” isn’t just the bookend to a communist’s manifesto. But it can also be a crucial part of a restoration of community. While elements of America’s strongly capitalistic society have bristled at them, a Gallup poll from last August states that support of labor unions (71%) is at its highest point since 1965.Unionizing can be seen as an inconvenience – disruptive to commerce and to many Americans’ daily lives. Labor unions are as American as apple pie. The National Labor Relations Board has reported an uptick in unfair labor practice charge filings and union representation petitions, the latter at a pace unseen since the 1970s. Then there are the actors and writers, making a compelling argument out of whether art imitates life, or vice versa.Right now, they’re all thinking about a strike.Even as the number of unions has dropped over decades, recent labor activity with high-profile entities such as Amazon and Starbucks has shined a light on workers’ discontent. There are various airport personnel, making sure everyone gets from here to there. There’s the delivery person, in a shade of brown, leaving packages on the front porch. He was 90.All the world’s a stage, Shakespeare wrote, and all the men and women merely players. Max von Sydow died on March 8, 2020, in Provence, France, and was survived by his wife Catherine Brelet and four children. In 2016, he joined the sixth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011) as the Three-eyed Raven, which earned him his Primetime Emmy Award nomination. He received the Guldbagge Award for Best Director in his directing debut, the drama film Ved vejen (1988). He was nominated twice: for Pelle the Conqueror (1987) in 1988 and for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) in 2012. He became one of Sweden's most admired and professional actors, and is the only male Swedish actor to receive an Oscar nomination. Peter Ingham in Awakenings (1990) Lamar Burgess in Minority Report (2002) and The Renter in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), which earned him his second Academy Award nomination. Since then, his career includes very different kind of characters, like Karl Oskar Nilsson in The Emigrants (1971) Father Lankester Merrin in The Exorcist (1973) Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor (1975), Emperor Ming in Flash Gordon (1980) the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the Never Say Never Again (1983) Liet-Kynes in Dune (1984) the artist Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror (1987), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination Dr. His career abroad began with him playing Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) Hawaii (1966) and The Quiller Memorandum (1966). His work in the movies by Ingmar Bergman (especially The Seventh Seal (1957), including the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death) made him well-known internationally, and he started to get offers from abroad. After graduation, he worked at the city theatres in Norrköping and Malmö. His first role was as Nils the crofter in Alf Sjöberg's Only a Mother (1949). After conscription, he began to study at the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school (1948-1951), together with Lars Ekborg, Margaretha Krook and Ingrid Thulin. When he was in high school, he and a few fellow students, including Yvonne Lombard, started a theatre club which encouraged his interest in acting. His surname traces back to his partial German ancestry. He was the son of Baroness Maria Margareta (Rappe), a teacher, and Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, an ethnologist and folklore professor. Max von Sydow was born Carl Adolf von Sydow on Apin Lund, Skåne, Sweden, to a middle-class family. ![]()
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