In the Los Angeles Times, Kevin Thomas, in the course of interviewing Max von Sydow about his role in Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, gets the legendary Swedish actor to open up about his special relationship with the late Ingmar Bergman, and to discuss the kinds of scripts (ranging from "boring" to "flat-out bad") he has to pass up to get to the truly choice roles he says he can now afford to take in his sunset years. "Most roles I am offered are fathers or grandfathers who die after twenty-five pages," says Von Sydow. — Leonard Pierce