Can you say "T-M-I?" Camille Paglia overshares in Salon:
When I saw Bergman's "Persona" at its first release in New York in 1967, I felt that it was the electrifying summation of everything I had ever pondered about Western gender and identity. The title of my doctoral dissertation and first book
, "Sexual Personae," was an explicit homage to Bergman. On a British lecture tour for the National Film Theatre in 1999, I asked to sleep with "Persona" -- whose five reels, like holy icons, rested in two silver cans next to my bed.
Should I even ask what your sleepover cinema candidate might be? Or do I risk not respecting you in the morning?
