"It's better with every film," declared Actress Liv Ullmann, 35, of her working relationship with Director Ingmar Bergman, 56. The Norwegian star of Scenes from a Marriage is now completing her seventh movie with Bergman, who also happens to be the father of her eight-year-old daughter Linn. In the film, titled Face to Face, Liv portrays a psychiatrist whose own woes drive her to attempt suicide. If her romance with Bergman ended amicably, so, too, did her only marriage. For help in preparing her part, Liv called on Psychiatrist Jacob Stang, 41, whom she divorced some seven years ago. "I asked him a lot of questions," explains Liv. Her research seems unlikely to lead her to the couch, however. Ullmann says she has never gone to a shrink, "and after this picture, I certainly never will."
Even Henry Ford II, 57, with a personal fortune that includes some $45 million in company stock, was impressed when he squired 40 Ford executives down to the ranch of sherry baron José Ignacio Domecq, in Jerez, Spain. Señor Domecq, whose son Miguel is assistant controller of Ford's new auto plant in Valencia, Spain, arranged for some flamenco, a bullfight and rivers of Spanish-style ice-cold sherry to entertain his guests. Ford told his host afterward: "I have more money than you, but you have a better way of life." The Domecqs, one of the wealthiest families in Spain, conceded that Ford was half-right, anyway. "He was a bit wrong," one family member said stiffly, "when he talked about himself being richer."
He has difficulty walking more than half a mile or so, and he has had treatment for high blood pressure as well. But the real problem, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre said in an interview published last week in France's Le Nouvel Observateur, is that his vision is failing. "My career as a writer is completely destroyed," said Sartre. "I have had hemorrhages behind my left eye, the one eye with which I could see" (he lost the sight in his right eye from leucoma at age three). "As a consequence, I can neither read nor write." Still, life was not all gloom as Sartre paused to celebrate his 70th birthday recently with Feminist Author Simone de Beauvoir and other friends. "I can still talk," he said, adding that if French television could find the financial backing, he hoped to do "a series of programs where I will try to talk about the 75 years of this century." Meanwhile, he keeps informed by having Longtime Companion Simone, 67, read aloud to him.