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Whether discussing food or crepe-sole shoes, the point is always to take the personal public, while preserving an intimate audience. That's why the thing most feared by a zine publisher is fame, even the notorious kind. Greta, for instance, is the publisher of Mudslap, but Greta is an alias, and she puts out her zine as she hitches rides in the boxcars of America's railway system. "I don't want anyone to know too much about it -- 'cause if they do, then people will think they're Jack London or Steinbeck. They'll go freight hopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEAS: Zine But Not Heard | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

...Players: Deborah Kory, Greta Steffenson, Valerie Gilson...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: W. Tankers Learn New Lessons | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...descendants of the Greta Garbo school of celebrity reticence. Nowadays the aggressively reclusive are outnumbered by the aggressively revealing -- legions of withering semistars who feel compelled to serve up their private torment for public consumption. Books and movies happily package the failed relationship, the traumatic childhood, the life of chemically enhanced misery. Catharsis boosts careers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Joan in Full Throat | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

...seems particularly fitting that Ingmar Bergman should have been born on July 14, for the Swedish director has always been something of a revolutionary. While Sweden's film industry had made a name for itself during the years of silent movies, producing actors like Greta Garbo and directors like Victor Sjostrom, it became practically unknown after the advent of sound. This was the state of affairs until Bergman single-handedly put Swedish film on the map again in the 1950s. Until his retirement in 1983, Bergman produced a corpus of films which marked him as one of the most important...

Author: By Joel VILLASENOR Ruiz, | Title: Bergman Receives Seal of Approval | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

...team goal this season was mostly t have fun and to see what we could do,' sophomore Greta Steffenson said. "Beating Princeton was a goal but it was more important to have fun and do our best...

Author: By Cara E. Abdulrazak, | Title: W.Tankers Overcome Odds | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

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