Word: bogartian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carving "FOOL" in his forearm with a razorblade. The scene is beautifully shot with relentlessly detached clinicism that is almost unbearable. In Lerner, Hunter has faithfully recorded the conventions of the French/American tough guy: his slovenlieness, his resistance, his attempt to be sphynxlike. But in the character's most Bogartian moment, a curl of the lip at an actor who is strutting out a characterization in front of the mirror in the Loeb green room, Lerner fails to convince us that he isn't posturing a bit himself. He, too, is fascinated by mirrors, particularly the fold-out, floor-length...
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