Word: bogarting
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...believer. On tracks like What Ever Happened? and Automatic Stop his voice rises, the words get clearer and for a moment he aches in a surprisingly moving way. With his half-closed eyes and half-closed heart, Casablancas is the closest thing there is to a rock-'n'-roll Bogart. While the lead singer is emoting, or not, the band is grooving with a ruthless efficiency. Is This It was criticized for mining riffs from Television, the Velvet Underground and Iggy Pop, and there's no ignoring the influences when drummer Fabrizio Moretti (also known as Drew Barrymore's boyfriend...
...Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld-who is beginning to resemble Humphrey Bogart's unhinged Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny-lost his temper last week at the news that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was, finally, trying to coordinate the government's reconstruction efforts in Iraq. He said he hadn't been consulted in advance. He implied that Rice's effort wasn't very important, anyway. Rumors of a Pentagon boycott of the process began to bubble when the political, economic and counterterrorism group meetings were either canceled or held without civilian Pentagon participation. An NSC source offered the plausible argument that...
...production feels weakest when the spontaneity and naturalness of the actors comes into conflict with the excessive staging and overly articulate, practiced movement. This brand of staging may be more appropriate, though arguably still overbearing, for the allegorical hyperbole of a show like La Dispute, as directed by Anne Bogart earlier this season at the American Repertory Theatre. But in this show, we’re instead left with the impression of a well-rehearsed and manipulated performance, even while the premise of the play is on the organic and almost desperate nature of the characters’ acting...
...addition, he said the Brattle will inaugurate two new “pseudo-annual” awards: the Bogie Award, named after Humphrey Bogart, to be given to an actor who has made “a distinctive contribution to screen history,” and the Orson Award, named after Orson Welles, to be given to “someone behind the scenes...
...Brattle Theatre marks its 50th anniversary this week, and whether its marquee shows classic names like Humphrey Bogart and Ingmar Bergman, or newer ones such as Maggie Gyllenhaal and David Lynch, its tiny lights still attract film buffs from far and wide...