Word: bogarting
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...epics put their audience through this needless lifeboat drill, establishing characters whose main function is to be devoured or drowned. This applies here even to Billy, a tough loner with a sweet spot. Billy could be his own Bogart festival. At first he is the grizzled boat captain in To Have and Have Not; then he's greedy Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, risking his mates' lives to make the big score; finally, he nears the daft steeliness of The Caine Mutiny's Captain Queeg. Clooney bends his genial machismo to these darker shadings...
...Bogart and Bacall. Tracy and Hepburn. Homer and Marge. Rock- well and Conger? It's doubtful that last pair will linger long in the hearts and minds of the public, despite the fact that their entire courtship was broadcast, for our amusement and amazement, on national television. Of all the women in all the world--or at least of the 50 finalists willing to trade dignity for fast money--he chose her. Isn't that romantic...
DIED. SAM JAFFE, 98, pioneering agent and producer in Hollywood's Golden Age; in Los Angeles. A movie mogul by his mid-20s, Jaffe opened his own talent agency in 1935 and soon had a stable of stars that included Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Richard Burton...