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Bogey to Norman. This is Vidal's personal notion as well. He firmly believes that the screen, not literature, shaped his generation of writers. "Without Bogart," he says, "there could be no Norman Mailer. Without George Arliss," he adds with a Disraeliish gleam, "there wouldn't have been...
...complicated issues they raise, and sideswipe their own construct at the halfway mark. The Graduate rapidly degenerates into frenetic melodramatics, ending in the all-too-frequent last minute chase, a triumph of love-over-everything guaranteed to warm even the hearts of a Brattle Theatre audience during the Bogart festival. Safe in the back of a bus from the irate witnesses to their elopement, Benjamin and Elaine stop grinning and stare ahead, each considering for the first time the seriousness of their act and the problems ahead; Nichols' muting of the otherwise conventional happy ending adds some honesty...
...some interest to members of his immediate family, and the film may appeal to boosters of Miami Beach, which has seldom sparkled so prettily as it does here in Panavision-DeLuxe. Others are likely to find the movie nothing more than a blatantly inept, uncredited remake of Humphrey Bogart's 1946 The Big Sleep...
That Sinatra is no Bogart is hardly news. What is more to the point is that neither Screen Writer Richard Breen nor Director Gordon Douglas affords him much opportunity to be Sinatra, an attractive enough role under proper auspices. Instead, he sleepwalks through the baroque entanglements of a plot involving a millionaire's daughter in hot water, some jewelry stolen and forged, and a veritable menagerie of dope addicts, lesbian strippers, crooked nightclub owners, exasperated cops and good-hearted lushes...
...Sullivan's product sells chiefly because it is first with the best. His first show, in 1948, introduced a young comedy team named Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Since then, he has presented the U.S. TV debut of such performers as Edith Piaf, Clark Gable, Maria Callas, Humphrey Bogart, Jackie Gleason, Marian Anderson, Julie Andrews, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, and the Beatles, not to mention such oddities as Liberace and Rise Stevens singing...