Word: bogarting
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...lives identify with him," says Joseph Campbell, professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence. The antihero, suggests Campbell, is a disease of New York, "a city which is a psychological calamity and which has no connection with the land America." In a very real way, the land America prefers Humphrey Bogart and James Bond. Bogart demonstrates the belief that a man can be tough but tender, ugly but sexy. The Bond syndrome suggests a yearning for the old-fashioned action hero, free from conventional fetters. Says Sociologist Marshall Fishwick of the University of Delaware: "The playboy is a cowboy...
HARPER. As a private eye focused on a kidnaping case, Paul Newman revives the Bogart tradition in lively style, with seedy-to-sumptuous local color supplied by Julie Harris, Arthur Hill and Lauren Bacall...
...everyone except its agile leading man, who is still one of filmdom's sprightliest actors. But not sprightly enough, perhaps, to carry off a role that requires him almost simultaneously to be like Harold Lloyd on a high wire, Buster Keaton pratfalling in a Chinese opera, and Humphrey Bogart doing a striptease in drag...
...Harper. See it grow. See it complicate itself. And see it imitate everything from The Big Sleep to Charade, with Paul Newman imitating everyone from Bogart to Belmondo...
HARPER. A bleary private eye (Paul Newman) seems to view the world through the bottom of his drinking glass much as Bogart used to do, but Director Jack Smight revives a grand old tradition in slick '60s style. Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner and Lauren Bacall are among the beautiful-but-damned folk at hand...