Word: bogarting
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...trying to satisfy his sophisticated clientele, Harvey says he has run up against the tyrannical and ignorant distribution practices of the large companies. The Brattle Theater publishes a list of over a hundred desired films which cannot be shown, including most Garbo, Chaplin, and the Marx Brothers, and Bogart's African Queen...
...CRIMSON, Harvard's own Dwight Macdonald, rarely reviews television series. Perhaps, out of deference to the Lampoon, we should have watched The Munsters, but we never cared for Yvonne deCarlo. Speaking of television, we think of escape, and our first thoughts must turn to Bogart. Everyone knows how and where Bogey was revived, but last year, we witnessed the resurrection of another escape. Literally dusting off an old can of film, the Brattle lifted "The Batman" out of a celluloid cemetery. Shortly thereafter, someone in film-land (who undoubtedly had read the Time article about camp) spliced this 1943 serial...
...across the stage. The timing matches Bankhead's; the zany movements beat Bea Lillie's. It is just as nobody predicted: Lauren Bacall can pack them in the theater the way she packed them in the movies back in the '40s when she was Mrs. Humphrey Bogart. "Looks like I'm one hell of a Broadway draw," she drawls...
...late '40s, Bogie and Baby became Hollywood's most imitated couple. Men held their cigarettes with all four fingers, Bogie-style; women made their voices husky. In 1956, Bogart's persistent illness was diagnosed as cancer, but Bacall resolutely kept on entertaining all their old friends, rarely left the house. "She's my wife, and nurse," Bogie said shortly before his death. "So she stays home. Maybe that's the way you tell the ladies from the broads in this town...
...released within the last year. "The paperback ones are written by hungry guys trying to get in on the madness and make a buck," she complains. "And the hard-covers aren't a hell of a lot better." The one she has hopes for was written by Old Bogart Buddy Joe Hyams. Due for publication in mid-'66, it will sport an introduction by Bacall herself...