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...become Kitsch to discuss the mystique of Humphrey Bogart movies. Film critics, psychologists, even Soc Rel majors have delved into the emotional response of a weary student to the stimulus of brutality, wit, and sensuosity that is the Bogie image. Suffice it to say that a Bogart evening at the Brattle during exam period with a packed, unruly, and howling partisan crowd is an experience that no Harvard undergraduate should miss...
...looked for the right big picture, found it in 1951 on a shelf in the Warner Bros, story department. Spiegel dusted off The African Queen, surprised filmland by casting it not with regular types like Robert Taylor and Betty Grable, but with a combination considered far-out indeed-Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Queen became the first Spiegel film to get an Oscar (Bogart's), and others trod hard on its golden heels: Waterfront won eight, River Kwai brought the total to 16. Lawrence made...
About a year after John Dillinger was gunned down by FBI agents outside a Chicago theater in 1934, Actor Humphrey Bogart scored his first Broadway success as the gunman in Robert Sherwood's The Petrified Forest. Dillinger and Bogart looked remarkably alike: both were small and wiry, both had a kind of insolent, scarred good looks, each cultivated a distinctive trademark-Bogart a toothy wince and Dillinger a sarcastic, lopsided smile. Coming to public attention when they did, both became national idols...
Radcliffe apartment dwellers even find domestic chores, within limits, fun--especially when it comes to preparing a dinner party. And cake baking, although not so good, perhaps, as Humphrey Bogart flics, has turned out to be wonderful for exam period procrastination...
When biology bores and philosophy palls, there is no cure-all like a quick trip to a Bogart movie, where tensions can be worked out by that funny little man who hits back so hard when he gets pushed too far. And no callow youth is really a Harvard Man if he has never seen Casablanca-- the all-time hunk of cinema hokum--during exam period...