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...that helped anchor the unforced ebullience of her personality. When a film required it, she could really dig in her heels. Billy Wilder's Sabrina, which quickly followed Roman Holiday, showed her torn between the smooth bachelor blandishments of William Holden and the tempered, literally businesslike attentions of Humphrey Bogart. Hepburn made the right choice -- the heart's choice -- as she would continue to do in all her best-remembered movies. Past the sorcery of her sensuality, with its inviolate innocence, and past her great beauty, Hepburn wooed and won her audience because she always played a character whose heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Film's Fairest Lady: Audrey Hepburn 1929-1993 | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

...movie is silliest when show-biz celebrities parade on and off the stage as if it were Impressionists Night at the Improv. Sinatra gets marital advice from Humphrey Bogart, rushes to Sammy Davis Jr.'s bedside after his car accident and cavorts with the Rat Pack in a steam room at the Sands Hotel. The scenes between Sinatra and the Kennedy family are the phoniest of all, but they do open up the touchy subject of Sinatra's mob links. During the 1960 presidential campaign, Joe Kennedy asks Sinatra for help with "our friends in Chicago who control the unions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crooning To The Top | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...good romance. What elevates it above this level is its gifted and star-studded cast. Sabrina proves itself just another jewel in William Holden's cap of acting talent. Here he fits perfectly into the role of a spoiled, dashing, rich heir to a plastics corporation. His brother (Humphrey Bogart) is the more interesting sibling, combining a clever wit held back only by a self-punishing impulse to work hard and keep long hours as the chairman of the company. Enter Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn), daughter of Fairchild, the family chauffeur. Sho captures the hearts of both brothers and provides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reel to Reel: | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

...since Bogart the cat died has The Crimson lost such a standard piece of our tradition and lore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Long Live the What | 2/14/1992 | See Source »

...everyone is swept up in the excitement. A review in the trade publication Advertising Age, while admiring the special effects, argues that the commercial's hyperkinetic promotional jingle "obscures the lyrics and thus also the explanation for why -- apart from sheer gee-whizardry -- Cagney, Satchmo and Bogart are resurrected." In short, it's not enough for commercials to showcase creativity -- they've got to move the goods as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing Ghosts in the Commercial | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

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