Word: bogarting
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...order to "sell magazines." He called TIME journalists "smooth-faced Boy Scouts" and said that witnesses from the magazine indulged in "self-adulation" when they praised David Halevy's reporting career. As for Halevy himself, an Israeli citizen, Gould derided his war record and called him a "Humphrey Bogart playing Ernie Pyle." He contended that Halevy fabricated the story and that his colleagues at TIME printed it against their better judgment...
...zinger, "I put the fear of me in you," and Talent Agent Harry O. Tophet's devilish irreverence, "He had to close the big dining room up there." Tophet cuts a deal with a young songwriter (Ted Wass), offering fame in exchange for his soul. Director Paul Bogart's muzzy little comedy appropriately pivots on the Burns-Burns confrontation when Lucifer and the Lord play poker in Caesars Palace to win the yuppie Faustus. Oh, God! You Devil has a shopping-mall message: Don't do drugs or dream of fame; go home, be ordinary. If only...
...doing freelance work for the British Broadcasting Corp. in London, not long after coming down from Oxford. Using BBC typewriter and paper, the young Naipaul wrote: "Every morning when he got up Hat would sit on the banister of his back verandah and shout across, 'What happening there, Bogart?' " This small scene came from Trinidad and Port of Spain and the crowded, colorful street where Naipaul spent part of his childhood. In later years, with an established and growing reputation, Naipaul returned several times to Trinidad and environs. He looked up Bogart, the man who had inspired...
...probably be crucified," says Young, "but because of the controversy, it will probably be one of the highest-rated shows on television." In any case, viewers can always turn the color adjustment knob on their TV sets all the way down and go back to seeing Bogart in black-and-white. -By Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Jeff Gottlieb/Los Angeles and Beverley Slopen/Toronto
...years after he became a writer with his story about Bogart, Naipaul went to Venezuela to look up his first character. He leaves his Caracas hotel one morning to visit the old man in his village in the Orinoco delta. They have a pleasant lunch, but when Naipaul returns to Caracas he finds a telegram from Bogart, a note he had missed that morning, which asks him to cancel his visit. Maybe it should have been a signal to Naipaul that the thousands of air-miles and the hundreds of pages which have come between him and the room...