Word: bogarting
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...Miami ask this Tony Montana where he picked up his pretty good English, and Tony, a Cuban washed ashore in the 1980 wave of 125,000 refugees, smiles up at them roguishly and says, "My father ta'e me to the movies. I watch the guys like Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, I learn how to spe' from those guys. I li'e those guys." To each his own American dream. Tony (Al Pacino) and his pal Manolo (Steven Bauer) have different takes on that vision. Manny has a modest, ranch-house version: "I'd like...
That reputation is built on both its homey atmosphere and fresh beef. Bartley explains. First there are the posters--"Bedtime for Brezhnev," the Marx Brothers, and Humphrey Bogart miniatures. And of course the burgers: for just a few dollars, students can choose between a thick, juicy "General Hospital" (guaranteed to get you hooked); the "Nancy Reagan," served on Bartley's best silver; or an "E.T. Burger" complete with genuine Reese's Pieces...
Club Casablanca (40 Brattle St.): From Mexico to North Africa, Casa B's is probably where Rick--that's Humphrey Bogart, for the uninitiated--would hang out if he came to Cambridge. Nowhere she will you lie back in a cushioned wicker chair, whiskey in hand, with a piano player tickling the ivories in the corner of the room. His name isn't Sam, but he'll play it again and again if you want...
...France's Valerie Kaprisky plays the uprooted thrill seeker with the same air of being stunned by the outrageous message her nerve ends are sending to her brain. The major difference between the films is Gere's characterization. Jean-Paul Belmondo played the petty crook as a Bogart clone, sardonic and dour. Gere takes his beat from Jerry Lee Lewis records. He is an instinctive anarchist moving to a wild rock pulse, and such thoughts as he has are supplied by Silver Surfer, the comic-book character. That, in particular, is a superb invention, giving the film...
...quitter. He never seemed to stand a chance, but always continued the fight, often with success one could never have imagined. It seems fitting that, as one tribute notes, one of his favorite, film moments was a scene from The African Queen in which Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart emerge from an unnavigable jungle river. Told that the stream is clearly impassible, the feisty Hepburn raises her head and replies. "Nevertheless..." It is a word that applies well to the tragically truncated life and efforts of Allard Lowenstein...