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...Freud (Sir Alec Guinness) pops up from time to time as Benjamin's mystical mentor, constantly reminding him of his breaches in psychiatric practice as well as his own unstable state of mind. Freud's witty, satirical comments do not ring true, though; instead, they remind us of Humphrey Bogart's advice to Woody Allen throughout Play It Again, Sam. Similar takeoffs from other films dot the rest of Lovesick as well, including Moore's sequences of drunkenness that mirror those in Arthur two years...
...version, civilization was dressed in an off-white suit: Victor Laszlo, played by Paul Henreid. Henreid is still alive. So, for that matter, is Ronald Reagan, whom Jack Warner originally wanted for the part of Victor. (All wrong, too American, as wholesome as a quart of milk.) But Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman and Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet and Claude Rains and Conrad Veidt are all dead. The movie they made has achieved a peculiar state of permanence. It has become something more than a classic. It is practically embedded in the collective American unconscious...
...provides a consistent pattern. Yes, but why can't Roper ask, "Well, which is it-do you get most of your news from TV or from the papers?" That would be forcing an answer and lead to impure results, says the Television Information Office, which hires Roper. Leo Bogart, a sociologist who heads the Newspaper Advertising Bureau, agrees that Roper measures the public's "perception" of where it gets the news, even if the public is wrong...
Still, "perceptions" of TV dominance, erroneous or not, do have consequences. Bogart thinks it wrong for newspapers, particularly declining ones, to copy television's emphasis on personalities and features, to cut news items to car-radio brevity, or to favor routine "chicken dinner" local coverage. Major stories of national and international importance, he argues, have most impact on newspaper readers...
Thinking that the public must be in great need of cut-rate sleuths, Deanna Short, a former policewoman, opened the Cheap Detective Agency a year ago in Anaheim, Calif. She borrowed the name from the title of a 1978 Neil Simon movie in which a bumbling Peter Falk spoofs Bogart. For $15 an hour, Short's 22 male and female investigators will shadow a wayward wife, track down a runaway teen or collar an embezzler. The agency has already had nearly 1,000 clients. When a Los Angeles retailer hired her firm to crack an internal theft ring...