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...Bogart, executive vice president of the Newspaper Advertising Bureau, thinks that most major markets can support two competing newspapers if merchants wake up to their self-interest. Instead, most advertising decisions are made not locally but on Madison Avenue or at national headquarters of local department stores and supermarkets. There, decisions are reached, says Bogart, "with single-minded impersonal efficiency. The second paper gets dropped if the advertiser is satisfied that the dominant paper gives him 60% of the target audience." Does the disappearance of the second paper matter to anyone, except in an anguishing way to its owners...
...sees this as an atrophy of "the number of channels of civic concern." Official wrongdoing or shocking conditions in local schools or hospitals often require persistent and exhaustive reporting. "What are the odds, if you have one paper instead of two, that it will go after the story?" Bogart asks. Of course, local television does investigations, which can be effective when the evidence is largely visual. Too often, however, such stories are mere exchanges of charges and countercharges in interviews by news personalities with too little command of the subject. A newspaper is much better at giving enough facts...
Peter Lorre: You despise me, don't you? Humphrey Bogart: Well, if I gave you any thought, I probably would...
...with Mickey Rooney, and A Doll's House, with Julie Harris and Jason Robards. The last two shows in the series have not yet been chosen. The producers are still searching for such treasures as the kinescope of a 1955 version of The Petrified Forest, which teamed Humphrey Bogart, who had played the original Duke Mantee, with a new Gabrielle-Lauren Bacall. Gold must have looked like brass in those days, so casually were now priceless kinescopes discarded...
...lover who can be one with all the personas Katerina has created--a knowing idealist, a lover and an admirer of her work. And, impossibly, he does come. His name is Gosha (Alexei Batalov) and he is as too-good-to-be-true and as utterly captivating as Bogart ever was. He is a fascinating character and a joy to watch. He is a man with a subtle sense of humor and an extraordinary sense of confidant cool. His romance with Katerina, their trials and their reuniting, makes up the last part of the film and it is here that...