Word: bogarting
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...wouldn't have minded if they put something intelligent in my mouth, but it sounded like third-rate beatnik poetry." Adds Novelist Ken Kesey, another friend of the trio: "I believe in dead rights, that no one has a right to mess with a guy, use Humphrey Bogart to sell batteries on TV, just because he's dead...
...reader is constantly aware-as the men in her later life must have been-that Bacall was, and to some extent always will be, Bogie's Baby. When they met in 1944 while co-starring in To Have and Have Not, she was 19 and he was 44. Bogart was unhappily married to a woman noted for her drinking and violent temper, so the courtship was stealthily conducted in trailers and friends' boats...
...screen Bogart and Bacall caused a chemical reaction rivaled only by that of Tracy and Hepburn. The start was not promising: "He [Howard Hawks] said he thought he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, 'Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart -yucch...
...national morale and propaganda effort, the Garden of Allah life does not appear to have been greatly curtailed. The West Coast version of Stage Door Canteen took place at Cole Porter's house, where "he always had a few soldiers who had no place to go." Bogart did his part in the Coast Guard. Once a week he cruised the coastline off Balboa, keeping an eye peeled for the Japanese. Never have...
...standard warnings about the danger of Communist witch hunts. But mainly she clicks off the events and people in her life with the diligent rhythms of the Twentieth Century Limited, which she had boarded in 1943 to start her film career. The exception is when she recounts Bogart's stoic struggle with terminal cancer. Here her prose becomes spare and piercing: "I sat with him, had coffee-he still couldn't forget the night before. I asked him if he felt better. 'It's always better in the daylight.' Sun day School was short...