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Acting is by no means essential, of course. Actors have walked through movies before and still come out great. A Brando or a Bogart in a dumb macho role could breeze through, thinking of what he'll do after work, and still steal the show. They are great actors even when they're not, because they're screen actors-the closer the camera, the more vibes they transmit, naturally. Olivier couldn't sleep through a picture-his face isn't revealing enough, and he needs a stage of gestures and intense dialogue to make his talents felt. Steve McQueen...
Paranoia in a different shape turns up in The Caine Mutiny, a Dudley House offering at Lehman Hall. Humphrey Bogart plays the psychotic Captain Queeg, a petty tyrant with some strange habits. When you've seen the movie, you'll understand why at the end of Watergate top level aides were comparing Nixon to the ball-bearing-rolling skipper...
Baseball is no longer king in Boston as the Series has ended and life, including movie going, has returned to normal. Those whose tastes run to star-studded double features (and not a re-run of the sixth game) can catch either Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen (adventure on the Congo) and Treasure of the Sierra Madre (adventure south of the Border) at the Harvard Square Theatre or brave the Red Line to see Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail and Five Easy Pieces at Cinema...
...play is full of disturbed men who can't decide what role to play, who can't tell, as Thurber never could, whether they're coming or going. A would-be wife murderer cowers when she threatens him with a monkey wrench. Walter Mitty fantasizes that he is Bogart, Patton, and Dr. Christian Barnard, but his wife can't seem to take him seriously. Thurber himself appears, his world collapsing around him because, as usual, his publishers can't figure out where he lives among all his previous and present addresses...
...Midsummer's Night Dream, by the English playwright, Shakespeare, is shown every year in Lehman Hall by English 12, and it will probably outlive the Brattle's Bogart festival...