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...couple King chose for his cinéma vérité exegesis had been his friends for almost five years. Billy Edwards, 42 years old, is a Toronto adman who had just moved into a cushy suburban-modern house with his wife Antoinette, their infant son Bogart and the family dog, Merton. A cinematographer and a soundman, under King's direction, spent ten weeks in the Edwards' home, arriving before breakfast and not leaving until everyone had gone to bed. They filmed everything: meals and holidays, affection and indifference, disagreements and brawls. The result is a perfect...
...first movie that Ben-Gurion, 83, had ever sat all the way through. Said he: "It's almost like it was." ··· If Katharine Hepburn could make it in Coco, why not Lauren Bacall in Applause? So the voice coaches are hard at work, and Bogart's widow will open next April as the song-and-dance star of a new musical. The hoofing will be easier: Bacall misspent 13 years studying to be a ballerina...
...unavailability of many Bogart films, the Brattle will be able to present only two pictures, The African Queen and Beat the Devil . In past years Harvard audiences could view 17 or 18 Bogey movies, including such all-time greats as Casablanca, High Sierra, and The Maltese Falcon...
Rumor has it that some individual is in the process of purchasing the exclusive rights to all the Bogart flicks. Television networks are also still suspect...
...literary style is so conversational that he is at his best when he retells a story he wrote in one of his books. His extempore dialogue interspersed with "doncha know" and "isn't that so." is witty and engaging. His gruff, gravelly voice, not unlike that of Huphrey Bogart, conveys a tone of ironic detachment which helps in sensing the tone of his books...