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...William Faulkner talked about modern novelists in his Nobel speech and how they have to deal with conflicts of the heart, with pride, and love, and lust. And it seems here in Something Happened you're dealing with nothing more than a kind of middle-class angst...
...began to read about the South a great deal and to talk to people about it constantly. I sought out the company of other Southerners, most of whom felt the same was as I did about Harvard. I thought of the South then as being the land of Faulkner--old, subtle, deep, more concerned with ways of living than with achievement. It seemed to me a region haunted by failure and fading beauty--and Harvard, the center of success, was completely alien...
...movies you'd ever hope to see. Humphrey Bogart stars as Philip Marlow, the ubiquitous private eye created by novelist Raymond Chandler and recreated by many an actor--though none so well as Bogart himself. Howard Hawks made this film in 1946, Betty Bacall and Dorothy Malone costar. William Faulkner took Chandler's novel, cleaned it up a bit and made its story even more obscure, and turned it into a screenplay. The L.A. shots are pretty good...
Churchill, Stalin, De Gaulle, Marshall, Hemingway, Faulkner, Picasso, MacArthur, DiMaggio, Joe Louis, all seemed to have been around forever and to have a limitless future. There was no room for small figures in the pantheon. An entire generation retreated into a posture of silence, pursuing their desires down a bland alley. Pop culture-film, comics, records and below all, TV-became the national pacifier...
...Have and Have Not, beginning its run on Wednesday, is the first blast in the Brattle's famed month-long festival of Bogart's best. Howard Hawks made this with Bogie and Becall in 1944, using William Faulkner's screenplay of a Hemingway novel. If that line-up isn't strong enough for you, you must be a mouse with a glandular condition. The film's plot--a vaguely confusing story about gun-running--is mildly compelling and tangentially political. This is the confrontation between the matured Bogie and the teen-aged Lauren Bacall. She's just as tough-assed...