Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Keaton's whole career, in fact, has been spent in convincing herself-nobody else ever seems to have doubted her -that she is a gifted actress. In 1968, when she auditioned for the original Broadway version of Play It Again, Sam, Allen's comic tribute to Humphrey Bogart, she was, she says with double underlining, "just sick. There were all these other women there to try out for the part, and I was scared to death." And she probably could not have walked on to do her bit-if it wasn't so obvious that Allen...
...When I'd run out of money I'd come back to New York and take whatever job I could, editing, sound, until I got enough to go back," she says. Her uncle is Murray Burnett, who wrote a play called Rick's Place, which later became Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart, and earning Burnett the grand sum of $8,000. "Later he wrote a book called Hickory Stick, didn't copyright it, and they made it into Blackboard Jungle. He didn't get a penny for it." Kopple shakes her head...
...Citizen Kane and John Huston, who produced this hard-boiled masterpiece on his first feature assignment for Warner Brothers. Like Welles, Huston grew up around the greasepaint. And like Welles, Huston came to films with a gleeful yet prodigiously discriminating eye for characature and atmosphere-creating jargon. He handles Humphrey Bogart perfectly in the role of Sam Spade--by letting Bogart do Bogart, but without the "sentimantalist" soft spots of Rick in Casablanca or the nervousness of the hunted criminal in Petrified Forest. Bogart is nothing more nor less than leather-skinned in this role: cool, jaded, manipulative. Dashiell Hammit...
...this script, could make neither heads nor tails of the plot-line and got in touch with novelist Raymond Chandler for some clues. "Beat's me if I can figure the story out," Chandler said. Maybe your luck will be better. Or maybe you won't much care, since Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, as the undauntable Philip Marlowe and the seductive older sister, make for such an entertaining romantic tandem as to make the detective element perhipheral. Maybe Chandler should take the credit--but, like Altman's The Long Goodbye, this film manages to be technically flawed and almost...
...their lives; the atmosphere is caught in a song written in the '30s, "which Side Are You On?" The enemy is the outside, the unseen menace of Duke Power. As the leader of the strikers tells the company's president, a man who bears a striking resemblance to Hubert Humphrey (D-Monn.), "KWell I tell you one thing Mr. Horn--I'm gonna be right there on that goddam picket line looking at you.... just as long as it takes...