Word: humphreyism
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...addition, he said the Brattle will inaugurate two new “pseudo-annual” awards: the Bogie Award, named after Humphrey Bogart, to be given to an actor who has made “a distinctive contribution to screen history,” and the Orson Award, named after Orson Welles, to be given to “someone behind the scenes...
...from L.B.J.'s waning popularity and from Eugene McCarthy's antiwar campaign, had urged him not to run. But Robert F. Kennedy proved a formidable sprinter. For 80 days he campaigned relentlessly, and by the day of the California primary, a must-win for Kennedy to seriously challenge Hubert Humphrey, his body was cracking. The night before, he had been too weary to finish a speech in San Diego, and by the time he reached Los Angeles, he appeared to be running on fumes...
DIED. ORVILLE FREEMAN, 84, ex-Governor of Minnesota and Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; of complications from Alzheimer's disease; in Minneapolis. After supporting Hubert Humphrey's failed bid, he gave Kennedy's nominating speech at the 1960 Democratic Convention. Later, in his White House post, he expanded food aid to the poor and promoted aid to developing nations...
...Brattle Theatre marks its 50th anniversary this week, and whether its marquee shows classic names like Humphrey Bogart and Ingmar Bergman, or newer ones such as Maggie Gyllenhaal and David Lynch, its tiny lights still attract film buffs from far and wide...
Brattle co-director Ivy Moylan notes various ways in which Harvard has affected the development of the theater, starting in the fifties when “Bogie films”—films starring Humphrey Bogart—were played during reading period and a “Bogie cult” started among students...