Word: largo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first private eye movie from Hollywood, established the "film noir" in America for the next ten years, and Bogart as the prototype Twentieth Century man. Two masterpieces, Casablanca (1943) and Big Sleep (1946), and a number of clever near-misses like To Have and Have Not (1945), Key Largo (1947), and Dark Passage (1947) brighten the canon of Bogie films in the 'Forties, which includes a good number of dull patriotic epics (Passage to Marseilles) and gangster potboilers. During the making of the cinema landmarks, a famous team of Bogart, Lauren Bacall ("If you want anything, just whistle."), Sydney Greenstreet...
...empty stage suggestive of a court or an arena. The music begins with atonal violin glissandos so delicately feline that the sight of the first dancer coming on stage is a silent shock-like a slipper thrown at a cat. Five girls dance alone in a ritualistic largo, then five men replace them, moving with the elaborate logic of karate fighters. Each gesture is answered with architectural symmetry, each movement implies a countermovement...
...mangrove stood out black against Key Largo's garish blue sky," the novel begins, and the readers can almost see the ghost of Humphrey Bogart standing under it, whistling for Lauren Bacall. Josee goes off with a Chris-Craft skipper named Ricardo, then presents her husband with a cake bearing a single burning candle-"to celebrate the first time I've been unfaithful to you." They separate in New York, after roaming Harlem until dawn and finishing off the adventure in "a small, deserted bar on Broadway"-a foreign fictional figment which, as every bag-eyed nightclubber knows...
...Senators Barry Goldwater and John Tower. Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd said he would not come if Walker could not. Columnist David Lawrence wrote that he "doesn't participate in rallies of this kind." Ex-President Herbert Hoover dedined to interrupt a fishing trip to Key Largo. Film Cowboy John Wayne stayed back at the ranch in Hollywood. Young Americans for Freedom had invited them all, but went ahead anyway-and last week packed Manhattan's Madison Square Garden with a crowd of 18,000 at $1 to $25 apiece, who cheered through four hours...
Married. Jason Robards Jr., 39, Broadway luminary of Toys in the Attic and The Disenchanted; and Cinemactress Lauren (The Big Sleep, Key Largo) Bacall, 36, widow of Humphrey Bogart; he for the third time, she for the second; in Ensenada, Mexico, after being balked by legal obstacles (among them: lack of Bogie's death certificate) on a seven-week hotel-hop of London, Paris, Vienna and Las Vegas...