You just put your lips together and blow.” Both BBC World
Service and Voice of America chose that line to play a recording of this
morning, when they reported the death of Lauren Bacall. It’s from her first
film, ‘To Have and Have Not’, based on the Hemingway story. In the film we can
watch Humphrey Bogart, always a sucker for a coquettish young girl — Bacall was
twenty then — become totally besotted with her.
Personally I think the bar scene between them in ‘The Big
Sleep’, where they use a witty and sometimes quite raunchy exchange of
horse-racing double-entendres to work out whether their relationship will
remain strictly business or might become something else, shows the now slightly
older Bacall’s talents better.
I was going to go on to compare the merits of Beeb World
Service and VOA news coverage, but I must remember Honey-boy’s advice to keep
blog entries short. Tomorrow perhaps.
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