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Bogart
Author / Illustrator: A. M. Sperber & Eric Lax
Publisher / Date: William Morrow 1997
Format: thick trade paperback; 676 pages
Condition: Very good; clean unmarked text; corner creases to half-title and title pages; light edge wear to covers
Contents: filmography; index; profuse endnotes; bibliography; 16 pages of vintage black and whtie photos.
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| Synopsis | A biography of the famous Hollywood actor, written jointly by A.M. Sperber ("Murrow: His Life and Times") and Eric Lax (the biographer of Woody Allen).
| | Size | | Length: | 676 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in. | | Width: | 5.5 in. | | Thickness: | 1.8 in. | | Weight: | 32.0 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | Drawing on more than 200 interviews and years of research, the authors probe every aspect of Bogart's career and personality, from his turbulent emotional life and loves to the classic roles that made him immortal. of photos.
| | Industry reviews | "The Sperber and Lax book provides a stronger sense of the wit and sass of Bogart's Hollywood world. It is further enhanced by multiple interviews from new sources, including childhood friends who provide firsthand views of Bogart's allegedly unloving parents."
New York Times Book Review - Jeanine Basinger (04/20/1997)
"No one had much right to expect that 'Bogart' would be an immediate triumph, but I believe that it is. So rich in its research, so compelling in its writing, it is an absorbing human story that reveals an exact understanding of the motion picture business in the age of Humphrey Bogart, who died 40 years ago."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - David Thomson (04/06/1997)
"The last word of a legend."
other - Jack Miles
"On the set, before and after the action, Ms. Sperber and Mr. Lax capture the man Huston was talking about."
New York Times - Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (04/17/1997)
"[Sperber's] astonishing passion for detail clears up many puzzles that remain cloudy in the Meyers biography."
Washington Post Book World - Robert Bly (05/11/1997)
"...a longer and much more detailed account of Bogart's life....Thanks to Sperber's exhaustive research and Lax's own expertise in film history, the book gives a full and especially harrowing account of Bogart's political activities during the Hollywood red scare of the early fifties."
Tribby
"Dramatic, historically informative, and elegiac, this exemplifies an honorable standard in the uneven world of film biographies."
Faust
"The authors of this fine life of a fine actor have avoided both the idolatry and the denigration that so often disfigure Hollywood biographies."
Cronkite
"Michael Mitchell's precise reading is consistently clear but sometimes stilted and unnatural due to his tendency to overenunciate. His fastidious vocal characterizations for the few quotations distract rather than enhance. Still, the merits of the book surpass the limits of the reading. G.H."
(02/20/2000)
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