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Article: Bogart: A Life in Hollywood.
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- June 1, 1997
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There are thirty months to go until the centenary of Humphrey Bogart's birth, but already two books on him have been published this year: Jeffrey Meyers's Bogart: A Life in Hollywood (Houghton Mifflin) and A.M. Sperber and Eric Lax's superior Bogart (William Morrow), these following Stephen Humphrey Bogart's 1995 memoir about his father. Next year the postal service will issue a Bogart stamp.
Bogart was born six days before the end of the last century. Why has he remained intact as an icon in the dwindling years of this one? Why is he so timeless as time goes by? It was in the early '60s, when young radicals were inuring themselves to the treacheries of the era, ...