Status Updates From Bogart

Almost finished with this staggeringly great biography.

Sans back notes, this is really only 60 pages out from completion.

Bogart, a principled American dragged through the mud by the Right-Wing HUAC fascists, forced to recant his rights by his own studio at peril to his family and reputation. Same shit today. Fuck ya'll who've supported authoritarian lawbreakers, esp. the asshole in the White House.

Quite an eventful last few chapters, the final fury of the Bogie-Methot breakup, the marriage to Bacall, the tortured production of The Big Sleep, Bogie's forays into left-wing politics. My dude is woke as fuck. Great bio. Proceeding apace!

Bogie meets Bacall, and fireworks ensue. This is pretty much all I'd hoped for in a Bogart biography. Really loving this.

I like that Sperber is being super fair to Mayo Methot, even showing her good qualities despite how horrible she and Bogie were to each other.

Murray Burnett, who wrote the original play of Casablanca, came back from Germany to France and nobody wanted to hear what he had to say about what was going on there. Kind of like the quiet ones around this website.