Which actor had the piano player's role in Casablanca?
If Dooley Wilson is your answer, you are In at Harvard, at least with the undergraduates. Humphrey Bogart is their newest major. At the Brattle Theater last week, after 15,000 viewers had seen 47 showings of 14 Bogey movies, the tenth Humphrey Bogart Festival ended. Harvard's Bogey men knew their subject so well that they could tell within weeks when any picture of their hero had been taken. The yardstick is his receding hairline.
Essence of Cool. Bogart's side-o-mouth repartee has become the canon vernacular of Harvard Yard, and anyone who doesn't...