|
Bogart: In Search of My Father |  | Authors: Stephen Humphrey Bogart, Gary Provost
Creator: Lauren Bacall
Publisher: Plume
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
Buy Used: $0.99
as of 3/18/2010 00:39 EDT details
You Save: $11.96 (92%)
New (4) Used (21) Collectible (2) from $0.99
Seller: awesomebooksusa
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 225733
Media: Paperback
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0452277043
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780452277045
ASIN: 0452277043
Publication Date: November 1, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Humphrey Bogart's son examines his father's life as an actor, a man, a husband, and a father, as he presents a picture of a man with a tough image that belied his ambitions and vulnerabilities. Reprint.
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 12
 Perfection December 21, 2009
Curtis F. Jarvis
Excelent seller. Fast transaction. Highest quality and all around perfection. I give them my highest rating. Thank you!
INFO ON BOGIE August 29, 2009
Kay's Husband (Virginia, U.S.A.)
I recently picked up this book at Goodwill for a 'song' wanting info on Bogie. Though enjoying Bogie's movies I don't consider myself a fan but I figure if you want to learn more on HB whom better to get the info from than his son. Hah! Turns out most fans will know as much or more than the son. So the son needed to do in depth homework just to write this book. After reading the book, my feeling is that the author seems to have always been an angry person, almost from birth, and this is on the whole, a somewhat angry book.
Still the book remains very readable, as with many of us SHB has been to college, allowing many elements of Bogart's life to adroitly come through, facts most readers may have read before, while offering new facts to others. I consider the book more in the 3-star range due to the recurrent, personal, and plaintive "poor me" statements, however, because other more solid, objective elements are included I up it to 4-stars.
It's tough to lose a parent at any time of life, (I've buried both mine) especially your father at age 8. Especially a legend of the silver screen, possibly still more famous now than in his lifetime. However, as the Bible says, once Bogie's allotted days were fulfilled, one just has to move on, life does that with or without Humphrey Bogart in the world. SHB either was unable or refused to do that, so he wasted much time fighting against the inevitable. The author states several times he is not a person of faith so faith could offer him little comfort, then or now, much to his great loss. So he resorted to much bad behavior mixed with drugs, and strangely he can seemingly still write of it with almost a chip-on-the-shoulder pride. With his lack of faith or much else he failed to ever see that his anger and unproductive behavior never did any harm whatsoever to Bogie, only to himself. Further much of his abhorrent behavior no doubt came from anger at Bogie's dying, when Bogie had no control whatever over the length of his days. Again according to Scripture, none of us ever do.
With his recent marriage and this book he says he now sees it all more clearly, finally got it together, hope so for his sake and those around him. Especially concerning his mother, for it is axiomatic mothers never ever give up on their children, ever. Though it seems quite clear he often gave up on her, just as with God though, she never deserted him. She was always there and remains there to this day. Hope he now sees that too, for he is indebted to Lauren Becall, and she seems mostly to have always been there if or when he wanted to turn to her.
I can recommend the book to readers interested in the Bogart-Becall years, yet most of the readers, especially fans, may already know most of what is in the book. Though the personal writings of Stephen Humphrey Bogart may be a catharsis of major import to him I doubt they will register as much with people who both had to mostly behave themselves or to always work constructively all their life to earn a living, never having the Bogart-Becall connections or other resources of SHB on which to rely.
Semper Fi.
 son of a legend... April 3, 2007
Kerry O. Burns
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I don't imagine any of us really know what it is like to be the son of a legend..the incredible pressure that must come with living up to your father..it sounds like a wonderful easy life but as Stephen Bogart let's us know it's not..a book full of anecdotes and stories, self-examination, a bit too much whining for my tastes but nevertheless some tasty morsels can be found in this book..
Would you like some cheese with that whine? November 14, 2006
foxylibrarian (Nashville, TN)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book is a collection of stores from interviews conducted by Stephen. Who, after a battle with cocaine, removing the chip from his shoulder, and maturing, decided to find out who his fater was. The book is a fast read, has a few interesting stories, and the pics are good. Glad I checked it out of the library and didn't pay for it.
Insightful tale of how Bogart's son came to terms with his fame December 31, 2005
Blaine Greenfield (Belle Meade, NJ)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Heard BOGART: IN SEARCH OF MY FATHER, written and
read by Stephen Humphrey Bogart . . . his son was only eight
when he died and for a long time, it was difficult for him to
deal with his legendary father . . . only with the encouragement
of his famous mother, Lauren Bacall, was he finally able to
come to terms with some of the anger he felt toward his father.
I'm still not quite sure that I understand this feeling; it's almost
as if he blamed his father for dying . . . however, Stephen
Bogart did a good job of researching his father Humphrey, and
he shares many amusing anecdotes that I not heard previously.
In addition, I enjoyed reading about how Bogart and Bacall
met and fell in love.
BOGART: IN SEARCH OF MY FATHER gave me the impression
that Humphrey had no idea how to raise his children, but it
was clear that he did love them . . . Stephen Bogart now
appreciates this fact, too.
Showing reviews 1-5 of 12
|
|
|
CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS SITE COMES FROM AMAZON SERVICES LLC. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME.
Proud member of the Celebrity Pro Network. Make sure you check out these other great sites:
Lyrics Database
Celebrity Blog
Celebrity Thing
Celebrity PC
Latest Celebrity Photos
Web Portal
Travel Photos
Quotes
Flash Games
|
Is there a better
price available?
Find out:
|
|
|
|
