CineMaven wrote:Why don't you like Humphrey Bogart?
Gulp....
Ha.. NOW you've gone and done it..ha. I am cornered... I am suddenly having a flashback to the time I was 18 years old and my Grandma asked me why I did not like TOMATOES.. ha. (And the reason for my distaste for Bogart is VERY similar... and EQUALLY as embarrassing...ha.
(Oh.. forgive me, Ms Finnie for this interruption of your thread)
When I was younger, I made up my mind I did NOT like tomatoes... mainly because of the way they looked. I would EAT almost anything made out tomatoes.. (tomato sauce, soup, ketchup, etc) but I would not TOUCH a raw tomato w/ a ten foot pole. Once when I was in high school I even LIED to the post commanding general's wife (we lived on an army post) at a Red Cross Volunteer Luncheon. I was there representing YOUTH volunteers, and as I was carefully removing the tomato from my club sandwich I smiled politley and said, "Excuse me.. I'm allergic" HA!! But the truth was... I just did not WANT to even THINK about eating a slice of raw tomato....
So one day, (I was 18 yrs old by now) my Grandma tells me she is going to make BLT's for lunch.. and I say "Oh just give me a B and and L but leave off the T" and she comes back w/ "WHAT? You don't want tomato?" and I said, "No, I don't really like them". And she gives me the KILLER of all comebacks: "Well.. YOU'VE never tried them, have you?" UGH... HOW can you lie to your GRANDMA?? So she MADE me try that awful looking red slimy sliced up THING... and... I LOVED it. Fresh sliced, vine ripe tomatoes are among the BEST foods God ever created… OH, to think of all those wasted years… ha.
So.. what does this have to do with why I don't like Humphrey Bogart?? OH.. I just can't bare the thought of having to admit this... ha.. I NEVER liked the way he LOOKED (or sounded) when I was a kid.. so I decided I did not like HIM as an actor.. ha. And I have more or less avoided him ALL my life. (Sound familiar??) (OH.. and I am way, SO way much older than 18 now...ha... talk about wasted YEARS!!! I know... SHAMEFUL isn't it?????????????)
I have watched To Have and Have Not.. loved it. Sabrina... REALLY liked it a lot... and Dark Victory (admittedly.. he has a very small part, but I though he did OK) OH… and I forgot.. I DID see him in ONE more movie this year too… The Oklahoma Kid… and I LOVED to hate him in that one.. he was a VERY good bad guy… So I actually HAVE liked him in EVERY movie I have ever seen, (all 4 of them, ha.) But I just can’t seem to escape those childhood “prejudices”.
OH boy, I can hear you already… You are going to tell me I just need to think of him as that TOMATO I always neglected.. and the next time I see him in a movie… I need to leave him ON the sandwich and ENJOY… ha.
Alas… my ONE confession (about Casablanca) has left me feeling so… emotionally EXPOSED now.. ha. You have just heard one of my BEST kept “why I don’t like_____” secrets…ha. Oh the shame…
I think I need a BLT…
We now return you to your regularly scheduled Claude Rains Thread (again, Miss Finnie, you have my apologies)
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