Alternative Film Guide

Via the London Times:

"[Lauren] Bacall still finds acting as satisfying as ever. But she gets short-tempered about some of the fuss that surrounds it. ‘I love my profession. I have tremendous respect for it. What I don’t have respect for is the red carpet and the celebrity scene. It’s become a zoo. It’s so stupid. They ask you stupid questions [putting on a high-pitched girlie voice]: "What are you wearing?" Oh, Christ almighty!’

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"She is facing up to the facts of life for most octogenarians — that there’s an awful lot of death around when you get to that age. She’s lost both husbands and most of those older ‘dear friends’ (Katharine Hepburn, Frank Sinatra), and it doesn’t get any easier. Earlier at a press conference [at the Berlin Film Festival], a German journalist had asked her if she thought about death, and she had looked him up and down before saying: ‘You’re a cheerful fellow, aren’t you? Considering how close I am, don’t you think that’s a bit much?’ A few minutes later, she was talking about her earlier work and mentioned an Agatha Christie adaptation. She looked the unfortunate journalist in the eye and quipped: ‘It was called Appointment with Death. There. Just for you…’"

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Ann Sheridan Biographer Ray Hagen Discusses the 1940s Warner Bros. Star

Honorary Oscars Bypass Women

Alida Valli: The Later Years

Lauren Bacall at the 2006 Oscar Ceremony

Lauren Bacall and the 1997 Academy Awards

Sandra Dee

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