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Show t y v v DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, FEBRUARY Tomorrow 1:00 AM Merv Griffin To- WEEKLY REFLEX 12:00 AM Q 0 O CD Sign Off 12:45 AM 0 Cl McHales Navy Crosswits day's guests include George Massie, C. V. Myers, Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong. W here the show is. aired for 90 minutes Ralph Nader will be included. 28,-1980- 'w NORTH DAVIS LEADER, FEBRUARY 28, 1980 - IN FOCUS r Humphrey Bogart was the last of a breed On opening night in someone to play the tough gangster part of Duke Swifty, a 1922 Broadway play starring Frances Howard and Hale Hamilton, a supporting actor got so scared he walked off stage to get a glass of water, leaving everyone to ad-li- b on stage. Hamilton was rather upset, the actor said later. So were the critics. It was like that for Humphrey Bogart in the beginning shaky starts and a nervous stomach. However, that particular incident was an early indication of a certain kind of nerviness that bespoke a man who believed in doing things just like you feel like doing and taking the consequences. Bogarts emergence as a major personality, from his Broadway years in drawing-roocomedies to his success in motion pictures, is traced in Bogie, a special that dramatizes the life of the legendary actor, Tuesday, March 4, on CBS. Kevin OConnor and Kathryn Har-rol- d star as Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in the drama, which focuses on Bogarts dilemma of trying to balance his popular image as a tough guy and his gentler but complex offscreen personality. Bogarts acting abilities and disposition on stage improved after his unsteady start in 1922, but for the next 15 years he seemed doomed to play country-clu- b juveniles in drawing room comedies, making his entrance wearing a blazer and carrying a tennis racquet. It was during one such production that Twentiscouts saw eth Century-Fo- x him and brought him to Hollywood, where he spent most of box-offi- m 1931-3- 2 getting nowhere fast. Bogart decided that he could never be a leading man in motion pictures because of his split upper lip (pierced by a splinter when he was serving on board a Navy ship) and returned to Broadway. If Arthur Hopkins, who was producing a new play by Robert E. Sherwood, The Petrified Forest, had not lacked Mantee, Bogart might have wound up playing Tennis, anyone? types for the rest of his career. Bogart won the Mantee role because of his world-wear- y voice. Later, he appeared in the movie version, which resulted in his becoming one of Hollywoods most celebrated hoods in sub-ueparts. his first 34 pictures, Bogart was a jailbird in nine, was electrocuted or hanged in eight and riddled by bullets in , a dozen. Though he was something less than a tough guy audiences were attracted to his mans man personality. His gradual emergence as a star began with High Sierra and continued through The Maltese Falcon (which brought him an Oscar in 1952) and Casablanca. For his tough-gu- y roles Bogart donned his cosmetics. He would let his beard grow, dangle a cigarette from his lips and adopt the clipped, salty accent of the underworld. An uncontrollable muscle tic above his left eye, his square jaw and a hangover pallor also helped define the gangster demeanor. Cosmetics and tough-gu- y image notwithstanding, what his fans and friends apparently loved most about Bogart was a quality he possessed on screen and off: honesty. He was true to himself. Lauren Bacall, his fourth wife, once said, Bogie was the last of a breed. No man was more part of the scene. To never sell your soul, to have to be true to yourself, were the values in which he believed. There was something else about Bogie. He was an iconoclast, with a keen sense of realism and humor about his tough-gu- y image. He once said to Raymond Massey as they watched their doubles duel it out in a hazardous film sequence, Ray, Ill bet you 310 my double is braver than yours. nt n, box-offi- SUNDAY 030280 12:00P.M. 1:00P.M. 1:30P.M. 2:30P.M. 3:00P.M. B Q o Q O 0O B NCAA Basketball: Ohio State at Indiana NBA Basketball: Los Angeles at Phoenix Superstars Bay Hill Classic International Boxing NBA Basketball: Milwaukee at San Diego Wide World of Sports SportsWorld FRIDAY 030780 Rate Mnlgrew signed Lome Greene a la Land on Kate Mulgrew has been signed to star in Mother ABC Theatre an Seton, presention currently in pro1 duction for the season. Ms. Mulgrew, who with impressed theater criticsDesde-mona her performances as in Othello and Emily in Our Town before starring in her own television series, will play the title role in the true story of Elizabeth Seton, the first American to be declared a saint by the Catholic Church. Michael Landon, star of NBCs Little House on the Prairie," is a talented actor, writer, director and producer and a sucker for impressionists. I can watch a guy do impressions of other people all night long, says Landon, who admits to having once tried it himself, not quite I tried to do successfully. Lome Greene, and I hurt myself very badly. 1980-198- 7:00P.M. 7:30P.M. CB 0 Houston Rodeo NBA Basketball: Utah at Phoenix SATURDAY 030880 1 1:00A.M. 11:30AM. 11:45A.M. 12:00P.M. 12:45P.M. 1:30P.M. 2:00P.M. 3:00P.M. B B B O oo 0 Q 0 Basketball Special Show NCAA Basketball Championship World Series of Auto Racing American Sportsman Professional Bowlers Tour CBS Sports Spectacular ABCs Wide World of Sports Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic Pre-Ga- (Stations reserve the right to make changes.) self-estee- SPORTS 11:00 A.M. Popular golfing figure Arnold Palmer will play host to his many friendly rivals on the PGA Tour when NBC Sports presents live coverage of the $300,000 Bay Hill Classic, Sunday, March 2, on NBC. 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