"Bogart’s appeal was and remains completely adult—so adult that it’s hard to believe he was ever young. If men who take responsibility are hard to come by in films these days, it’s because they’re hard to come by, period, in an era when being a kid for life is the ultimate achievement, and 'adult' as it pertains to film is just a euphemism for pornography."
In The New York Times, Holly Brubach reviews Stefan Kanfer's Tough without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart.
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