The Iconoclast
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Casablanca: The Bogart-Hemingway Nexus

--With a brief digression on the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League

by Sam Bluefarb (December 2011)

“We’ll always have Casablanca. . .” In 2004, an American woman, Kathy Kriger, a former diplomat, posted to Morocco, opened up the first “Rick’s Café Casablanca.” [pacé: Rick Blaine]


In his post-modernist analysis of Casablanca, Umberto Eco speaks of Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) as a “Hemingwayan Hero [who] helped the Ethiopians and the Spaniards [fight] against fascism) [and who] does not drink.”[1] Does not drink? more>>>

Posted on 11/30/2011 3:20 PM by NER
Comments
4 Dec 2011
Send an emailNorman Berdichevsky

Very well written, informative and entertaining as always. I cite Sam Blufarb in my book The Left is Seldom Right to explain how two generations of film producers and writers helped to glorify "The Left" as romantic, generous and tolerant while condemning "The Right" to evil, racist, fascist, intolerant, etc.in literally huindreds of films vs a single one "The Fountainhead" that has a conservative hero.    "