Parody
Parody Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan / 432 Chapter 8 By the fall of 1943, Reagan was running with a faster Hollywood crowd. Often he would meet up with Humphrey Bogart and Errol Flynn, and...
...He'd just learned that his new love, Lauren Bacall, had dumped him for a tall, mysterious writer from the Midwest, a fellow with strong penetrating eyes and manly gestures, yet who was not without a soft, sensual side...
...Morris was nuzzling with Luce over champagne, talking about his theory that Boswell was a greater man than Johnson, when a drunk Lyndon Johnson stumbled across the table, looking for his biographer, Robert Caro...
...Like many women, Grable was aroused by the sight of a character who was the product of a postmodern sensibility...
...Morris had been busy aU day filming Casablanca...
...Often he would meet up with Humphrey Bogart and Errol Flynn, and they wouM g° off on all-night sprees, carousing from one hot spot to the next...
...But Moms, the master of any situation, leveled him with a left cross, restoring peace to the nightclub...
...Let's face tt, he's the biggest stud in town...
...appearance in the middle of the "hill of beans" speech has gone down in movie history...
...Where is that sumbitch...
...If I were a woman, I think I might be in love with Edmund ^rri^' Claude Rains was heard to comment...
...Though the film had been released the previous year, Morris had insisted on going back and inserting himself into the famous airport scene...
...Morris's famous "Do you mind if I intrude...
...Morris is doing it to all the dames...
...Morris led his date to a secluded corner, just next to a table where Carl Sandburg was deep in conversation with Abraham Lincoln...
...Gee, that's tough, Bogie...
...Grable dropped the B-actor and threw herself at the fierce^ intelligent biographer...
...Slim left me for Edmund Morris," Bogart blurted out to Reagan when they met at the bar...
...Johnson drawled...
...The scene of course took some time for Morris to get right, so the picture was not rereleased until the fall of 1957...
...As Bogie was drowning his sorrows that night at the Brown Derby Morris himself happened to enter the room with Clare Boothe Luce on his arm...
...AH eyes turned, and a hush M over the restaurant, as Morris's aura of animal-like grace and power permeated the establishment...
...Bogart was drinking alone at the bar of the Brown Derby...
...Two weeks earlier, Reagan had been pursumg Betty Grable at one of Jack Warner's parties, when she spotted Morris across the room sitting quietly taking notes...
...The night of November 13, however, was different...
Vol. 5 • October 1999 • No. 3
