
Nothing in Paul Schrader's film ''The Walker'' can quite match its delicious opening scene of sniping repartee over canasta among three Washington grandes dames and their pet gay playmate. Lynn (Kristin Scott Thomas), Natalie (Lauren Bacall) and Abigail (Lily Tomlin) constitute what may be the screen's most formidable threesome of jaded,...
Eggheaded showbiz types who seriously insist on calling movies films are hung up on (or as they would say, ''obsessed with'') the word genre. It's French, pronounced only the French way -- zhahn-ruh -- and means ''class, kind, category, species.'' You don't have to be French to understand ''noir is my favorite genre''; any film critic who used the...

At the start of yesterday's tribute to Betty Comden, the celebrated lyricist and librettist of movies and major league Broadway musicals who died in November at 89, Lauren Bacall announced that the words would all belong to Ms. Comden and her collaborator of more than 60 years, Adolph Green, who died in 2002. The tribute, at the Majestic Theater on...
Lauren Bacall (født Betty Joan Perske 16. september 1924) er en amerikansk skuespiller.
Hun filmdebuterede i 1944 i At have og ikke have. Det var under optagelse til denne film, hun mødte Humphrey Bogart, som hun var gift med fra 1945 til hans død i 1957.
Lauren Bacall har siden medvirket i mange film, bl.a. Sidney Lumets Mordet i Orient Ekspressen fra 1974 og Lars von Triers Dogville i 2003.