The writer and the movie star.

I feel very sad about the death of Lauren Bacall. I loved her acting and she is, after all, one of the last, if not the last, icon of Hollywood's Golden Age. Actually I should resent her, though I don't. In 1994, my brother Gary wrote, Bogart, In Search of My Father along with Stephen Bogart, Lauren's son. With motherly pride Lauren pushed the publisher into giving Stephen top billing, though Gary had written the entire book. It turns out she didn't have do do much convincing since the book was published in 1996, and Gary died at 50 years old the year before.

Gary, shown here, was a great teacher of writing, a brilliant wit, and that rarest of persons today: a wise man.