From the AP via Yahoo News:
NEW ORLEANS - Verita Bouvaire Thompson, the reputed longtime mistress and confidante of Humphrey Bogart, has died. She was 89.
Thompson died of natural causes at JoEllen Smith Living Center on Feb. 1, according to her boyfriend, Dean Shapiro, a 58-year-old New Orleans writer.
May Verita rest in peace and rise in glory.
She sounds like quite a gal, matching Bogie drink for drink, cussword for cussword, minding his toupées, and reputedly mistressing him.
All the way to her death, her friends said, Thompson adhered to a striking style and outlook reminiscent of the 1940s and Bogart's movies, dressing in Chanel suits, high heels, hat and gloves - with a whiskey smash in hand.
That's style all right. And with all that, she lived to be 89 AND had a 58 year old boyfriend.
From Mexico, to Arizona, to Hollywood, to Natchez, Mississippi, to New Orleans in the 1990s, she lived life to the fullest. Somehow it seems quite fitting that she spent her last years in New Orleans. She's a New Orleans type of woman.
Now that is living!
ReplyDeleteI am exhausted but I realized that I spent no time here today and what little blog time I had at MP's.
What has become of me???
I wonder the same thing, Fran. GP is getting annoyed about my time on the computer. It surely cuts into my reading time. Something's got to give.
ReplyDeleteYour story about your answer to the hell question resonates. I tend to make the same sort of outburst.
Even when he was married to Lauren Bacall?
ReplyDeleteYes, unfortunately. s. allen
DeleteWill I have a better chance of living longer if I get me a bf who's 40 years younger than me? (NB: he'd still be legal.) Seems too young for my taste, not to mention barely half-formed, but in the interest of science I might be persuaded.
ReplyDeleteA verve and zest for life. Now that's the way to do it. She's probably going to Hell. Oops. I've spent too much time blogging with Evangelicals.
ReplyDeleteSusan, so it appears.
ReplyDeletePaul the booze and the cussing probably help, too. You're not bad in the cussing department. As for the young boyfriend, well that's up to you. Stay legal.
DP, I think you've been affected (afflicted) by your association with the wrong types.
Mimi, I'm definitely short on the booze end. Even back in my distant youth when, for a very, very brief period, I closed down a few bars, I was drinking Diet Coke. I think I will bow to the mistress and not even try to keep up with the awesome lady. I'm rather enjoying a quiet life.
ReplyDeletePaul, LOL. Closing the bar with Diet-Coke! You were a wild one. Where'd a good evangelical boy like you learn to cuss?
ReplyDeleteThe idea of last call, the shock of the lights coming on and the dazed looks abounding and our handsome brother Paul, diet coke in hand brings me great joy!
ReplyDeleteFran, it is a picture that calls forth delight.
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