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/ 13 February 2008
Verita Bouvaire Thompson, the reputed long-time mistress and confidante of Humphrey Bogart, has died. She was 89. In 1982, Thompson wrote a revelatory book called Bogie and Me: A Love Story in which she described a 14-year secret love affair with Bogart that overlapped his marriage to Lauren Bacall.
NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: It’s the year of the threequels and this week, it’s the turn of what might be called a thirteenquel: Ocean’s 13, writes Shaun de Waal
The roles played by South Africans in the Great War in East Africa and Europe’s War in Africa. David Smith reports.