Our favorite old-time actress Lauren Bacall is back onscreen with Nicole Kidman in “Birth”, a film with the disturbing premise of Kidman becoming obsessed with a 10 year-old boy. We’ll probably see it anyway just for Bacall, since we read her autobiography By Myself twenty years ago and always felt a kinship for the Jewish girl who seduced Hollywood with her sultry voice. At 19, she possessed a sexy, regal presence than any anorexic skankwhore actress could ever hope to match (she married Humphrey Bogart at 19. He was 46. Can you blame him?)
Now Betty (we know from her book she hates her stage name) is almost 80 and still exudes just so much moxie! She even put Kidman in her place after a reporter mistakenly called both of them “film legends” at a press conference. “She can’t be a legend,” scoffed Betty. “You have to be older.”