Transcript: Are You Boring?

Rob Long explores one of the great fears of life and show business alike

This is Rob Long with Martini Shot for The Ankler.

There's an old Hollywood story, which may or may not be true, about Humphrey Bogart. He was about to film an "explainer" scene — one of those dialogue-heavy set-pieces, where one character drones on for a page or two of crucial, but eye-glazing, exposition. 

But Bogart, like most actors, worried about bor…