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30 August 2008 3:20 PM, PDT | From blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news

At left: Hitchcock's "Notorious." Bergman on strong axis. Grant at left. Bergman lighter, Grant shadowed. Grant above, Bergman below. Movement toward lower right. The attention and pressure is on her.

I've mentioned from time to time the "shot at a time" sessions I do at film festivals and universities, sifting through a film with the help of the audience. The e-mails I receive indicate this is perceived as some kind of esoteric exercise. Actually, it's something anyone can do, including you, and you don't need to be an expert, because the audience, and the film itself, are your most helpful collaborators. Of course it would be wise to research a film you hope to dismantle in public, and be familiar with its director and context, but I believe the process in its pure form could be applied to a film you've never even heard of. I want to tell you how.

Roger Ebert

29 August 2008 12:14 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Tell No One

Starring François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, and Kristin Scott Thomas

Directed by Guillaume Canet

Rated R

Eight years earlier, Dr. Alexandre Beck (François Cluzet) was a suspect in the murder of his wife (Marie-Josée Croze from Munich and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly). Her death was gruesome, though the doctor was eventually cleared when a serial killer whose modus operandi closely resembled that in the Beck case was arrested on other charges.

In the eight years since her death, Alex has not put the past behind him, which would be impossible for anyone to ask of him. He has found stability in his work and seems to be adjusting better everyday. But then he gets a strange e-mail that appears to be recent security camera footage of his late wife at a train station and his mind, understandably, goes to a different place.

Is his wife alive?

Colin Boyd

24 July 2008 12:22 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

The 1960s admen of "Mad Men" are depicted as serial sexists, but was that really the case in all the fictional advertising agencies of yore?

Not necessarily.

Photo GALLERYCast Of 'Mad Men'

Post EXCLUSIVESJon HammChristina HendricksVincent Kartheiser

Cary Grant was even handsomer than the star of "Mad Men" - the ridiculously handsome Jon Hamm - and Grant wasn't disrespectful of his assistant, Mary, when the pressure was on to devise a new slogan for Wham ham in "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House.

By ADAM BUCKMAN

11 July 2008 8:50 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Release year: 1938

The players: Director: Howard Hawks, Writers: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde, Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Charles Ruggles, May Robson

The plot: Dr. David Huxley’s life is turned upside down when he meets the eccentric Susan Vance, who recruits him to help her move a leopard from her New York apartment to her aunt’s home in Connecticut.

Modern thoughts on a classic movie: Although the film was a commercial bomb upon its initial release, “Bringing Up Baby” has managed to sneak its way onto not only best comedy lists, but best film lists too. Personally though, I think the people of 1938 had the right idea in rejecting this utterly boring screw-ball classic.

Cary Grant’s Huxley is both foolish and spineless. On his wedding day, he lets a woman he barely knows talk him into taking a leopard from New York to Connecticut.

Rachel Thuro

9 July 2008 8:32 AM, PDT | From Spout.com | See recent Spout news

As real-life Nazi war criminal Aribert Heim--aka Dr. Death, who allegedly kept relics from his human experiments in his office!--is being "chased" through Chile (as much as you can chase a 94 year old), I'm sure Tom Cruise or Jerry Bruckheimer are watching CNN right now while furiously thumb-typing their lawyers on Blackberries to option the story. But I couldn't help reminisce about what could be argued as the genesis of torture porn, Marathon Man (1976). Dustin Hoffman plays marathon runner Babe who, like Cary Grant in North by Northwest, unknowingly has a connection that is too close for comfort with a Nazi war criminal known as--prepare t ...

Paul Moore

26 May 2008 3:03 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

The Palm Springs, California retreat which once belonged to movie icon Cary Grant has been put on the market.

The actor's hideaway for more than 20 years is on sale for just under $5 million (GBP2.5 million).

Grant, who died in 1986, lived there from the 1950s until the late 1970s.

Built in 1927, the Spanish farmhouse-style property features six bedrooms and a guest wing designed by legendary architect Wallace Neff.

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15 May 2008 10:23 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Warren Cowan, whose Rogers and Cowan public relations company has represented many of Hollywood's leading luminaries and the music industry's best-selling recording artists over more than a half century, died Wednesday of cancer at age 87. His clients included Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Gene Kelly, John Wayne, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, Steve McQueen, Cary Grant, Sylvester Stallone, Ronald Reagan, The Doors, Elton John, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Michael Jackson.

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2 May 2008 10:33 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The romantic comedy Made of Honor will be the only new film opening wide against Iron Man (which opened Thursday night) this weekend. Some critics seem to agree that it represents effective counter-programming. The New York Times's Stephen Holden remarks that the movie "adds tart satirical flavors to a cotton-candy formula without sabotaging the sugar rush." Roger Moore in the Orlando Sentinel comments that "fortunately ... [the movie] earns enough goodwill in a clever and sexy opening act to carry it through" to the end. Most other critics, however, suggest that it's merely another rendering of the 1997 film My Best Friend's Wedding, with a gender reversal, and one even compares it, unfavorably, with the classic The Philadelphia Story. He is the Toronto Star's Philip Marchand, who remarks that the audience is not likely to show much interest in the principal character, played by Patrick Dempsey. "Somewhere in the shades of Hollywood, the ghost of Cary Grant is shaking his head," Marchand writes. Kyle Smith in the New York Post calls Dempsey's character "a preening yet uptight jerk," and says that the outcome of the movie -- which character will wind up with whom? -- is never in doubt. "Still," he writes, "there was a certain amount of suspense in the air at the screening of Made of Honor: Would Tom and Hannah realize they're perfect for each other at the altar, or would I burn down the theater first?" Desson Thomson frames his review as if he were writing about a freeway accident. "Actors Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan are trapped in the wreckage of a bad romantic comedy. Observers suggest the vehicle in which they were riding was poorly engineered and believed to be constructed of cheap, recycled material. The severity of their injuries is unclear at this time."

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22 April 2008 12:12 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor Neil Patrick Harris is now one of America's top magicians, after he was voted onto the board of the Illustrious Magic Castle.

The How I Met Your Mother actor has been practising illiusions in his spare time for years - and now gets to sit with the top tricksters at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, the home of the Academy of Magic Arts.

Harris' appointment to the board of directors is a significant move - he is the first celebrity to be handed the honour since Cary Grant.

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