'Eagle Eye' is a big-budget popcorn thriller that delivers Oct 7, 2008
A modern version of the biplane chasing Cary Grant down in Northwest. Definitely. (Kingston Mariner, MA)
The joy of comfort Oct 7, 2008
Like Bringing Up Baby (1938), the screwball comedy of screwball comedies, with Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and an almost domesticated leopard. If only life were that much fun. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The beauty trap Oct 5, 2008
Going back to an earlier generation, stars like Clark Gable and Cary Grant embodied a sort of debonair panache that now has only nostalgic appeal. To go back further, droves of female fans legendarily tended the grave of silent star Rudolph Valentino long after his death. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
MAUREEN DOWD: Newman was 'liberal who loved the label' Oct 5, 2008
"You want to send her off with something classy and stylish, the way Cary Grant would, or Clint Eastwood," he said. "You think, how would Hombre handle this? And when this woman came up to me -- the guy who played Hud -- what comes through? Laurel and Hardy."Both of them. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Nick & Norahfail to connect Oct 3, 2008
(Frances Farmer once referred to her famous co-star as Cary Grant being Cary Grant being Cary Grant, and if Cera doesnt diversify his portfolio soon, his peaches are going to get a little too moldy, if you know what I mean. . (MSNBC -- News)
The Paul Newman Scene I Can't Get Out of My Head Oct 3, 2008
My two favorite stars, after the untouchable Cary Grant, are Newman and Nicholson. But if it's Jack's world and we just live in it, Newman always seemed happy to live in ours. (Slate)
Hollywood 'paid stars a fortune to smoke' Sep 25, 2008
According to the research, stars prepared to endorse tobacco included Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Bette Davis and Betty Grable. Big payments. (BBC News)
'Dancing with the Stars' recap: Crazy Cloris steals the season premiere Sep 24, 2008
Bruno: Ted, at moments you had the elegance of Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief then you turned into Steve Carell in Get Smart. Very very entertaining routine. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Mates Brad Pitt and George Clooney now Oceans Apart Sep 23, 2008
"They personify film stars who have tremendous style like Clarke Gable and Gary Cooper and Cary Grant,'' she says. "That is what George and Brad are today. . (Melbourne Herald Sun)
DVD Report: This week's new releases (Sept. 21) Sep 21, 2008
Nope, they're not Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, but they have a good time aspiring. The pair's banter revolves around Carter Rutherford (John Krasinski of "The Office"), a college gridiron star and WWI hero recruited by Dodge to legitimize his ragtag Duluth Bulldogs and the foundering pro game as a whole. (Boston Globe)
'Sex in the City' slips into video stores Sep 21, 2008
You can tell by the choices he makes with "Leatherheads." Looking a bit like "The Sting," it tries to recall the days of screwball comedies -- the ones starring Cary Grant. While it hardly has the dialogue of a "His Girl Friday," it's performed at a rapid clip. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Step Brothers Sep 20, 2008
THERE have been many great pairings in American film comedy - Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - but none quite like Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. Those others could talk fast and crack wise; they knew their way around a well-written line and they could fall like acrobats. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Forgotten Trails: Ritz Theatre's anniversary noted this week Sep 19, 2008
The films (picture shows) scheduled for the week of the celebration were A Star is Born, with Janet Gaynor and Frederick March; Topper with Constance Bennett and Cary Grant; Another Dawn with Kay Francis and Errol Flynn; Ever Since Eve with Marion Davies and Robert Montgomery; Oh, Susanna with Gene Autry; Reported Missing; and West Bound Limited. Along with information about each of the employees, photographs of each are included. (Brewton Standard, AL)
Movie Review: 'Ghost Town' Sep 19, 2008
Consider Cary Grant in "Topper" (1937), the obvious inspiration for David Koepp, who directed and co-wrote "Ghost Town" with John Kamps. Because both Gervais and Kinnear seem so urgent in their desires, and because Tea Leoni has a seemingly effortless humor and grace, this material becomes for a while sort of enchanting. (The Delaware County Times, PA)
His task: Help strangers die happily ever after Sep 19, 2008
A misanthropic dentist, a roguish ghost and a zany Egyptologist: as these unlikely companions scamper around Manhattan in the buoyant comedy "Ghost Town," they resurrect the spirits of classic movie curmudgeons like W. C. Fields and such romantic comedians as Cary Grant and Carole Lombard in Woody Allen territory ... His genial martini-drinking charmer with a wandering eye and a raised brow is about as close as anyone has come in a recent movie to Cary Grant, who starred in the original "Topper"... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The Ricky Gervais Ghost Movie: Way Better Than It Looks Sep 19, 2008
But most of all, Ghost Town recalls the 1937 film Topper, in which Cary Grant and Constance Bennett played two debonair ghouls about town who return from the beyond to show the stuffy title character how to live a little. Ghost Town's chief revenant, like Topper's, is a tuxedoed cad who regards being dead as a blasted inconvenience. (Slate)
Ronald Reagan's Hollywood days revisited Sep 18, 2008
But film critic and historian Marc Eliot (biographer of Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart) has dug up even more about young sportscaster "Dutch" Reagan, his journey west to Hollywood, his B-movie career, which included the oft-ridiculed Bedtime for Bonzo, his relationship with super agent Lew Wasserman and his rocky marriage to his first wife, actress Jane Wyman. When friends tried to get Reagan and Wyman to reconcile after they separated, they failed miserably. (USA Today -- Life)
Five great movies with ghosts Sep 14, 2008
A pair of highly likable and very cosmopolitan ghosts, played by Constance Bennett and Cary Grant, set out to help liberate a sad-sack banker (Roland Young) saddled with a haughty wife (Billie Burke). The genteel screwball comedy inspired two lesser sequels and a '50s TV show. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Movie star Carell is a big screen action man Aug 23, 2008
But they will go because of Carell, who s becoming box office bullion to the studios, and is already being described as a 21st century answer to the likes of Peter Sellers or even Cary Grant by many fans. Massachusetts-born Carell started making waves on the big screen about five years ago by stealing scenes from other, more established comedy stars. (WalesOnline)
Living in a dream house Aug 20, 2008
In 1947, producer David O. Selznick and RKO Radio Picture's publicity department came up with a plan to promote the upcoming movie, "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House," a comedy starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy, released in 1948. The studio sent blueprints of the movie set house to contractors across the country, hoping to see 100 replicas of the house built. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Tropic Thunder Aug 13, 2008
Oh, dudey, dudey, dudey, where's Cary Grant when you need him. But there's more, a final punch-up in the form of an unbilled cameo from a famous fellow, the one with an appetite for Scientology, young brides and errant behaviour on talk-show couches. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Alice Cooper still scaring up crowds Aug 8, 2008
August 08, 2008 ONLINE EDITION. Alice Cooper will perform at the Orpheum Theatre. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Political humor, satire not on purpose Aug 1, 2008
Romantic comedies were once the province of William Powell and Myrna Loy, Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, Spenser Tracy and Katherine Hepburn adults who talked smart in a way that put a smile on your face. You grew up wanting to be like those people. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Top Entertainment Lawyers Form Mason Miller LLP Jul 29, 2008
The firms founding partners have represented some of Hollywoods top names, from legends like Cary Grant and Cat Stevens to some of todays major artists, including Ludacris, Andre Benjamin of Outkast, Melanie Brown of the Spice Girls, Reba McEntire, Olivia Newton-John, comedian Katt Williams, and actors Rocky Carroll, Courtney B. Vance and Angela Bassett. The firm also represents top industry executives and independent production and new media companies. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
AFI Names Top Ten Mystery Films of ... Jul 26, 2008
Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. Director, Alfred Hitchcock. (Suite101.com)
Films Not Nominated as Best Picture Jul 26, 2008
Starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in her only screwball role, it is the story of a madcap heiress who, along with her pet leopard (Baby) make a mess of a staid zoologist s life. Ranked #88 overall by the AFI.. (Suite101.com)
Details help 'Mad Men' capture '60s Jul 25, 2008
The men, meanwhile, are looking to James Garner and Cary Grant, not John F. Kennedy. "We're still in the era of movie stars, not Jackie," Bryant says. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Worth watching Jul 25, 2008
Hepburn plays Tracy Lord, a Philadelphia socialite whose wedding to a stuffy nouveau riche financier is interrupted by her charming ex-husband (that's Cary Grant) and the fast-talking tabloid reporter assigned to the story (that's Stewart). SUNDAY, JULY 27. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Step Brothers: "Oh, Grow Up!" "Never!" Jul 25, 2008
" Thursday, Jul. 24, 2008 By Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in Step Brothers. Gemma La Mana / Columbia Article Tools John C. Reilly has just told his new roommate Will Ferrell that he must never ever touch Reilly's precious drum kit. So as soon as Reilly is out of the house, Ferrell tiptoes into the sanctum, opens his pants and rubs his scrotum on the surface of the snare drum. Taking revenge on a hated rival: it's a moral imperative for great warriors, 8-year-old boys, silverback gorillas and... (Time.com)
Best entertainment bets for the week Jul 25, 2008
The Florida Theatre's Summer Movie Classic series presents To Catch a Thief, starring the beautiful Grace Kelly and the charming Cary Grant. Alfred Hitchcock directed the romantic thriller, which is set on the French Riviera. (Florida Times-Union)
David Thomson: End of the affair Jul 22, 2008
Once upon a time the stars worked like there was no tomorrow - if Cary Grant made 24 movies in four or five years, Bette Davis did nearly 50 in 12 years. And Davis was Oscar-nominated seven times in 10 years (from the mid-30s to the mid-40s) as best actress, nearly always working at the same studio (Warner Brothers), with a small team of writers, directors, cameramen and supporting players. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Hitchcock & Chaplin Overlooked at t... Jul 22, 2008
It s a fun film with some suspenseful moments and Cary Grant, as the befuddled innocent man, is in top form. Rated #55 overall and #7 in mysteries. (Suite101.com)
Doris Day: Why She Left Hollywood Jul 15, 2008
"Well, famously Rock Hudson, Cary Grant, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart," said Kaufman. Add Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas and Jack Lemmon to the list, too. (CBS News -- Iraq)
Posthumous roles: We see dead people Jul 15, 2008
Theres a reason they call it screen immortality generations to come will have the opportunity to enjoy the performances of screen legends like Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Buster Keaton, Bette Davis and John Wayne no matter how much time has passed since each of these actors have shuffled off their mortal coils. The lag time between a films production and its release into theaters, however, sometimes means that a movies original audience is already seeing work by a performer... (MSNBC -- News)
The Academy Awards Neglected Actors Jul 14, 2008
Cary Grant (1904-1986). Grant was the Tom Hanks of his day, equally adept at playing light comedy, romantic comedy, or dramatic roles. (Suite101.com)
Academy Awards Neglected Actresses Jul 14, 2008
After often being miscast as exotic femme fatales in the 1920s and early 1930s, Loy went on to find her niche playing urbane, sophisticated women, as in the in the popular Thin Man series opposite William Powell, and later in light comedies such as co-starring with Cary Grant in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948). Although usually not regarded as a dramatic actress, she gave strong performances as the wife of Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and in The Red Pony (1949)... (Suite101.com)
Ingrid Bergman Movie Double Jul 6, 2008
10pm with Indiscreet, a romantic comedy featuring Bergman as a famous leading actress, Anna Kalman, and Cary Grant as Philip Adams, a banker-diplomat. Kalman is resigned to never finding a suitable partner and Adams has spent his life avoiding long-term relationships. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Hotel Alex Johnson officially sold (2519) Jul 3, 2008
- 1958 -- Alfred Hitchcock, Eva Marie Saint and Cary Grant stay at the hotel while filming "North By Northwest.". - 1992 -- Owner Jim Didier's brother, Tom Didier, undertakes a major top-to-bottom renovation after several ownership changes and renovations throughout the years to reflect the changing tourism industry. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Movie Comedy: Father Goose (1964) Jul 1, 2008
Cary Grant, Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard Star in World War II Film. Cary Grant plays a reluctant coastwatcher in the 1964 WW II comedy classic, Father Goose ... Garnering the starring role was the incomparable Cary Grant as the boozy, disheveled beachcomber Walter Eckland, with Leslie Caron as his prissy love interest and steady Trevor Howard as his Royal Australian Navy boss. (Suite101.com)
MOMania: Dad's girl Jun 14, 2008
He introduced me to classic movies and even now, if there s a Judy Garland or Cary Grant movie on TV then we re both sitting on our respective couches enjoying the show. We love spy novels, historical fiction and autobiographies. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
An homage to the everyman of sixties cinema Jun 13, 2008
Handsome as Cary Grant, funny as Peter Sellers, he is characteristically regarded with affection and recalled as the put-upon modern everyman of early-sixties cinema, an era when challenging cinema and European women with large breasts were unusually popular. Ciao Marcello. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
'The Happening': One for the birds Jun 13, 2008
Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds was shot in 1963, after Hitchcock had directed a series of masterpieces featuring bona fide stars: Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly, Janet Leigh. The Birds, though, is saddled with Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren, a pair of low-wattage schlubs. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Must List: The five words only edition! Jun 12, 2008
2) Chris Noth (SATC) - modern Cary Grant. 3) Coldplay Viva La Vida. (Entertainment Weekly)
Reexamining Polanski's trial Jun 9, 2008
A judge who apparently enjoyed his role in celebrity cases involving Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando, and Cary Grant, he engaged both attorneys in the Polanski case in deceptions, he played to the media in a press conference, and he allowed public perception to affect his decision-making. Early in "Wanted and Desired," in an old clip, we see the director saying to Mike Wallace, "I think I was very unfortunate to have a judge who misused justice." It sounds like a defensive claim, but by the end of... (Boston Globe)
Now you see him, now you don't Jun 8, 2008
"But I think I would if I could," Hoffman said, "If I was handsome right from the get-go, I think I would. Think of the great line from Cary Grant. . . . [Someone] said to him, 'How does it feel to be Cary Grant? Because every woman in the world wants to sleep with you, and every man in the world wants to be you,' and he says, 'I can only tell you that every morning when I wake up, I, too, would like to be Cary Grant!' ". Like many of his fans, Hoffman looks back at his early roles with some... (Boston Globe)
Other side of Polanski case Jun 8, 2008
Rittenband loved the spotlight; his New York Times obituary notes that he ''presided over Elvis Presley's divorce, Marlon Brando's child-custody battle and a paternity suit against Cary Grant. . (Akron Beacon Journal)
Classic films will please princess movie fanatics Jun 5, 2008
ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953): Although it might be argued that Gregory Peck is playing Cary Grant in this film, there are charm and chemistry between him as an American newsman in Rome and Audrey Hepburn as a princess on the lam. THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1940): This special effects spectacular has aged much better than the later Disney version. (The Augusta Chronicle)
MSNBC's Chris Matthews speaks at NYC graduation Jun 5, 2008
He also touched on the political lightning rod of immigration, speaking to a class of diverse graduates, noting how the country was built by immigrants who rose up through the ranks of society, and he rattled off the names of some of America's more famous immigrants like Cary Grant and Ralph Lauren. Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. (USA Today -- Life)
Where there's smoke, there's ire; no ifs or butts Jun 1, 2008
Humphrey Bogart made smoking look tough, James Dean made it cool, Cary Grant made it sophisticated, Betty Grable made it glamorous and Lauren Bacall, leaning against the doorway of Bogart's hotel room asking "Anybody got a match?", made it sexy. With the 1950s and 1960s came confirmation that tobacco caused cancer and other serious diseases, yet True Blue blissfully smoked on - in homes, offices and factories, in cars and on public transport, in cafes, restaurants, clubs and pubs. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Obama says his ears too big for Rushmore Jun 1, 2008
He did express curiosity about the filming of a chase scene in "North by Northwest," Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 classic starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint that included a death-defying scramble over Rushmore's presidential faces. "How did they get up there in the first place?" he asked ranger Wesley Jensen. (AZCentral -- News)
Facts are for pantywaists May 31, 2008
Actors like Joan Crawford (born Shprintzel Anatevkawitz) and Cary Grant (born Balgok-Uth, Devourer Of Souls) got more than just starring roles. They got firm moral guidance. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Throw the screwball May 30, 2008
Back in Cary Grant's mid-20th-century heyday, Leatherheads would have been tagged a "caper," a "romp" or a "screwball comedy" ... Clooney, by general consensus, is the heir to the Cary Grant aura of silver-screen urbanity ... "Sure, it's always nice when people make that comparison if only because I take it as an enunciation coup. Actors tended to get to speak in complex full sentences in those scripts. "But the reason to get this film made was a lot more pragmatic than needing to channel Cary... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Man in the middle as Mundine eyes world glory May 30, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Great expectations Anthony Mundine connects with a solid left to the face of Sam Soliman in Melbourne on Wednesday. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Jamieson seeks four minutes of fame May 30, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Late call-up Sarah Jamieson. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Woman stabbed in the eye and brain May 30, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Daniel EmersonMay 30, 2008 - 2:01PM. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Federal police sought TV role May 30, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. THE Australian Federal Police once approached a television production company to make a series based on their operations in order to boost the agency's image, its commissioner, Mick Keelty, has revealed. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Second poll likely to choose president May 30, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Jose Ramos-Horta, 57, is mobbed by the press as he arrives at a polling station to cast his vote. (Yahoo News -- East Timor)
Screen gems: UA Film Festival travels through 90 years of classics May 25, 2008
Some Like It Hot (Monday): I hesitate to call this Billy Wilder's perfect film because it has its little flaws: i.e., Tony Curtis' grating Cary Grant imitation, and labored love scenes between him and Marilyn Monroe on Osgood's (Joe E. Brown) yacht. But between the in-drag comedy, the Hotel Del setting and Jack Lemmon at his most brilliant, Some Like It Hot is smokin. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Less dash than lash, yet Indy's on form May 23, 2008
Indy was to be a man's man, like Bogart, but suave like Cary Grant, paired with a man's woman, like Jean Arthur or Rosalind Russell. That's why they hired Lawrence Kasdan to write Raiders Of The Lost Ark; he was a Hawks specialist, capable of writing sassy dialogue for both sexes. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Top 10 Movie MacGuffins May 21, 2008
The plot of this classic was most recently "borrowed" by Mission: Impossible II. Cary Grant plays an intelligence agent who recruits Ingrid Bergman to infiltrate a spy ring in South America run by the urbane Claude Rains. It turns out that these villains are after plutonium in order to make an atom bomb, a plot that was unique at the time but has been done to death ever since. (IGN FilmForce)
Warren Cowan, 87; legendary Hollywood publicist May 18, 2008
In a more than 60-year career that continued until his death, Cowan represented an array of stars, including Kirk Douglas, Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, Steve McQueen, Natalie Wood, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn and the Doors. "He was a giant," Dale Olson, a veteran entertainment publicist who spent 17 years at Rogers as a key executive, told The Times on Thursday. (Los Angeles Times)
'Dancing' accelerates Taylor's transition to Tinseltown May 18, 2008
And how about Cary Grant. "The romantic thing I can do," Taylor says. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
27 Dresses DVD Review May 18, 2008
Heck, we ll show up to watch the same people fall in love all over again, from Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, to Doris Day and Rock Hudson, Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. According to director Anne Fletcher in the DVD featurette The Wedding Party , 27 Dresses aspires to the pantheon of the latter couple. (Suite101.com)
The week's best films May 17, 2008
Based on a CS Forester tale of derring-do in Napoleonic Spain, Kramer's adventure has a suitably exotic cast: Frank Sinatra as a guerrilla leader, Sophia Loren his girl, making Spanish eyes at upright British naval officer Cary Grant. The three are locked in a hot-blooded struggle to shift a giant cannon hundreds of miles across baking Spain. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Star publicist Warren Cowan dies in L.A. May 16, 2008
Among their clients: Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Doris Day, Clint Eastwood, Gene Kelly, Lucille Ball, John Wayne, Cary Grant, Danny Kaye and Arnold Schwarzenegger. When asked who his favorite client was, he always answered, The next one. (MSNBC -- News)
