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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
When Toby Young dreamed of how his glittering journalistic career would be immortalised on celluloid he had in mind an updated version of the 1940s films His Girl Friday and The Philadelphia Story. The raincoat and porkpie hat-wearing hacks played by Cary Grant in these films were the types Young had expected to meet when he crossed the pond to work in New York in the mid-Nineties. He was disappointed...
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Screenhead (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
What’s in a year? We all can recall the defining moments in history, where we were, what we were doing, etc. But did cinema, the most popular medium, join us in those thoughts and feelings? Was cinema able to represent its times, or was it too far behind? Below is a list of possibly the [...]
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All About My Movies (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
01. Jake Gyllenhaal & Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain 02. Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman, Notorious 03. Marlon Brando & Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire (not quite but still) 04. Gregory Peck & Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday 05. Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall, The Big Sleep 06. Kenneth Branagh & Emma Thompson, Much Ado About Nothing 07. Adam Sandler & Emily Watson, Punch-Drunk Love 08. Clark Gable...
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Ok so I'm still actually in SoCal see learning the language. I was getting fed up of choosing the same location each time so thought I would have a change. My heart was in Blackburn this morning though. Or at least my football team. That's football as in socccrrrr as some would say over here. The game was live on Fox Sports Soccer at 9.30am an almost sensible time compared to the UK l
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The Shallow End (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Your result for The Classic Dames Test...Katharine HepburnYou scored 12% grit, 29% wit, 62% flair, and 10% class! You are the fabulously quirky and independent woman of character. You go your own way, follow your own drummer, take your own lead. You stand head and shoulders next to your partner, but you are perfectly willing and able to stand alone. Others might be more classically beautiful or
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And then I woke up... (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Your result for The Classic Dames Test...Katharine HepburnYou scored 21% grit, 43% wit, 43% flair, and 2% class! You are the fabulously quirky and independent woman of character. You go your own way, follow your own drummer, take your own lead. You stand head and shoulders next to your partner, but you are perfectly willing and able to stand alone. Others might be more classically
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Curmudgeonry (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Myrna Loy You are class itself, the calm, confident "perfect woman." Men turn and look at you admiringly as you walk down the street, and even your rivals have a grudging respect for you. You always know the right thing...
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Uncool (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Errol Flynn Rock Hudson Cary Grant John Derek James Dean Clarke Gable from big fun Jean Gabin, from big fun Gregory Peck, from That Obscure Object
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Canadian photographer's celebrity portraits avoided cynicism and remain revealing decades on.
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AskMen.com (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Doc Love knows that a divorce can be messy, but he also knows that it doesn't have to ruin your romantic future.
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Far and away the most handsome and charismatic man in Hollywood was Paul Newman - or 'PL' as he liked his friends to call him (his middle name was Leonard).
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Paul Newman was blessed with abnormally good looks and abnormally good scripts, but also something more: that magical quiddity that makes you celebrate someone for his strokes of good fortune. On the evidence of dozens of performances, he possessed no...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Peter Gunn was a hit TV crime show with jazz at its center that ran from 1958 to 1961, with Craig Stevens (described as "a poor man's Cary Grant") as the stylish, jazz-loving private detective title character, and often directed by Blake Edwards, who would go on...
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Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Based on Toby Young's tome about his spectacular fuckups and flame-out at Vanity Fair , Robert Weide's big-screen version is sitcom-drab. Simon Pegg plays Young, reducing the writer—in the book, a narcissistic twat who aspired to be Cary Grant in His Girl Friday , sans the l...
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American Spectator (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Old Hollywood peaked that year, giving us everything from Gunga Din to Gone With the Wind to Stagecoach to The Women -- which is why you'll want to miss the new remake of the last.
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