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David Bowie unquestionably became a great rock star—the greatest ever, according to a tribute published by Rolling Stone after his death in 2016. Yet, it comes closer to the truth to call Bowie a “rock star,” the quotation marks suggesting that what Bowie created was a persona of the rock god, in much the same way that Cary Grant manufactured the quintessential image of the glamorous “movie star.”

exciting and neeeeew than that old show.There are two concurrent plots here, both of which play like rudimentary fan fiction. The Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith), who’s in poor health, is shocked when she learns she’s inherited a villa in the south of France from a summer fling decades earlier.

“Art of the Hollwood Backdrop” presents 22 immense canvases from classics like “North by Northwest,” “The Sound of Music” and “Ben Hur” that were were rescued from a musty MGM Studios basement.“The exhibition celebrates Hollywood’s masters of illusion and perspective, who heretofore have received little recognition for their talent or applause for their essential role in making film magic,” the museum said on its site.The backdrops, which are on loan from the University of Texas at Austin, were used in movies from 1938 through 1968, while some have not been tied to specific films.Curators Karen Maness and Thomas Walsh also sought to find and feature the forgotten artists behind each piece. The duo spent hours combing through oral histories and other archives and were able to identify about a dozen of the canvas creators.Maness, a professor at the University of Texas, wrote a book on the history of movie backdrops in 2016 and organized a similar exhibition at the college.That exhibit sold out regularly even during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, with attendees marveling at the gigantic Mount Rushmore canvas featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic thriller.“I carry it on with both a love of painting but also as an advocate for these artists to help them be seen in history.

Some of the biggest names in film, television and the Broadway stage won’t be making the coveted pilgrimage to Radio City Music Hall this June when the 75th annual Tony Awards are handed out, as such high-profile performers as Daniel Craig, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Katrina Lenk, Beanie Feldstein, Jane Lynch and Patrick J. Adams were not among the nominations announced this morning.

Gal Gadot is attached to star in and produce a remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic “To Catch a Thief” for Paramount Pictures, according to an individual with knowledge of the project.Eileen Jones has closed a deal to write the script. Plot details about the remake are being kept under wraps.Neal Moritz and Jaron Varsano are also attached to produce.The original 1955 film starred Cary Grant as a retired cat burglar who has to save his reformed reputation by catching an impostor preying on the wealthy tourists of the French Riviera.

Flying Over Sunset will end its limited engagement Broadway run three weeks earlier than planned, producer Lincoln Center Theater announced today. The musical, which imagines a meeting of the three real-life figures Aldous Huxley, Clare Boothe Luce and Cary Grant, will play its final performance at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on the afternoon of Sunday, Jan. 16.

Marilyn Stasio Theater CriticIn the midst of the deadly dull 1950s, Hollywood celebs Cary Grant, Claire Booth Luce and Aldous Huxley escape their ennui by dropping acid. No serious sex is involved and no one rushes out on a frantic candy run but much witty chitchat ensues in “Flying Over Sunset,” a stylish new Broadway musical by James Lapine (book), Tom Kitt (music) and Michael Korie (lyrics).Nowadays, people may do psychedelic drugs to celebrate a birthday.

Aldous Huxley, Cary Grant and Clare Boothe Luce – a grouping that might sound more like the set-up for a joke than the premise of a musical – were, in real life, proponents of lysergic acid diethylamide, what we’d now call early adopters.

Dan Stevens tapped into Cary Grant’s performance in The Philadelphia Story to inform his role as a romance-driven robot in Bleecker Street’s I’m Your Man, Germany’s official entry in the International Feature Oscar race.

Emmy winner Anthony Hemingway (Genius, American Crime Story) has signed on to direct a present-day “reimagining” of The Preacher’s Wife, featuring original cast member Courtney B. Vance, for Basset Vance Productions.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaEva Marie Saint is particular about one thing.“It’s Eva Marie, not Eva,” she says with the trademark lilt, the one that melted the likes of Marlon Brando and Cary Grant in such classics as “On the Waterfront” and “North by Northwest.”“I don’t want to embarrass you,” she adds to her temporarily flummoxed interviewer.

Every week, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Hollywood icons including Cary Grant, Bette Davis and Errol Flynn has gone up for sale. The first edition of the iconic board game was even named Murder at Tudor Close after the former hotel before it sold millions of copies around the world.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Another month, another array of Criterion Collection releases, and it’s a particularly great month of releases. First up, a crown jewel from the Howard Hawks’ oeuvre, the legendary screwball comedy “Bringing Up Baby” with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.

On March 14, 1966, Hollywood royalty, including Cary Grant, Natalie Wood and Gregory Peck, was out in full force at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. They were there to celebrate a real royal — His Royal Highness Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, who died on April 9 at age 99 — at a charity ball held in his honor.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentTo celebrate Variety’s 115th anniversary, we went to the archives to see how some of Hollywood’s biggest stars first landed in the pages of our magazine. Read more from the archives here.In 1929, Variety hated the musical comedy “A Wonderful Night” at Broadway’s Majestic Theater (“remarkably dull … the outlook for this one is dreary”).

“The Life Ahead” (in select theaters Friday, on Netflix Nov. 13).

“Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise” by Scott Eyman (Simon & Schuster)Self-trained English actor Archie Leach pulled off the role of a lifetime: becoming Hollywood legend Cary Grant.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorParamount Pictures senior VP of archives Andrea Kalas and her team have been bringing the studio’s vast back catalog into the digital age. Titles such as “King Creole” (1958), starring Elvis Presley; Alfred Hitchcock’s “To Catch a Thief” (1955), with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly; and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961), starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, were among the films restored and released.Sept.

EXCLUSIVE: Actor-comedian Billy Eichner and producer Tom McNulty are developing “Man in the Box,” a biopic based on the life of groundbreaking TV icon Paul Lynde. Eichner plans to star.

Imagine the scene, you’re driving past the Mediterranean under the cloudless sapphire blue skies of the French Riviera with Cary Grant by your side.Okay, so it might not be possible to recreate that famous Hitchcockian scene entirely, but whoever buys this 1954 Sunbeam Alpine MK1 will have a better chance than most.A version of the classic rally car - famously featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller To Catch A Thief - is going up for auction.The car gained iconic status after Grace Kelly

Talk about pressure! Tony Yazbeck’s feeling it. It’s not easy playing Cary Grant, the man he calls “the greatest movie star of all time.”

Some movie stars level a kind of divinity that transcends personal preference — woe betide the dissenter who openly finds Audrey Hepburn cloying, or Cary Grant less than charming. That Bruce Lee had long ascended to that level of iron-clad cool was underlined by the biggest popular quibble with “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” over the single scene when Mike Moh’s fictive Lee is portrayed as an arrogant, bullying jerk easily whupped by Brad Pitt’s stuntman Cliff.

“How do I know you aren't a murderer?” Eva Marie-Saint’s character asks Cary Grant’s character, flirtily, in the classic 1959 film North By Northwest. “Maybe you’re planning to murder me right here, tonight.”Fifty-six years later on The CW’s , Rachel Bloom sings to a guy she brings home from a bar, “Please don’t be a murderer.

Liam Neeson has been named as one of 37 living actors who were famously deprived of an Oscar.

Liam Neeson has been named as one of 37 living actors who were famously deprived of an Oscar.