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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.

Jonah Hill is joining the cast of a new comedy!

Clayton Davis If there’s a Hollywood equivalent to a cinematic President’s Day, it has to be the birthday of Katharine Hepburn, who was born on May 12, 1907. The legendary actress, who passed away in June 2003, was a revered figure in the City of Stars and set a standard for every actor or actress who wants respect from their peers.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaFrances McDormand won best actress at Sunday’s Academy Awards for portraying Fern, a woman who takes to the road after the plant in her small-town closes down, in “Nomadland.” It’s McDormand’s third win in the category, tying her with Meryl Streep and Ingrid Bergman, who each have three victories and within striking distance of the current record-holder, Katharine Hepburn, who has four statues.In her acceptance speech, McDormand suggested that there

Giorgio Armani has been Glenn Close’s preferred designer for more than 30 years, starting with the first suit she purchased at Barneys (the look still resides in her closet). The legendarydesigner dressed Close in 1990 for the Kennedy Center Honors, where the actress paid tribute to Katharine Hepburn.

Academy Awards: The Complete Unofficial History,” told The Post. “It’s as if they’re either priceless or worthless.

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.

spray-painted a racial slur on the front gate in 2017. James has since upgraded to a $36.75 million Mediterranean-style Beverly Hills mansion in October. The home once belonged to Katharine Hepburn. Meanwhile, he still has another Brentwood home he bought in 2017 for $23 million.

The Facts of Life, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Phyllis, Malcolm in the Middle, American Gods, Raising Hope, The Longest Yard,Bad Santa, Touched by an Angel, The Love Boat, Lassie, andPerry Mason. She also worked with fellow Hollywood legends like Katharine Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, and Paul Newman, and appeared in three films helmed by famed director Mel Brooks: Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety and History of the World: Part 1.Despite her successful career in show business, Leachman never

Mindy Kaling gave her kids “classic” names so they wouldn’t be “furious” with her when they got older. The 41-year-old actress is mother to Katherine Swati, three, and Spencer Avu, three months, and she chose their monikers in tribute to Hollywood legends Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy but admitted she wouldn’t have “trusted [her] judgement” with more unconventional choices.

Ron Gilbert, an Emmy-nominated producer and partner with David Susskind in the indie production company Talent Associates Ltd that was behind TV series like Get Smart and movies including Straw Dogs and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, died of heart failure December 4 at his Los Angeles home. He was 87.

Naman Ramachandran The U.K.’s Embankment Films has launched worldwide sales ahead of the Toronto Film Festival on “Call Me Kate,” a feature documentary on Katharine ‘Kate’ Hepburn, the actor from Hollywood’s Golden Age.The feature documentary is from director Lorna Tucker (“Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist”) and produced by Salon Pictures, the producers of the BAFTA nominated “McQueen.”Hepburn was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, winning a record four for best actress.

STRATFORD, Conn. -- A group of theater and business professionals is hoping to rebuild a renown Shakespearean theater in Connecticut that burned to the ground last year.

LOS ANGELES — The emerald and diamond engagement ring that Howard Hughes gave to Hollywood star Katharine Hepburn in 1938 sold for US$108,000 at a Los Angeles auction – more than three times the expected price – while a collection of her love letters to him fetched $44,800.Auction house Profiles in History said on Friday that other personal items belonging to Hughes also went for more than their pre-sale estimates, including the entrepreneur’s trademark fedora (US$51,200) and the two-tone jacket

LOS ANGELES — The emerald and diamond engagement ring that Howard Hughes gave to Hollywood star Katharine Hepburn in 1938 sold for US$108,000 at a Los Angeles auction – more than three times the expected price – while a collection of her love letters to him fetched $44,800.

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LOS ANGELES — She signed off as “Country Mouse” and called him “My most excellent boss.”She was Hollywood star Katharine Hepburn and he was eccentric entrepreneur Howard Hughes.

LOS ANGELES — She signed off as “Country Mouse” and called him “My most excellent boss.”

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy’s romance was one of Hollywood’s greatest real-life love stories of all time. As complicated as it was, Hepburn and Tracy’s unbreakable bond stretched across three wonderful decades and always remained their little secret.

With four wins from 12 nominations, the late Katharine Hepburn holds the record for most Academy Award wins. Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson and Daniel Day-Lewis trail her with three a piece. 

Bob Avian will never forget the moment Michael Bennett told him he had AIDS. The two had been friends since 1959, when they met as dancers on a tour of “West Side Story.”

The 92nd Academy Awards nominations were announced Monday morning with Little Women (2019) earning six Oscar noms, bringing the total nominations for all adaptations of the novel to 14.Though the first feature-length adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel was a silent film released in 1918 (it was filmedin and around Alcott’s home in Concord, Massachusetts), the 1933 version starring Katharine Hepburn was the first to be nominated by the Academy; it earned nominations for best picture and best