Suspicion News

By Jill Jackson HOLLYWOOD ... I really don't know how to start this tirade. It's about People magazine naming Johnny Depp as the Sexiest Man Alive.

Alfred Hitchcock was prolific enough that though he's the most famous director in history the breadth of his filmography remains unseen to all but the most ardent admirers.

THE MOVIES: Ask the average moviegoer with at least a passing knowledge of film history to name some Hitchcock films, and they're more than likely to call up something from his late Universal period: Rear Window , Vertigo , Psycho , The Birds .

"Ridiculous." "Defies plausibility." "Blissfully divorced by logic." Then there are the contradictory comparisons.

Warner Home Entertainment and Turner Movie Classics have teamed up over the past year to release the "TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection." The collection consisted of 60 films in 15 themed groups, such as musicals, horror, romantic comedies and Best Picture Oscar winners.

"NORTH BY NORTHWEST'' Knowing a hawk from a handsaw Cary Grant stands along an utterly exposed stretch of prairie highway, only slowly realizing why a distant crop duster seems to be taking such a curious flight path.

The younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland, Joan Fontaine was a British actress known for her exceptionally poised performances in Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s, including Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca".... The younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland, Joan Fontaine was a British actress known for her exceptionally poised ...

No one can film a thriller quite like Alfred Hitchcock. Okay, Michael Jackson might give him a run for his money, but let's face it: Hitchcock is one of the quintessential thriller movie directors.

No 69: Joan Fontaine, 1917- Joan Fontaine was a delicately feminine adornment in movies for nearly 30 years and a fine actress.

Francois Truffaut's "Mississippi Mermaid," 7 p.m. daily through Thursday at Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., $6-$9 In the spring of 1962, the French New Wave filmmaker Francois Truffaut was preparing to direct the screen adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," the story of a society that burns books and the rebels who secretly memorize ...

A FEW WEEKS ago, I was having one of those wonderful nights we all have every so often.

A FEW WEEKS ago, I was having one of those wonderful nights we all have every so often.

Cary Grant's first screen partnership with Mae West was in " " [released in the USA on 9 February 1933]. And the Brooklyn Academy of Music has devoted August 3rd - 20th to screening Cary Grant classics.

It was at the insistence of Carole Lombard that Hitchcock temporarily depart from his famous genre of 'suspense' to direct a romantic-comedy titled 'Mr. & Mrs.

As the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat about to bring home a VIP at short notice, Clarissa Hailsham-Brown wants everything just so.

I'm actually praying for rain this weekend, because with the lineup on Turner Classic Movies, I'd love an excuse to stay indoors.

Action, romance and humor. Tickles your funny bone. Bachelor with sobriety flaws encounters teacher traveling with seven children; daughters of foreign diplomats.