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Award winners from 2008 can be found here , 2007 here , 2006 here , and 2005 here .] A fairly thin year for our genre, with only two romantic comedies that are likely to endure and find their place in the greater rom-com canon, one a trailblazer and one decidedly old guard traditional.

You know how TV commercials are louder than the regular programming? It recently became a national issue.

There's much more at play in the recent spate of adulterous liasons made public than simply leering nosiness, and a seemy delight in watching the mighty and the accomplished dragged through the mud.

That immortal line was supposedly spoken by, yes, Cary Grant, who I've got on the mind today.

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They are the very definition of debonair: elegant, gracious, well-bred. Classic movie stars Cary Grant and Ronald Colman are also suave, sophisticated and, oh, so handsome.

These movies helped Americans laugh their way through earlier tough times, with wisecracks, wit, and innuendo.

The Awful Truth stars Irene Dunne and Cary Grant , as a couple getting divorced.

The Awful Truth stars Irene Dunne and Cary Grant , as a couple getting divorced.

The Awful Truth stars Irene Dunne and Cary Grant , as a couple getting divorced.

The Awful Truth stars Irene Dunne and Cary Grant , as a couple getting divorced.

The Awful Truth stars Irene Dunne and Cary Grant , as a couple getting divorced.

'EVERYBODY wants to be Cary Grant," the iconic actor is supposed to have once joked.

On the front page of the Weekend Arts section on Friday, the Times published an above-the-fold celebration of the work of Cary Grant so backhanded and begrudging as to be genuinely mystifying.

Old movies - I'm talking about those made before the 1970s - come to us in packages these days.

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The title of The Ugly Truth echoes that of The Awful Truth , the 1937 Cary Grant-Irene Dunne battle-of-the-sexes film that essentially invented the comic-romantic persona that Grant would wear with such panache for the duration of his career.

Like most women in movies right now, Katherine Heigl was born in the wrong decade.

With its impossibly attractive leads and gorgeous photography by cinematographer Conrad L. Hall, the oddball Western with the famous freeze-frame ending has always been easy on the eyes.

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