Holiday News

Hadlyme Public Hall where the Holiday Art Show will be held. 8th Annual Holiday Art Show and Handcraft Fair In this land of steady habits, Thanksgiving weekend in the hamlet of Hadlyme means that it's time for the holiday art show.

It's going to be a very special holiday for movie fans this year as Turner Classic Movies presents the rarely seen gem Remember the Night during a December packed with holiday favorites.

Movies at the Marquis will return to downtown Northville for a second year, with the first in the series starting Nov.

Cary Grant is dead, and with him dies an era in motion picture history. The man who combined debonair charm, classic grace and a subtle sense of the sinister in some 72 movies died late Saturday of a stroke in Davenport, Iowa.

FEW True Stories films have been as unlikely as Cat Dancers. A tragic tale stranger than most fiction, it began with a 70-year-old man displaying his bodybuilding equipment and donning an extraordinary wig.

"I want to find out why I'm working," Cary Grant tells Katharine Hepburn in "Holiday." Grant's character, a grocer's son who put himself through Harvard, wants to take time off from a promising business career, and Grant makes the proposal sound at once existential and lighthearted - as if he wants to investigate not because he's especially ...

Costume by Robert Kalloch , Katharine Hepburn in Holiday , 1938. Courtesy Everett Collection.

We've all had moments in our lives when something or possibly someone we once regarded very highly suddenly doesn't "do it" for us.

We've all had moments in our lives when something or possibly someone we once regarded very highly suddenly doesn't "do it" for us.

FOR much of the studio era, Columbia Pictures was essentially a Poverty Row operation.

I'm No Angel starring Mae West and Cary Grant. There's always a day or two over the summer when you look around and realize everyone's deserted you.

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

Actors and actresses come and go, but movie stars are forever. Or at least a really long time.

"The stuff dreams are made of," mutters sleuth-for-hire Sam Spade, referencing the titular black statue that's had everyone in a tizzy.

Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, once Broadway producers with hits like "Ragtime," deserve an 8- to 10-year prison sentence for defrauding investors of millions of dollars, prosecutor Alex Hrybinsky said today at the start of a hearing in Toronto.

Watch romantic Romantic films, from "Pride and Prejudice" to "Roman Holiday" Metromix May 19, 2009 Kiera Knightley in "Pride and Prejudice" Giving the phrase "cheap date" a fresh spin, the folks at Loews Ventana Canyon resurrect their free summer film series.

Governor Mark Sanford, in his press conference yesterday, said that he'd had "one of the most surreal conversations" with his father-in-law. Could it have been more surreal than the conversation he was having with that room of reporters and, by extension, the rest of us? The youthful travels, the "sparking" of the affair, the dinosaur sheets.

APPLAUSE BY DAVID A. ROSENBERG Born in Connecticut , died in Connecticut , Katharine Hepburn once wrote she felt "lucky" to live here.

There's a terrific exhibit for those visiting New York City. It's also worth the trip just for this: howing through Oct.

She introduced into her roles a strength of character previously considered to be undesirable in Hollywood leading ladies.