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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.

I met Lisa Olmstead this past summer 2009 when WHC had their Dutch Oven demo with hot biscuits and kettle coffee.

A Royal Court Theater presentation of a play in two acts by Michael Wynne. Directed by Jeremy Herrin.

Michael Wynne seems to be charting the progress of his generation at seven-year intervals.

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 .

By 1938, producer-director Alfred Hitchcock felt he had nothing more to prove in his native England and was ready for Hollywood.

It's been a decade since Del Shores brought his play Sordid Lives to the screen.

Cinema is scale. Last spring, I saw again Hitchcock's gothic thriller Rebecca on the towering 40ft.-tall screen of a classic movie palace, Loew's Jersey Theatre in Jersey City, N.J. . Perhaps it was the antiquated 1.33 aspect ratio that made Hitch's silvery black-and-white images appear to loom far above.

"I made Peter Pan by rubbing the five of you violently together, as savages with two sticks produce a flame," J. M. Barrie wrote in his dedication to the first published edition of his play "Peter Pan." He was referring to the five comely sons of Arthur Llewelyn Davies and his wife, the former Sylvia du Maurier.

"Very few shows work globally," says director Francesca Zambello. "Most play better on one side of the Atlantic or the other.' Zambello, though, has a title with notoriety on both sides of the Pond -- "Rebecca," the classic British bestseller that was turned into an Oscar-winning best picture by Alfred Hitchcock, and which, in tuner form, is ...

Actress Faye Dunaway really was scouting locations a few months ago when she had a private party at the Book-Cadillac Hotel's champagne bar.

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 ...

A. O. Scott at the New York Times revisits Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo . In a video clip the Times put together, video producer Gabe Johnson says: "This movie shows Hitchcock at the very pinnacle of his powers.

When the Academy Awards for 1940 were announced, at LA's Biltmore Hotel on February 27 1941, it was a bittersweet night for Alfred Hitchcock.

As the 1950s rolled in director King Vidor's brilliant but eccentric pictures became much more eccentric than brilliant.

Got any Best Picture favorites yet? With a 10-team race, anyone is game. Heck, one wouldn't be surprised if "Love Happens" gets a nod.

Much of the focus is on the king of the thriller, Alfred Hitchcock and his films.

A superior entertainment in every regard, Alexander Korda's That Hamilton Woman is sometimes dismissed as a propaganda picture made in Hollywood by refugees from the London Blitz.

The Streetgirl: And then? Emma: Then what? The Streetgirl: What happened after? Emma: There is no then.

Left, Dr Pretesh Shah and right, Dr Andrew Ventour. A A DOCTOR described as a drug deal middle man, and another caught with the anaesthetic drug Ketamine, appeared before the Isle of Wight Crown Court last Friday.