Sylvia Scarlett News

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.

Elegant. Witty. Stylish. A totally original talent. "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant even I want to be Cary Grant," he was fond of saying.

Liev Schreiber as Vilma in "Taking Woodstock" So I'm watching Taking Woodstock , Ang Lee's charmer about Elliot Tiber , who inadvertently made the storied Festival happen, and in walks Vilma, a musclebound blonde in a candy-pink dress, resembling Mamie Van Doren with stubble.

Katharine Hepburn's transvestite role -- she is disguised as an adolescent boy in the company of her fugitive father -- is really not much more out of character, nor more unwholesome, than most of her early roles.