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The Producers Guild of America has selected 'Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire' as the winner of its Stanley Kramer Award.

But that's how Tony Curtis got his start, he told an audience of 100 or so fans in Huntington Friday night.

Actor Tony Curtis, during an interview ahead of Sunday's visit to The Avon Theatre in Stamford, recalled a late 1950s drive up the California coast with legendary leading man Cary Grant.

For screen legend Tony Curtis, making his signature film, the cross-dressing comedy "Some Like It Hot," was anything but a drag.

Spent Spent is so funny - and so brilliantly and skillfully performed by its two bouffon players - that you can't help wishing the concept went further than it does.

''Feh'' and ''meh'' are used similarly, but the former generally connotes disgust and the latter indifference.

And in case you youngsters out there are wondering, Stanley Kramer was, of course, the producer/director behind such films as High Noon , The Defiant Ones , Judgement at Nuremberg , and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner .

Dear Ken: We think that Sidney Poitier is the greatest African-American actor of all time.

US honours 'agents of change' Film legend Sidney Poitier has been presented with America's highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Barack Obama.

Despite its distracting adherence to faux-doc style, Blomkamp's District 9 is a visionary take on first contact Josef Braun / josef@vueweekly.com Not invaders so much as castaways, the aliens wash up over Johannesburg, their great ship looming, suspended and ominously silent for a long while until we humans finally break in and discover the lot of ...

President Barack Obama wants to honor "agents of change" in presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

In the end, the great White House Suds Summit failed to live up to Sly Stone's basic definition of "hot fun in the summertime." The punchline we dared to imagine a week ago went as flat as day-old lager.

President Barack Obama wants to honor "agents of change" in presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

There is something wonderfully romantic and tragic about old Hollywood. Unattainably beautiful women and men said terribly smart, touching and funny things while setting standards even beyond their own grasps.

BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK: Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 thriller "To Catch a Thief" stars Cary Grant and Grace Kelly and screens as part of the park's summer series "Movies With a View." Thursday at sunset.

Percival Everett made news 20 years ago at the South Carolina State House, where he stopped in the middle of a speech - he had been invited by the Legislature - and refused to go on because of the presence of the Confederate flag.

A Flatbush native, Cara Williams was born Bernice Kamiat on June 29, 1925. She began her acting career as a child and moved on to Hollywood in her teens.

A former child actor, Cara Williams was a steady presence in features and television from the 1940s through the 60s.

Percival Everett has been publishing continuously since 1983. His work spans multiple genres, including novels, short stories, poetry and a children's book.

Date: Monday, July 27th Time: Films begin at Dusk Location: Bryant Park Cost: Free Bring your picnic baskets and pull up some lawn for an evening under the stars with the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival .