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The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute opens its "Eternal Return" film series with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock's classic "Vertigo," on Thursday, Jan.

Remember a few weeks back when Kim Novak took out a trade ad to say she felt like she'd been raped by the use of Bernard Herrmann's "Scene d'Amour" from his Vertigo score in The Artist ? IndieWire's Press Play blog just held a contest that invited participants to test the theory that you can add new meaning and emotion to any piece of film, from ... (more)

The widow of Vertigo composer Bernhard Herrmann, has entered the row about the use of her husband's music in The Artist.

I post a weekly diary of the historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I featured this past week in "Cheers & Jeers". For example ..... ART NOTES - an eight-painting exhibit of Monet's Water Lilies ends at the Saint Louis, Missouri Art Museum today, January 22nd.

If Kim Novak sincerely thought that hearing music cues from Vertigo in The Artist was tantamount to artistic "rape," then wait until she gets a look at the expropriation binge underway at Press Play .

Kim Novak's ad in the Jan. 9 edition of Daily Variety, saying she felt "violated" by the use of music from "Vertigo" in "The Artist," generated dozens of stories and even more blogosphere entries, many focused on her incendiary rhetoric .

Long-planned, it now seems to be happening. That makes you laugh? That amuses you? 3. The transformation scene in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast 3-D." Sti ll magical after more than 20 years.