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...Her mother, Janet Leigh, starred in all-time classics like Hitchcock's Psycho and the Manchurian Candidate....
...“I mean, the fact is the Richard Curtis brand was a billion-dollar set of movies,” Bevan says. “A billion plus,” Fellner says. The mood in the room stays genial, more or less....
...That grisly reality already inspired one lurid film, The Boston Strangler, made in 1968 with Tony Curtis as convicted killer Albert DeSalvo....
...“The end of history,” Curtis grins. “Wasn’t that intoxicating?” Like Curtis himself, such voices are now kept off screen....
...Six months before Marilyn Monroe appeared alongside Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot, Sidney Poitier co-starred in another movie with Curtis: The Defiant Ones, a landmark in the rise of the young Bahamian-American...
...At the desk of a bloodhound tax inspector (Jamie Lee Curtis, wonderful) the fabric of space-time is torn asunder....
...Here Fellowes and his partners (this film is directed by Simon Curtis) find themselves like comic book film-makers too, knocking out sequels on the fumes of fan service....
...Some of this echoes the films of documentary-maker Adam Curtis....
...As if created on a dare, the project is a Christmas movie of high Englishness with an apocalyptic kicker: Children of Men remade in the style of Richard Curtis, Threads with theme song by Michael Bublé....
...The Seminole Ritz in which Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis hide out in drag with Marilyn Monroe for company? Actually the Hotel del Coronado, San Diego. I know — the subterfuge....
...“I’m just a journalist,” Curtis says. “It’s not my job to offer solutions.” Curtis has been at the BBC since 1980. Before that, he briefly taught politics at Oxford....
...New Zealand stand-up Rose Matafeo stars in Curtis Vowell’s affable comedy Baby Done, the title drawn from the trifecta often believed to define adult life: mortgage, marriage then “baby — done”....
...While eye-catching characters abound, the central plot belongs to real estate mogul and Thrombey daughter Linda (Jamie Lee Curtis), youngest son and publishing magnate Walt (Michael Shannon), industrially...
...Singly or in groups, from Peter Bogdanovich, Bret Easton Ellis and Jamie Lee Curtis (Janet Leigh’s daughter) to a couch troupe weirdly comprising actor Elijah Wood and Psycho nut chums, they analyse, semiologise...
...‘Jason Bourne’ goes on UK release on July 29 Danny Leigh is an FT film critic Photographs: Alamy; Universal Pictures...
...Curtis asks, and Gerry glances around the place. “Everyone,” he replies....
...… TRAVEL The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos, by Patrick Leigh Fermor, edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper, John Murray, RRP£25 This final part of Leigh Fermor’s trilogy recounting...
...Weisz and Hiddleston obliterate memories of the last screen incarnators, Vivien Leigh and Kenneth More (1955)....
...We can make Tinker Tailor or a Coen Brothers or a Richard Curtis movie or a Rowan Atkinson movie and be equally proud of all of them....
...Mr Clegg joked he wanted Mr Leigh to come and help the Lib-Dems’ to raise funds....
...Curtis offered the world a more memorable legacy by giving it Jamie Lee Curtis, his daughter by Janet Leigh: a scream queen for the 1970s (Halloween), then a glamorously dependable actress for the rest of...
...Personal appearances from a long and diverse list, including John Waters, Stephen Frears, Samantha Morton, Mike Leigh and the festival’s new patron, Tilda Swinton, should also appeal to celebrity spotters...
...Jamie Lee Curtis When you’re the daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh you’ve probably grown up asking a lot of questions, and Curtis has made a successful sideline career out of answering them....
...No other writer-director in the world, except perhaps Mike Leigh, makes miserablism so incandescent....
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