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...Hayworth and Jack Lemmon, to screenings of rare early Frank Capra dramas, and to a fresh batch of underseen 1930s-40s B movies for viewers to discover and analyze. Lately, the network has been showing British films of the same period. Along with stars like Leslie Howard and Robert Donat, shining on their home turf, we've seen important oddities like the 1939 The Frozen Limits, featuring the Crazy Gang, the comedy sextet that set the anarchic tone for the Goons and Monty Python...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 15 Reasons to Love Turner Classic Movies | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...term romantic comedy-thriller stirs many affable memories and, when it is attached to a new film, a few fond hopes. Think of Robert Donat, suave fugitive of The 39 Steps, double-talking his way out of a political rally and into the clutches of the man with the missing fingertip. Or Cary Grant doing anything in almost any Hitchcock caper: wooing Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief, dodging a malefic crop duster in North by Northwest. Grant also adorned the genre's apogee, Stanley Donen's Charade, in which the star has five identities and a protective lust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MURDER IN THE WORST DEGREE LEGAL EAGLES Directed by Ivan Reitman Screenplay by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...liberals seek succor from the ancient texts too; it is easy to read Harris' novel on political intrigue in Ciceronian Rome as a critique of the idea that external threats justify politicians taking extraordinary power. But why this sudden thing for the toga-and-sandals set? Quid donat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture: Virgil Goes Viral | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

...book also sheds light on some of the infamous rumors circulating around Hitchcock. He apparently never left Madeleine Carroll and Robert Donat handcuffed together for a whole day while shooting The 39 Steps, nor his daughter Pat suspended on a ferris wheel in the dark for hours on the set of Strangers on a Train. It does appear however that he said, “Actors are cattle,” though he denies it, and that there was a great deal of tension between him and Tippi Hedren after filming The Birds and Marnie together...

Author: By Jayme J. Herschkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hitchcock Bio Gives Reader Vertigo | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...vision and skill have opened new frontiers for transplant surgery. Thanks to Najarian's work, diabetics are no longer told that transplants are too risky for them. And it was Najarian who proved that patients could safely receive kidneys donat-ed by living relatives. "We're not talking about just any doctor," says ethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania, "but a giant of 20th century medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONCE A HERO | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

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