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Something in Forsythe's uncomplicated manliness appealed to Alfred Hitchcock; maybe Hitch saw him as a domesticated Cary Grant, or Jimmy Stewart with better posture. He cast the young man as the lead in the grindingly whimsical 1955 comedy The Trouble With Harry. Playing a bohemian painter, when that occupation could seem a gentleman's calling, Forsythe is surrounded by a trio of Vermont eccentrics, all of whom believe they may have killed Harry. Forsythe, naturally, is the cave of common sense they retreat to for sage advice ("You're not supposed to bury bodies whenever you find them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charlie's an Angel Now: John Forsythe Dies at 92 | 4/3/2010 | See Source »

...more conversions in the immediate works - the number of new 3-D movies should be 19. Ten of these are animated features (beginning with Dragon and ending in December with Yogi Bear); four are extensions of B-movie franchises (Step Up 3D, Piranha 3-D, Jackass 3D and Saw VII); one is another concert film (Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D.) Two Disney films, Alice in Wonderland and Tron Legacy, are a mix of live action and digital fantasy. That leaves just two live-action movies - the Warner Bros. adventures Clash of the Titans and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 3-D Pileup: Too Many Movies, Not Enough Screens | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

...Second, on remaking an old favorite. I'll tell you why the middle-aged critical Cassandras remember the 1981 version as a movie milestone: because when they first saw it, they were 11. Not that it didn't boast its antique charms, mostly in Harryhausen's nifty-creaky beasties, but these scenes consume perhaps 15 mins. of a two-hr. movie. The rest is a botch, as storytelling or spectacle. First we're up on Olympus in the company of some swank Brit actors - Laurence Olivier as Zeus, Claire Bloom as Hera, Maggie Smith as Thetis - whose contempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash of the Titans: A Hit from a Myth | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

Ralphie A. Haro, a student body president from Miami, was at a friend’s house when he looked at his phone and saw that the e-mail had arrived. When he told his friend he was too scared to open it, his pal went into the next room, opened the e-mail for him, and announced that he had been admitted...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Introducing the Class of 2014 | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

After a month-long preseason slate that saw the Harvard softball team endure long plane flights, controversy over a newly-enforced pitching rule, and a 10-game losing streak, it’s finally time to really play ball...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: League Play Begins Today | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

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