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More than any other star, writers like to dish the dirt on Cary Grant, the lead in Affair to Remember.   At various times I have read he was flagrantly gay as he shared a house with Randolph Scott, his real name was Archie Leach, he was a Nazi spy and – unknown to him – his mother was [...]

This is the third film I have seen on the Israeli raid on Entebbe in 1976 and much the worst. The opening shot defined the film: it is of a modern dance troupe sitting in a circle singing an Israeli song when one falls from her chair. The film frequently returns to this dance troupe particularly [...]

Stefano Ursolini writes: Neil Rosen asked for my comments on this film directed by that eminent Florentine Franco Zeffirelli. It depicts his youth. He was the illegitimate son of a Florentine businessman who ran way aged 16 to join the partisans and enlisted with the Scots Guards in the difficult [...]

Many years ago I was asked to advise on a copyright issue by the widow of the comedian Freddie Frinton. Her late husband had the rights passed to her of a sketch he put on in music hall in Blackpool called Dinner for One. The film of this is played every year on German TV and other countries and is [...]