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Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 black and white spy thriller The 39 Steps has been given a vividly colorful stage adaptation by a troupe of four British actors who’ve brought their madcap show to Broadway after an award-winning run on the West End. Adapted from a 1915 novel by John Buchan, the movie concerns the dashing but vague Richard Hannay, who gets ensnared in a deadly game of cat and mouse after shots ring out at a London music hall. In the ensuing stampede, a woman bluntly asks to go home with him and, once there, reveals that she’s a spy trying to stop a plot to smuggle British military secrets out of the country.

Known for her smoky voice and role as Bob Newhart's no-nonsense wife in The Bob Newhart Show, Suzanne Pleshette died at age 70 last night. Pleshette had suffered from lung cancer in recent years.

Tom Snyder died today, at age 71, after losing a long battle with leukemia. There are many videos with footage of his long career, because just about everyone wanted to talk to him (especially on "The Tomorrow Show" which aired after Johnny Carson in the '70s and '80s).

Film Forum

7:06PM First thoughts: Gael Garcia Bernal is so cute. Ryan Seacrest is an idiot, as are Joan and Melissa Rivers. But we want to know what Jennifer Lopez is wearing! (It turns out to be Marchesa.)

Two quite controversial and buzzed about movies hit New York theaters this weekend. So far the critical opinion of raving lunatic Mel Gibson's new foreign language feature, . Now we finally get to see the film they thought was going to be such a public relations nightmare. Leo plays a South African diamond smuggler who teams up with a Sierra Leone farmer (the always excellent Djimon Hounsou) to outwit a syndicate of businessmen. From the trailers it looks pretty heartpounding, and not just because the lovely Jennifer Connelly is also in it.

, the Hitchcock classic starring Jimmy Stewart as a lovelorn, neurotic detective following the mysterious Kim Novak all over San Francisco, you're missing out. It's brilliant, strange and very beautiful—all adjectives Lynch seems to aspire to in his moviemaking.

Robert Altman, maverick film director, died on Monday night in Los Angeles. He was 81 years old.

about a tiny jewel thief and the family who puts him in diapers thinking he's a sweet baby. Awww, isn't it adorable when Marlon smacks Shawn upside the head with a frying pan?

MOVIES: Don't forget, the Bryant Park movies start tonight! The movie won't begin until sunset - which is about the same time the rain and thunder are scheduled to begin. Tonights features in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller, The Birds. Be an early bird (heh) and get there at 5 for a good spot on the lawn!

ART: papermag.com celebrates it's 10th year with Manhattan! We recently had a chance to stop by this group exhibition which features over 75 Big Apple-based artists from past to present, and have never enjoyed a gallery show more (of course, it was the opening and they were passing out champagne with Red Bull in it.) The loose theme of the show is "People of New York." To the right is the Yeah Yeah Yeah's Nick Zinner's untitled work, taken in Brooklyn in 2000.

It’s that time of the year again – that special time you brave New York’s notoriously humid and sticky summer to battle for one more blanket inch on a crowded park lawn. This year’s free outdoor movie festivals – RiverFlicks, Riverside Park Movies Under the Stars, Brooklyn Music & Movies Series, and HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival–offer a wide range of musicals and old favorites, from The Sound of Music to The Big Lebowski (see below for June/July schedule). Also be sure to check out the Rooftop Films series, showcasing short, low-budget and underground films every Friday at Automotive High School in Williamsburg and every Saturday at Old American Can Factory in Brooklyn at 9:00 PM; $8.

With one of the largest moviegoing populations in the U.S, the City Council is making sure that New Yorkers can get the most out of their trips to the movies. Yesterday, a bill was proposed to make sure movie theaters list the actual movie start times - not when advertising and previews begin. City Councilwoman Gail Brewer told the media:

"We can't outlaw advertising. But at least we can tell the industry that they have to be honest about when their movies start, not their ads."

Gothamist applauds the spirit of the bill, but we thinks it's a little off. People should get into their seats by the start of the previews, but, given the already stupid antics of some moviegoers, we want to ensure that people aren't coming in late during a movie's opening. Movie theaters are arguing that people already know that movie start times include ads and previews, but Gothamist would like to say, "Yeah, but we didn't know we'd have 20 minutes of pure promotional drivel before seeing four not-that-great previews." If we had our druthers, we'd like to know how long the ads would be, what previews there were ... oh, screw it, Gothamist is a psycho about being at the movies on time...we're the losers waiting in the hall while the theater is being cleaned out.

(1959). Tickets only cost $5.50 (what a steal for a movie in Manhattan!) and the live pre-show event starts promptly at 7 pm.

Jay Brida, Publisher/Copywriter

A huge bust of Alfred Hitchcock was unveiled at Gainsbourough Studios in England, to celebrate the director and his work at the studio where some of his early films were made. Gothamist loves the sentiment, but is it just us or does he look more like an wider, wooden version of an Easter Island statue?

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Yes, today is Alfred Hitchcock's birthday. Gothamist finds the Google tribute funny, especially since we all know the bird will poop on Hitch's head, which is a nod for Hitch's fondness for poop humor.

Yay! Spellbound finally opens at Film Forum today! Gothamist has been following this spelling bee documentary for a while, and will try to make it to West Houston today to see it. A.O. Scott loves the film, and mentions, one contestant, "Harry, a voluble boy from New Jersey, who struggles with an Anglo-Saxon plural noun (to write it would be to spoil one of the film's most excruciating and hilarious moments) referring to a religious practice he's never heard of." Harry is from Glen Rock, where I spent my 0-12 years.