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10/17/2008: "Cary Grant"
Nope, I haven't forgotten the Cary Grant Project. I've just got a lot of stuff and only a little time. My expectations were low for "Walk Don't Run" -- I'd never seen it, and the reviews didn't seem all that flattering -- but I liked it. It was Cary Grant's last movie and kind of unusual in that there wasn't really a woman for him -- he talked to his wife on the phone a couple times -- and he was playing a Brit, which I'd guess was pretty rare (other than "Pride And Passion") since his very early non-featured parts. It was mostly about Cary Grant not being able to find a room during the Tokyo Olympics and ending up sharing a much younger woman's apartment, which led to him trying to fix her up with an American "athlete". There were lots of gags on the level of making fun of all the Japanese bowing and Cary Grant's advancing years: much squinting to read and being offended that no one was shocked, or at least impressed, that he was sharing an apartment with a younger woman; everyone just assumed they were related. Then again, we're not talking some high-minded Chekhov thing. But Sulu was in it, pre-Star Trek, in a very small role. 