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The 93-year-old Vertigo icon is making her feelings about Scandalous! abundantly clear — and casting, apparently, is just the beginning.Summary -Kim Novak slammed Sydney Sweeney’s casting in Scandalous!, the upcoming biopic about her 1950s affair with Sammy -Davis Jr., saying she “would never have approved.” -Novak’s beef isn’t just personal — she fears the film will reduce her complex romance with Davis to a purely sexual story because Sweeney “looks sexy all the time.” -Sweeney says she’s “incredibly honored” to play Novak — a sentiment her subject clearly does not share. Kim Novak would like the record to reflect that...

Today is the 65th anniversary of the release of the Hitchcock classic “Vertigo”. Today my head is spinning. Living in a nascent police state which used to be more democratic will do that to you. Vertigo. Today, I went on trial in Victoria. I had proudly sought prayer and spiritual communion with a Warthaurong man at an Anglican cathedral last year. Police removed me from that prayer and physically assaulted me when I protested loudly to them at being removed from my prayer at the entrance to a crowded cathedral. At this morning's hearing, I angrily told the magistrate that...

"OK, so Jimmy Stewart is sitting in his DeSoto right where that white minivan is parked — right there!" says author Aaron Leventhal, as knowledgeable an Alfred Hitchcock fanatic as you are bound to find. "And he's looking between those two pillars — right over here — at Kim Novak, who's coming out of her apartment building to get into her green Jaguar and go wandering through the city." We're standing at the corner of Mason and Sacramento streets atop Nob Hill in San Francisco, and we're about to follow, 50 years later, in the footsteps of Stewart, Novak —...