Cary Grants Suit: Nine Movies That Made Me the Wreck I Am Today McEwen Todd

A cinematic memoir and critical exploration of nine classics of old Hollywood by a contemporary comic novelist. The suit has the adventures, a gorgeous New York suit threading its way through America. "North by Northwest isn't about what happens to Cary Grant, it's about what happens to his suit.

Nothing bad happens to it until one of the greasy henchmen grasps Cary by the shoulder. The suit, Cary inside it, strides with confidence into the Plaza Hotel. We're already in love with this suit and it feels like a real violation."Todd McEwen grew up in Southern California, so his head was hopelessly messed with by the movies.

As the son of relatively normal people, Todd had no in with Hollywood, a mere thirteen miles away, yearn and try as he might.This is a kid who loved the movies so much, he got up at 4:30 in the morning to watch Laurel and Hardy.