A gallery of Hitchcock's cool blondes from Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue

That photo of Marion Cotillard that I used below remind me of that Hitchcock photoshoot that Vanity Fair used in their Hollywood Issue this March. Here's a selection of today's leading ladies doing their best to emulate the greats of Hitch's era; Renee Zellweger as Kim Novak in Vertigo; Cate Blanchett as Grace Kelly in Rear Window (with hot Javier Bardem); Naomi Watts with 'Tippi' Hedren super-crazy upswept hair in Marnie; Keira Knightly as Joan Fontaine in Rebecca with Jennifer Jason Leigh as dykey Judith Anderson; Jodie Foster as 'Tippi' Hedren stuck in the telephone box in The Birds; Charlize Theron about to get strangled as Grace Kelly in Dial M for Murder; Gwyneth Paltrow as Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief with Robert Downey Jr as Cary Grant.

I saw a piece about this on the E Channel over the weekend and the woman from Vanity Fair came across as if she'd been on some herbal cigarettes. She was talking about working with Renee Zellweger and going (and I paraphrase here..): "Renee, like, was, really acting. She, like, saw the movie a hundred times and was watching it on the set so, like, when we went to shoot she was, like, really feeling it."

I don't care if Renee is feeling it or not, I just want her to open her damn eyes! If you look carefully, she actually does that in this photo. See, she doesn't have little slits, her eyes can actually open. Now all we have to do is get her to do that when she's making a film.