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Article: Is Hugh the new Cary Grant?
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 26, 2002
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Byline: CHRISTOPHER TOOKEY
AFTER seeing Hugh Grant in the quintessentially British Four Weddings And A Funeral, the role that catapulted him to worldwide fame, I first compared him with Cary Grant.
With the release today of another certain Hugh Grant hit, About A Boy, the similarities between the two actors - who combine charm and good looks with a mastery of comic timing - are becoming hard to ignore. Both were born in England, have similar Byronic sex appeal, look good in suits, and excel at playing well-heeled characters.
They're the kind of men who you'd expect to find driving an open-top convertible with a pretty girl in the passenger seat ...