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The Nick and Nora that I know!

This week saw the release of trailers for two films that will debut at the Toronto Film Festival in September and then hit theaters nationwide on the same day in October: Rachel Getting Married (Sony Pictures Classics, 10/3, trailer), the Jonathan Demme-directed family drama starring Anne Hathaway, and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (Sony, 10/3, trailer), which stars Michael Cera opposite Kat Dennings, who is currently best known for playing Catherine Keener's daughter in The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005). Both trailers are well done and worth a look.

Just one more thing, in case your mind works at all like mine: when I saw the names Nick and Norah in the second movie's title, I immediately wondered—and worried—whether or not it had anything to do with the legendary 1930s screen couple Nick (William Powell) and Nora (Myrna Loy) Charles of The Thin Man series. I checked it out and here's the deal: the film itself has nothing to do with the martini-sipping duo... but the choice to pair the two names may well be a wink-wink tribute to them by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, the authors of the script's source novel. The one hitch in that theory is that Loy was Nora, without an 'h,' whereas Dennings is Norah, with an 'h,' although that may just be a result of carelessness or merely adopting the more common modern day spelling (think NBC's Norah O'Donnell or singer Norah Jones). Okay, okay, enough already...