A Touch of Class.

MACLACHLAN, Kyle, 1959-; GRANT, Cary, 1904-1986

This is an article that focuses on the role of actor Kyle MacLachlan in the film "Touch of Pink." For someone who looks so straight, he's landed the weirdest roles. In David Lynch's Blue Velvet he was the small-town sleuth who received oral sex at knifepoint from Isabella Rossellini. In Touch of Pink, MacLachlan plays the legendary Cary Grant--or at least the spirit of Cary Grant, as the imaginary friend of a closeted gay Ismaili Canadian. Made for just $4 million, Touch of Pink created a sensation last January at the Sundance Film Festival, which led to a U.S. distribution deal and a flush of Hollywood interest in Rashid's career. Alim (Jimi Mistry), an Ismaili Canadian living in London, works as a photographer on movie sets, and shares a flat with his gay lover, Giles (Kristen Holden-Ried), an English economist.