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...seem to care very much about these neglects and misunderstandings. He had plenty of prizes; Queen Elizabeth knighted him this year, even though he had moved to Hollywood when he was 40 and had long since become a U.S. citizen. Young European c?astes, such as French Director-Critics Fran?s Truffaut and Claude Chabrol, began to write about Hitchcock's work with a seriousness that sometimes became unconsciously funny. But it was the beginning of a necessary reevaluation...
...Danbury, Conn., I wrote to Fran regularly, as well as to other friends from the past. One of the letters was to a woman I had known. At the nightly inspection and reading of mail one of the guards held the letter back until my next letter to Fran came out from me. He then switched letters and envelopes...
...When Fran got the wrong letter, she understood the guard's tactic immediately and it made her furious...
...about 3 a.m., when I eased my way into the bedroom, trying not to awaken Fran. After a moment she stirred...
...writing she left behind was indeed a scrappy oeuvre: 88 stories, 26 of them unfinished, many others juvenilia, sketches, magazine-formula pieces, experimental cul-de-sacs. Fortunately, among them were also shards of genius. Her best stories-At the Bay, Je ne parle pas français, The Daughters of the Late Colonel, The Garden Party, perhaps half a dozen others-leaped beyond the traditional 19th century tale in a few quick, bright strokes. Although they were short on narrative, the pieces proved startlingly fresh, almost hallucinatory in their vividness, yet anchored in wit and ruthless reportage...