Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardly in it. To flesh out Mamet's bare-bones script, Steel and her boss Ned Tanen wanted De Palma. "In the past," she says, "Brian hasn't chosen the material that was worthy of him and that he was worthy of. He was making homages to Alfred Hitchcock. This one is a homage to Brian De Palma -- he felt it instead of directing it. With this picture he became a mensch." It surely marked a ! change from the snazzy, derivative thrillers (Carrie, Body Double) and dope operas (Scarface) that made him notorious. The new picture would be neither parody...
...opened an envelope with Porter's name on it and found songs by him I didn't even know had existed." Further burrowing yielded the Holy Grail of show-tune scholarship: more than 175 unpublished Kern songs. "In sheer numbers and quality it's extraordinary," says H. Wiley Hitchcock, a Brooklyn College musicologist. "It's like finding Leonardo's original sketchbooks...
...report also concluded that nicotine gum is a cost effective way of combatting smoking addiction. CVS in Harvard Square sells Nicorette--nicotine gum available by prescription--for $18.98 a pack, which includes 96 chewing gum pieces. Hitchcock said that the maximum amount used each day is between 10 and 15 pieces...
However, nicotine gum, which has been available in the United States for three years, is not without side effects, Hitchcock said. "It's not a magic pill," she said, adding that doctors often fail to provide necessary guidance when they prescribe the nicotine...
Other pharmocological possibilities include a nasal spray and a trans-dermal patch, said Hitchcock, who added that these products will not reach the market in the near future...