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DIED. Alfred Hitchcock, 80, master of suspense, who brought to more than 50 films his visions of menace and the unexpected; in Los Angeles (see CINEMA...
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...delicious, this role playing. Especially in its duplicity. For if TV reinforced both Hitchcock's wealth and his fame, making him the only director whose name above the title was more important than that of almost any star he could hire, it also did much more. The essentially false characterization of himself that he projected served to protect the privacy of a quiet, compulsively orderly man who was, in many of his attitudes, especially when he got to musing about sex, virtually an arrested adolescent. It also camouflaged facts that Hitchcock judged inimical to commercial success: that he took himself...
Mostly, he did, though the Motion Picture Academy, which likes to give its awards to people who trumpet the loftiness of their themes, contented itself with nominating Hitchcock five times as best director. The only Oscar he got was a career-end special. Even after his death last week at 80 in his Bel-Air home, there were implacably middlebrow critics insisting that Hitchcock never placed his impeccably subtle technique in the service of "serious" matters. As if his lifelong contemplation of the way disorder violently intrudes upon the blithe assumptions of ordinary men that the world is a logical...
...Alfred Hitchcock was awfully fat, but his face betrayed none of the joyous gluttony of our other great obese director, Orson Welles--a loquacious whale who would swallow the world. In Hitchcock's films, food was often associated with guilt; it was a sign of indulgence. Hitchcock was a perverse brat buried in mounds of stolid grey flesh--our naughtiest virtuoso...