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...Little Foxes, she played Lou Gehrig's wife in The Pride of the Yankees and won an Oscar for her role as Greer Garson's daughter-in-law in Mrs. Miniver. Her wholesome but refined screen presence graced some of the best films of the '40s, including Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt and William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives. Still, she was fired by her benefactor, Samuel Goldwyn, for refusing to don swimsuits for publicity photos. "I'm just not the glamour type," she said...
What do they sound like? Well, Meloy’s songwriting does echo the sound of bands like Neutral Milk Hotel, Belle & Sebastian, and Robyn Hitchcock, who affix pop sensibilities on intricate, narrative lyrics. But perhaps musical reference points aren’t the best way to describe what makes Meloy’s songs so indelible. More than anything else, Meloy is like a musical version of writer/publisher Dave Eggers and much of the McSweeney’s coterie, effortlessly blending wry tongue-in-cheek humor with genuinely-felt storytelling...
...Hawks' Rio Bravo, with Sheriff John Wayne and his ragtag deputies holding off a jail raid, and George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, in which the zombies attack a house in a cemetery and just keep on coming. He also laced his movie with references to Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford and Sergio Leone movies. As he did in his next film, the horror hit Halloween, Carpenter broke a few rules, as when he put a cute 10-year-old in and out of peril and then--bang!--killed her off, but his style is classic: lots of three...
...game-winning tally came on the power play for the Wildcats. At 12:20 of the final frame, Jennifer Hitchcock pounced on a rebound following a slap shot by Jackie Wedster. Harvard junior goalie Ali Boe could not corral the first shot and allowed Hitchcock to pick it up and finish the scoring chance...
ANALYSIS: Make no mistake. Despite importing coach Guy Gadowsky from Alaska and bringing in NHL coach Ken Hitchcock as a pre-season volunteer, Princeton is still, and always will be, awful. The Tigers still lack the talent to compete for a shot at .500 at the end of the day, and will certainly finish in last yet again this year. But Princeton fans shouldn’t lose heart. If recent history is any indication, the Tigers will still be just good enough to beat Harvard...