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...game we're currently playing. What's happened in America since last September is that we have been, in effect, Europeanized. Over there, some time in the 19th Century, with the rise of revolutionary and anarchist movements - see, for example, Conrad's "The Secret Agent" or any number of Hitchcock movies - the possibility of the bomb on the crowded bus, the assassination in the concert hall became a possibility that ordinary citizens learned to live with. The immediate cause of World War One was such an act. Safe behind our oceans, we Americans were largely spared the murderous results...
...Alfred Hitchcock's films employ what the director called the MacGuffin--the object around which the plot seems to revolve. In the Thomas White Affair, the MacGuffin is the Crusader, an $11 billion piece of artillery that the Army long championed--until Rumsfeld axed the program last week. The tanklike Crusader has been in trouble for years, though that didn't keep the Army from fighting for it right up to the end. Rumsfeld had been thinking of killing it for months, but when he learned that Army officers had gone behind his back to try to save the program...
...DiMaggio checked in at the old speakeasies turned chic eateries, all within a few blocks of one another. The Stork Club, at 3 East 53rd Street, was the top spot - a 1945 movie was named for it, and the place could be seen in "All About Eve" and Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man" - but you could find plenty of notables inside El Morocco ("Elmo's," at 2nd Avenue and 54th Street) and The "21" Club (founded in 1921 at 21 West 52nd), with its wine cellar protected by a two-ton door, and (further west on 52nd) Toots Shor...
...Kong, its energy and women. There a freewheeling new cinema was taking off and, faster than you can say Chungking Express, the self-trained Doyle found himself at its center. The journey took him to Hollywood, where he added color to Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. And now Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence, his first Australian foray. "Yes, I'm from this place but I've been away for a while," says Doyle, 49, in his manic Mandarin-tinged accent, "so maybe I come back with a slightly different...
Eager to allay fears of Hitchcock-style bird terror, FM spoke with Alison G. Price, a Cambridge Animal Control Officer and 12-year-veteran of controlling the feral Cambridge streets...