Word: hitchcocked
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...irrepressible actor QUENTIN TARANTINO, after casting himself in all his directorial outings, not put himself in Jackie Brown? A careful listening will discover him giving a shrill, stilted delivery of lines like "end of messages" as the voice of PAM GRIER'S answering machine. Not quite as sly as Hitchcock, but a lot more pleasant than watching him play a real character...
...takes down the instructions for his persona of the evening. Unbeknownst to him, though, he has received the call intended for a government hit man, expected to help with a plan to destabilize the Anglo-Russian detente whose peace treaty is to be signed that evening. What ensues is Hitchcock's "wrong man" scenario, but with humor instead of horror, and Bill Murray instead of Cary Grant...
There are some examples of successful near-absolute monarchies. For instance, in Monaco, Prince Rainier reigns supreme and uncontested, his principality in the spotlight since he married the late Hollywood actress and Hitchcock muse, Grace Kelly. In this tiny Mediterranean country the size of New York City's Central Park, to be Monegasque is to lead a tax-and-crime-free life. Monegasques appreciate the fact that it is only the Monegasque princely family that keeps Monaco intact since once the family dies out, Monaco reverts to France...
...popular films of Alfred Hitchcock show that the American people love terror, horror and pain. The Andrew Cunanan-Gianni Versace murder case seems to have that ring to it [NATION, Aug. 4]. No one would have thought that this murderer would put the nation in such a frantic state. With Cunanan's desperate suicide, the worst of this nightmare is over, but we will probably never know what caused him to commit five murders across the country. MARGARET JONES Prescott...
...there were other sides to the Stewart performances. He is most often thought of as the sentimental avatar of "Capracorn," though he made only three pictures with Frank Capra. He made only four films with Hitchcock. But he made eight with Anthony Mann, more than with any other director, and five of those were westerns with a cynical edge that anticipated the "dark" westerns of Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah. These appeared in the 1950s, when American innocence was challenged and betrayed by a worldwide conspiracy, by a treason of the knowing and elite, when even Stewart had to show...