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Williams said he became interested in film after taking a class on Alfred Hitchcock during his first year at Harvard...
...study at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, New Hampshire, five years ago proved the point. Dr. Mark P. Yeager randomly divided 53 intensive-care patients into two groups. One received morphine by ordinary intravenous catheters, while the other had morphine delivered epidurally, through a catheter placed near the spinal cord. The epidural patients, who were virtually pain-free, spent an average of just 2.5 days in the intensive- care unit and a total of 11.4 days in the hospital, while the other group required 5.7 days in the ICU and 15.8 days of hospitalization. In dollars, the difference...
Viewers' familiarity with the gore genre has never bothered Brian De Palma. He has been considered a Hitchcock groupie for so long that, by now, the slur seems like a badge. The plot of Raising Cain -- about a child psychologist (John Lithgow) still under the spell of his mad-scientist father and an evil twin named Cain -- swipes from Psycho and Michael Powell's sicko classic Peeping Tom. What's fun here is that De Palma has rung cunning changes on Hitchcockian twists. What if the car that Norman Bates watched sink into the swamp had a woman inside, clawing...
Movies can convince us of the impossible; they have trouble with what Hitchcock called "the implausibles." Both Single White Female and Raising Cain too often beg the question "Why would such a smart person do such a stupid thing?" Single White Female gets its best thrills early on, when Hedy is falling in love with Allie -- and filling the void inside both of them. Sisterhood never looked so vulnerable. "You haven't been yourself," Allie says to Hedy. "I know," her would-be twin replies. "I've been...
...same time, the demand for women's rights and the bishops' halfway efforts to accommodate it have goaded female traditionalists into action. In 1984, Helen Hull Hitchcock of St. Louis met a few friends to write up a complaint about feminist inroads in the church. Today 50,000 people have endorsed their manifesto, and Hitchcock is the full-time director of Women for Faith & Family. If the left sees the church dominated by oppressive males, Hitchcock contends that "the power structure in the church has been largely subverted by people who no longer accept the very basic dogmas...