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...shorter than those who have never seen him in the flesh might expect; at 185 Ibs. he is carrying a bit more of that flesh than he would like. But his ample waist looks solid rather than soft; he is heavy in the manner of Hemingway, not Hitchcock. His bushy hair is white and cropped more conservatively than in the past, when he was the Medusa of late-night television talk shows. His eyes are clear and surprisingly blue. He moves with the grace of the boxer he has sometimes pretended...
Written by nine students, North by North Middle parodies Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest with Roger Thornbook (Jerry Lavin) as an innocent pre-law student and the outraged victim of a mistaken identity who is pursued by police and KGB agents. Lavin pulls off an excellent, recognizable impersonation of Cary Grant, complete with a little "ih" sound before every phrase...
...Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) has arranged for an airing of all three films on the congressional closed-circuit television network; the Biograph Theatre in Washington has been showing the films to sellout crowds, cancelling Hitchcock flicks to do it. And producer Joseph Papp plans to show the films at his public New York theatre...
...major concern of MacLeish's young life was the incompatibility of his longing to write poetry with the necessity of eventually supporting himself and his future wife, Ada Hitchcock. He agonized over whether business, journalism, teaching, or law would be the best compromise, finally deciding to go to Harvard Law School, from which he graduated first in his class. But three years of promising law practice and lecturing in constitutional law at Harvard College left him unsatisfied; in a letter to his family he calls the law "a mockery of human ambition for reality." And as he wrote Yale...
When John and Donna Pflueger moved from Flagstaff, Ariz., to a remote national forest homestead outside the city last fall, their rustic life amid the ponderosa pine soon took on shades of vintage Hitchcock. "I have lived in remote areas all my life," said John. "But I've never seen anything like this before...