Word: hitchcocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game, despite the high price of admission. The 77-year-old World-Herald is a prosperous if not an outstanding daily, and it is the only one in town. Self-styled as independent, it became Republican and conservative soon after its founder, Democratic Senator Gilbert Hitchcock, died in 1934. It is solidly established in a conservative Republican state. It gives Nebraskans what they want: a tidy-looking paper heavy on rural affairs and light on international affairs, concise and easily digested frontpage stories that almost never ask the reader to turn to an inside page. Its seven morning and five...
...Manchurian Candidate is so absurd that a synopsis of it reads like bad science fiction. Yet every detail of the film is so expertly done that one has doubts about it only after he leaves the theater. John Frankenheimer's direction (up to some of the best efforts of Hitchcock or Orson Welles) and uniformly excellent performances create an hypnotic suspense that allows no time to appraise the plausibility of what is going on. It is one simply of those rare movies that the viewer hopes will never...
...movie; that antique Greek tragedy can be done as modern cinema brilliantly and meaningfully; that Melina Mercouri is as achingly believable as a tragedienne as she was believably zany as a comedienne (in Never on Sunday); and that Tony Perkins had better go back to making thrillers for Hitchcock...
Dousing her star for any future comeback in films, Princess Grace, 32, told Jours de France and France-Soir, "I would like to act, but it is not possible." Her Serene Highness explained that she bowed out of her role in Alfred Hitchcock's projected Mamie because it all seemed too common to her 20,000 Monegasque subjects. "The return to acting did not set well with the public," said Grace. "They thought it was not in keeping with my place as a princess." Did the Vatican have any say? And did the souring relations between Paris...
...Birds make excellent heavies," Hitchcock says glowingly. "After all, they've been put in cages, shot at, and shoved into ovens for centuries. It's only natural they should fight back. Many people are terrified of them. Once the picture is released, it may do wonders for cat sales and the scarecrow market...