Word: hitchcocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the importance of imminence in the dramatic experience. Who will come, or break, through the door next? What devastating words will unexpectedly be uttered? That is what has made Pinter an edge-of-the-seat dramatist. Even when he was, as English Critic Alan Brien once said, "a Hitchcock with the last reel missing," he still provided the electric Hitchcock tension. Beginning with the one-acters, Landscape and Silence, Pinter became enamored of static ruminative monologues that belong more properly to the novel than to drama...
...became World War I's foremost pinup girl by shamelessly exposing her ankles, Dame Gladys early turned to the legitimate stage. After achieving stardom in The Second Mrs. Tanqueray in 1922, she managed London's Playhouse Theater. Planning to spend three weeks in Hollywood making Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 melodrama Rebecca, she remained for nearly three decades, playing in such movie classics as Now, Voyager and Separate Tables. Then she became the matriarch of a mob of high-class swindlers on the NBC comedy series The Rogues, cultivating yet another generation of fans during...
...Although Hitchcock excludes some liberals from his invective, his critique is aimed broadly at most of the Church Left. This is, in fact, they key problem with the book. Hitchcock ends up using the words "liberal," "radical," "progressive" and "reformer" almost interchangeably. Despite this key weakness, many of Hitchcock's criticisms are very much to the point. Indeed, a truly "radical" critique of the Church reformist movement could be built quite easily upon Hitchcock's evidence...
...James Hitchcock's The Decline and Fall of Radical Catholicism, in attempting to answer the first questions, replies with a loud "Yes!" to the second and (even louder) "Liberals!" to the third. For Hitchcock, many of the Catholic liberals of the early sixties were not primarily concerned with Church renewal and reform. They only thought they were. Their real crisis, he says, was a spiritual one which they were unable to face. What liberals thought were dissatisfactions about Church structure and liturgy were, in fact, much deeper doubts about religion and God Himself. (And indeed, even the idea...
...more unusual Alfred Hitchcock double features. There on a park bench alongside the Thames sat the great director himself, holding a head that was a duplicate of his own. Actually the head will be used to carry on the Hitchcock tradition of including a shot of himself in each of his pictures; it belongs to a rotund dummy "victim" that will be found floating face up on the Thames in his 55th movie, Frenzy...