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...members usually dismissed science fiction and horror as candidates for Best Picture--from the 1933 King Kong (just a trick movie) to Psycho (just an exercise in sadism from a director, Alfred Hitchcock, who should know better) to 2001 (what was that about?). Jaws and Star Wars did get Best Picture nominations but didn't take the top prize. See, these weren't people movies; they were simply the sum of their monster or sci-fi special effects...
...Boston a little bit, this might be just the ticket: a walking tour of Beacon Hill on Halloween night, highlighting the neighborhood’s mysterious history. Wednesday, Oct. 31, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Meet on the steps of the State House, Beacon Street, Boston. $15. 4) Hitchcock and Hymns? Cozy up inside magnificent Trinity Church and watch the Alfred Hitchcock classic “Rear Window,” starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly. Costumes optional. Free pizza will be served. Sunday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m. Trinity Church, 206 Clarendon St., Boston. Free admission. 5) Bloody...
...live TV drama in New York, and then in the filmed anthologies in Hollywood, he often played the nice-looking young man who was either hiding something from others or deluding himself. Watch him in reruns of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, as an escaped mental patient who charms lonely Phyllis Thaxter in Fog Closing In, or the struggling writer fleecing an established one in Act of Faith. He's terrific in two episodes of The Twilight Zone: one as a fellow seeking a love elixir, the other as a man returning to his home town to find that no one remembers...
...gave every evidence of enjoying his time on earth: spinning anecdotes about the actors and playwrights he knew, or devouring a Bay's English muffin, or working on his flower and vegetable garden in his New Preston, Conn., home. When Mary curated a Museum of Modern Art exhibition on Hitchcock, and the director's daughter Pat came to New York, George graciously and eagerly joined us at Orso to reminisce with her about their days in Golden...
...from genre to genre without a misstep. What other filmmaker has adapted both Jane Austen and a comic book, or followed a kung-fu film with a movie about gay cowboys? In Lust, Caution, Lee is trying out yet another, marrying an old-fashioned noir spy thriller à la Hitchcock's Notorious with a serious-minded inquiry into the nature of desire...