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...Twenty years later, just before his death in 1968, Woolrich remembered one thing about ?Rear Window,? the most famous movie made from his fiction (which his agent had sold to Hollywood, along with five other stories, for a measly $5,000). ?Hitchcock wouldn?t even send me a ticket to the premiere in New York,? the writer told his young agent, Barry Malzberg. ?He knew where I lived. He wouldn?t even send me a ticket...
...director, best known for ?The Four Hundred Blows? and ?Jules and Jim? (warm Truffaut), also loved psychological thrillers (cool Truffaut). This one is cool - freon cold. Truffaut did a book-length interview with Hitchcock, and ?Bride? is supposed to be his homage to the Master of Suspense. But Julie, in her uninflected implacability, belongs less to Hitchcock than to Robert Bresson, the great French minimalist. His heroines - Joan of Arc, Mouchette, the suicidal young wife in ?Une femme douce? - all bear the cross of living. All seek the transcendence of death...
Surgeons who have performed a high number of certain difficult procedures have significantly better success rates than those who haven't, according to an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. John Birkmeyer, general-surgery chief at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., reviewed the charts of nearly 475,000 Medicare patients, all of whom had undergone one of eight high-risk operations, such as heart procedures or surgery for lung or pancreatic cancer...
...Cameos by characters from previous works, nonsense doodles, and even Hitchcock-like appearances by the artist himself, are de rigueur to Tezuka. He has an almost Shakespearian desire to mix high drama with low comedy, though Shakespeare rarely had characters doing both. At one point during volume one a powerful general sends away his escorts when he wishes to bathe in a pond. Adopting a silly, girlish pose and sprouting long eyelashes he says, "I don't want you to see me naked. Pray, won't you go?" Some of the oddity may be attributable to the translation, which puts...
...noir accessories. Open your bedroom door and five tough Thais stand outside, ready to make your face a map of welts. Pang never gets much momentum going here; he's happy to synopsize the genre conventions. And thriller directors never tire of "referencing" the shower scene from Hitchcock's Psycho. In Takashi Shimizu's The Grudge, a girl steps into the shower and starts washing her hair. As she rubs in the shampoo, she reaches to the back of her head and feels ... a third hand! It's clammy, it's dead and, when she whirls around in fright...