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When Psycho first appeared, it was a shock. At first the picture seemed like a familiar Hitchcock melodrama of guilty escape: a woman, on the run with stolen money, stops for the night in a tatty motel, chats with the eccentric owner, takes a shower. And then, 44 minutes in, the movie goes a little mad. Exit leading lady, in a whirlpool of blood. New characters appear, are slaughtered or imperiled. What the hell is going on here? Audiences knew (it was one of Hitchcock's most profitable films), but the critics were annoyed, dismissive. It took a while...
...north, and Stratford, Texas, 40 miles to the south. As was the case in Albert Lea, the freshly arrived immigrants had no place to stay, and the town that had never had a homeless shelter was forced to open one. Volunteers cleaned, repaired and painted a vacant motel. Unemployed individuals and families could stay up to one week at a cost of $10 a day, which included two meals. If they found work--largely at Seaboard--they could stay up to 90 days while they saved money for a permanent home...
...Last fall, right after the summer, we went to Gloucester and stayed in a motel/bar with rooms above it. The motel was filled with old sailors drinking beer and playing pool at one in the afternoon. It was still a lot of fun and romantic though," Sandy jokes. "I guess we just don't do anything conventional!" The funny thing, Sandy says, is that all our friends now "equalate Gloucester and sex. Equalate...is that a word...
...group heads back to their motel for a drunken party and all seems good until Valeck (Thomas Ian Griffith), the oldest and most powerful vampire on Earth, bursts out of the ground looking like an undead Fabio. He has lightning-quick speed, superhuman strength and grins maliciously as bullets rip through his body. He promptly heads over to the motel and coldly and efficiently slaughters the entire team, the only survivors being Crow and his best buddy Montoya (Daniel Baldwin...
That figure was based partly on the market in the sort of "genuine, one-of-a-kind oil paintings" peddled on Sundays in art sales at suburban motels, a market that seems to have held steady at $39.95. The pictures in our room appeared to be reproductions of motel oils, which is why our $83 estimate was mostly for the frames...