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QUESTION: Saul Bass, the title designer, has said that he is responsible for designing the shower killing in Psycho...
HITCHCOCK: It isn't true. I'll tell you, Saul Bass asked me if he could design a sequence, so I said, "Yes, you can design the sequence of the detective going into the house." So he made up a series of sketches: feet on the stairs, hands on the rail, moving through the bannister with his legs going up, close...
Well, I went sick one day -- it was the only day I went sick on a picture -- so I told the assistant and Burks, the cameraman, "There's something you can do to fill in time. Take these drawings of Saul Bass and photograph them." I saw them on the screen exactly as he laid them out, and I said, "We can't use them. None of this can be used. All these things are sinister stealth. He's not a sinister man; this is an innocent man." So we threw the whole lot out, and I took a simple...
...case-history plot has been dead for some time, but it was not formally buried until Murray Schisgal's Broadway comedy Luv kidded it into oblivion. And the protagonist of Saul Bellow's play, The Last Analysis, complains bitterly: "Doctor, I'm fed up with these boring figures in my unconscious. It's always Father, Mother. Or again, breast, castration, anxiety, fixation to the past. I am desperately bored with these things...
Marriage represents Director George Abbott's 107th show on Broadway, and before the season is out, Abbott, 79, will bring in No. 108, a bedroom comedy called Agatha Sue, I Love You. Shelley Winters will play in Under the Weather, a trilogy by Novelist Saul Bellow; Shelley will be disturbed in all three. Neil Simon (Odd Couple) will be on deck for the third straight season with The Star Spangled Girl, who is an ex-Olympic swimmer, while Comic Woody Allen has turned playwright with Don't Drink the Water, a comedy that laughs at the cold...