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Tag Archives: Psycho
“Yeah, and I’m buddies with Alfred.” — Eminem on Alfred Hitchcock
For Alfred Hitchcock’s birthday. “It got silent, then all these voices said ‘Come follow me into the gates of Hell.’ I heard ’em yell ‘Welcome to the Norman Bates Motel!’ I ring the bell for service and I was greeted … Continue reading
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Hitchcock and Audience Expectations
Janet Leigh, on her role in Psycho: “I saw that she was really a shabby, mousy little woman. She wasn’t in any way glamorous or anything. So we chose clothes that she could have afforded. We didn’t have a dressmaker … Continue reading
R.I.P., Janet Leigh
Of course, Psycho was not all she did. Her career was long, and she appeared in some true classics. Touch of Evil, The Manchurian Candidate, etc. I came across the following quote this morning, in one of the obits I … Continue reading