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Tippi Hedren: ‘Hitchcock Was a Dangerous Deviant’
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Posted on 08/16/2012 10:41:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: Emperor Palpatine
At least Hitchcock didn’t go after little girls like Roman Polanski.

Remember Jack Woltz, the fictional Movie Producer in The Godfather who found the horses head? In the original novel, he was portrayed as bedding child actresses, they cleaned it up a bit in the movie to imply he went after adult starlets.

41 posted on 08/16/2012 12:16:01 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: AU72
Ads well as a bit role or two over-acting on the TV show "Twelve O'CFlock High"


42 posted on 08/16/2012 12:17:14 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimenticare Iddio!!!!!)
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To: Calvin Locke

The story I heard about Travolta is that he wasn’t born gay, but had to submit to the casting couch, and out of that guilt, became gay to rationalize what he was forced to do....I wouldn’t be surprised at all if that was the case.


43 posted on 08/16/2012 12:18:26 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: AU72
Shatner also did the famous Twilight Zone airplane gremlin story before it was in the movie.

That one's famous, but I think his better perfoance was playing a newlywed who couldn't stop feeding coins into a fortune telling machine in a diner.
44 posted on 08/16/2012 12:24:18 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I love to hear you talk talk talk, but I hate what I hear you say."-Del Shannon)
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To: AU72

Remember when George Takei “married” his gay partner?

Someone photo shopped him wearing a wedding veil and taking the place of the gremlin when Shatner pulled back the curtain. Hilarious.

I was looking for that pic the other day, can’t find it. Maybe it was deemed “too insensitive” and scrubbed from the ‘net.


45 posted on 08/16/2012 12:28:15 PM PDT by JohnnyP
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To: AU72
Any movie in Esperanto would be a horror flick, by definition.
46 posted on 08/16/2012 12:32:18 PM PDT by Erasmus (Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen Meers)
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To: Snickering Hound

Isn’t her 50 years of Not Guilty about to expire???


47 posted on 08/16/2012 12:34:20 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: greene66
Shatner also appeared in at least 2 Twilight Zone episodes.

It's interesting to see how many ex-TZ actors appeared in Star Trek episodes.

48 posted on 08/16/2012 12:39:27 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ('Nancy Pelosi is a DINGBAT.' - Gov. Sarah Palin)
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To: Yaelle
"I’ve heard stories about Hitchcock. Come on, we all know women were forced to submit to casting couch stuff to get roles back then."

Forced? or Willing to? There is a big difference, and I have a tiny suspicion it still happens today.

Even for intern roles in Washington

49 posted on 08/16/2012 12:45:23 PM PDT by Mr. K ("The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum [of good]")
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To: Dr. Sivana

Hmmm. George Soros was raised as an Esperanto speaker...


50 posted on 08/16/2012 12:49:35 PM PDT by livius
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To: AU72

Shatner had a number of good roles in films. He played Alexei in “The Brothers Karamazov” opposite Yul Brynner; also, he played Spencer Tracy’s aide in “Judgment at Nuremberg; and he was the priest in “Seven Samurai”. I may be one of the few people who liked “Incubus”, curse or no.


51 posted on 08/16/2012 12:52:32 PM PDT by Havisham
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To: AU72; All

Shatner had a number of good roles in films. He played Alexei in “The Brothers Karamazov” opposite Yul Brynner; also, he played Spencer Tracy’s aide in “Judgment at Nuremberg; and he was the priest in “Seven Samurai”. I may be one of the few people who liked “Incubus”, curse or no.


52 posted on 08/16/2012 12:52:55 PM PDT by Havisham
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To: CaribCarter

He threw live birds at her for 3 days to film the attic scene. She had a nervous breakdown. He made her film anyway. That completely zoned out thing she did at the end of the movie, that wasn’t acting, that’s what was left of her sanity.

He was a brilliant director, but she’s by no means the first person to point out that he was willing to be extremely abusive to get what he wanted, both on and off camera.


53 posted on 08/16/2012 1:03:05 PM PDT by discostu (Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.)
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To: Snickering Hound

Not guilty Ack! Ack ack!


54 posted on 08/16/2012 1:07:38 PM PDT by frithguild (You can call me Snippy the Anti-Freeper)
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To: discostu

I don’t have any details, but I remember that Vera Miles was supposedly close to a breakdown while filming The Wrong Man. Kim Novak said she was put through the wringer filming Vertigo. I think. It’s been a while since I was reading about that era of film.


55 posted on 08/16/2012 1:08:17 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Ohioan

Actually her case would be helped a lot by the fact that he used live birds, live birds scratch people, poop, and get injured or killed. The danger to both her and the birds would get him crushed in today’s Hollywood.


56 posted on 08/16/2012 1:23:03 PM PDT by discostu (Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.)
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To: Rastus

For a guy who reportedly had little patience for method actors he was also very fond of making his actors suffer when the character was supposed to suffer. Kind of a weird guy.


57 posted on 08/16/2012 1:30:19 PM PDT by discostu (Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.)
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To: CaribCarter

Careful. I live in Phoenix, a city with a so-called colony of people who are retired or who commute to work in the business in Los Angeles. Over the years, I’ve come to understand what a horrible, vile man he was. From people who knew him. I think you owe Ms. Hedren a huge apology.


58 posted on 08/16/2012 1:33:26 PM PDT by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Alot of people would argue that Hitchcock absolutely was not the best director ever, and I would be one of them.

Start your list with Sidney Lumet and keep going... Hitchcock is no doubt in the top ten, but he ain’t at the top. Probably fifth or sixth, IMHO.


59 posted on 08/16/2012 1:43:20 PM PDT by djf (The barbarian hordes will ALWAYS outnumber the clean-shaven. And they vote.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

The Sight & Sound magazine poll takes place once every ten years. The most recent poll placed Vertigo at the top, followed by Citizen Kane.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time

They poll 846 film critics, programers, academics and distributors.


60 posted on 08/16/2012 1:46:10 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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