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...very strange books about places that don’t exist, fights that never happened, all set against the sort of medieval background that Mark Twain thought he had discredited with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur...
...Arthur Conan Doyle tried to kill off Sherlock Holmes but gave in to public clamour and resurrected him....
...The outfits sported by Cary Grant in To Catch A Thief, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 crime thriller, are more often than not held up as the epitome of men’s summer style....
...It seems almost incidental when Jones’s first husband, Robert Walker, dumped for the mogul David O Selznick, then claims a plum role in Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (co-written, naturally, by...
...Arthur Conan Doyle thought his Sherlock Holmes stories were dreadful hackery. Yearning to devote himself to “better things”, he even killed Holmes off at the Reichenbach Falls....
...The songs were the evening’s highpoint, but they shouldn’t have been: one missed a crescendo of Hitchcock-like suspense spanning the opera....
...There are enough moments when music and drama come into Hitchcock-like sharpness to make one wish it were all like that....
...Robert Bloch wrote a slash-and-shock potboiler that became Psycho, a Hitchcock masterpiece....
...Rudy Giuliani is the scary candidate, which opens a wide field – Freddy Krueger of Halloween, Anthony Perkins in Psycho, and, sticking with Hitchcock, one of the crows in The Birds....
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