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...Certainly architects like Peter Barber, David Chipperfield and Sergison Bates have attempted credible revivals in various forms. But are these really mansion blocks?...
...“The politics is in the social value,” said Mark Bate, head of business development at AceHawk....
...Tammy Faye is the one with the unpleasable mother but, like Norman Bates, Jim’s urges shape the story....
...Norman Bates made a hole in the motel bathroom wall, hidden behind a cheap picture. Now he’d be online. The architectural aesthetics of horror shifts with desire....
...Hitchcock’s Psycho used the unsettling space of the house on the hill that looms over the Bates Motel as a map of the deranged mind of Norman Bates. This time, best avoid the basement....
...“We had a huge amount of restrictions put on us,” said Norman, nicknamed “The Shark”....
...He founded the organisation in 1987, aged just 22, with his father, Norman. The first festival was in 1988, and for years it ran like a family project: his parents initially sat on the board....
...And I remember walking up the hill from the spring-fed stone drinking fountain in early autumn as Emma shamefully humiliated Miss Bates with a low jibe....
...“That early agreement made a real difference,” said Steve Bates, chief executive of the UK BioIndustry Association....
...Surrounded by woods and fields, her post office and shop, which stand opposite a 12th-century Norman church, are an archetypal English country idyll....
...Sixty years ago next summer, Alfred Hitchcock unveiled the flawless bait-and-switch of Psycho, the story of troubled secretary Marion Crane transformed into the tale of Norman Bates....
...I had one called Bates — not after Norman, but after a butler. He was magnificent and gentle and loving. Even though I have a dog now — a cockapoo — it is not the same....
...Out of the murk appears, incongruously, a Gothic mansion with blood tricking down the windows straight out of Psycho, and it houses a witch who is not Norman Bates, but a roly-poly Mrs Doubtfire, sung by...
...We’re not quite in Norman Bates territory, but the thought did occur to me. Dylan Jones extols the Cadogan as somewhere you can behave badly. I can’t say I got that vibe....
...He loves his mum, but so did Norman Bates. The film is a bad trip so trippy you could start to enjoy its fortissimo miserabilism....
...These days cinephiles sometimes see Hitchcock’s spry comic-thriller as half a rung down from Vertigo or the trials of Norman Bates, but more fool us....
...Asked to ponder big-screen mothers, your mind may turn to Psycho and the sorry sight of Norman Bates, tugging back the motel shower curtain to reveal the horror beyond. “Mother!” he wailed....
...Meanwhile, the Norman Bates-style motels become massive open-houses....
...The bloodthirsty hotelier Norman Bates feels so close to his mother that he merges his personality with hers and cohabits with her corpse....
...One detects a whiff of Norman Bates about it and this distasteful thought rather discourages further delving....
...With his shifty tics and evil-boy slyness, Franco is doing Norman Bates lite. He’s cuddly-charismatic....
...Salman Rahman Chief Executive, Vasgen Dr Stephen Bloor Chief Executive, Videregen Guy Topping Managing Director, Europe, Wheaton UK Chris Bishop Technical Director, Wickham Laboratories Limited Norman...
...This macabre do-gooder takes charge of his wrestling stars, led by Schultz brothers Mark (Channing Tatum) and Dave (Mark Ruffalo), in a manner sometimes reminding us of the way Norman Bates took charge of...
...Bates), living with his alcoholic mother in a house filled with secrets....
...He would have made a heart-rending Norman Bates in Psycho (Norman with his picnic basket?). But come 1960, Dean probably wouldn’t have been acting anyway....
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