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More Hitchcock, legal and free on YouTube… for now.

Update: They’re expiring. I’ll find substitutes where I can.

Hitchcock’s youngest leading lady was Nova Pilbeam, who was only 17 years old when she starred in Young and Innocent.

Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood, with on-screen chemistry that has never been surpassed.

Grace Kelly could wrap any man, including Hitch, around her pinky finger.
https://youtu.be/AbcIGBhOrog

Tippi Hendron couldn’t handle Hitch the way Grace did, and he crossed the line with her.
https://youtu.be/UfS5F5IQNtg

Vertigo, official and free to watch… with some commercials. Hitch wanted Grace to play Madeline, but by then she was Her Serene Highness, Princess of Monaco. I don’t see Grace as buxom working girl Judy, so Kim Novak was the better choice.

https://youtu.be/VpddkFjb0ow

I’ve been working on several projects, mostly the techie type. Have a couple of posts in the works that require some extra thought in expressing the points I want to make. I’ll be back when the first one is done, or if I happen to have something quick and easy to put here.

Oh! Here’s something. It’s been missing in the notices about Henry Kissinger’s death.

This is very strange. You have been warned.

That was a bummer trip. This one is groovy.

Then, at two o’clock P.M., another bulletin, this one official: The President was dead… My head was flooded with images of the President the last time I saw him, just seven days earlier, in the Carlyle. He had hugged me and said he’d call me when he got back from Texas… What sent me over the edge was the image of Dave Powers with his hand on the casket, standing in front of it as if he were guarding the President, then lifting it with other aides into the waiting Navy ambulance… My tears turned into violent, racking sobs…

– Intimate JFK friend Mimi Beardsley

I’ll get a jump on next year’s 40th(!) anniversary of one of my two favorite comedy movies, This is Spinal Tap.

My other favorite laugh-filled movie is Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which is scheduled for limited release in theaters only on December 3. Wait, no. It will be shown again on December 6. But that will be the absolute last time. Never again to be repeated, not ever!