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Alfred Hitchcock, deeply brilliant, and a real creep, not just a pretend one, participated in a 1976 press conference, moderated by Richard Schickel of Time, for Family Plot. One unidentified reporter asked an interesting question, wondering if shocking actual events, like that era’s sensational Patty Hearst case, made it more difficult for a thriller writer to surprise audiences. The filmmaker ultimately acknowledged that he was “fighting headlines all the time.”
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"I don't believe I have the stomach for it." (Image by Ed Fitzgerald.)
From the Letters to the Editor section of the April 21, 1972 Life magazine:
“Sirs: Richard Schickel gives The Godfather a pretty darn good review (‘The Resurrection of Don Brando,’ March 31), one that would likely send me to see this movie. But then I read another opinion in the local paper (‘Somehow I don’t find rape entertaining, murder funny or violence acceptable’). I feel sure I would see The Godfather as this critic did and I don’t believe I have the stomach for it.–Claude Ash, Havertown, PA.“