Production got positively dull after my last video game with Lucas, Force Commander in 1997. The company pulled it just after casting. To...

In 1996, LucasArts and Steve Dauterman called again. Did I have any interest in producing Jedi Knight? A more complex videogame requiring...

In between visits by perennially disgruntled The Nightmare Before Christmas employees, a few other adventures awaited me on the productio...

KQED, the local PBS affiliate in San Francisco, hired me on three separate occasions. Perhaps my first four month stint of lambasting ple...

24 hours after starting the practical EFX part of the Frito-Lay job, found Mark Krumper, my fellow P.A. and me back at my apartment. Lee,...

The white-hot arc of my production career started during the Fall of 1984 with Suzy Miller at the NBC affiliate in Philadelphia. In Decem...

PROLOGUE Assume that working in the film production industry can be considered a real career. Upon reflection, some of the past 34 years ...

Tippi Hedren, Hitchcock’s last ice-cool blonde, was just that. Physically she embodied everything that Hitch had put forth with the likes...

For those of you who have NEVER seen Psycho, please get the Hell off my blog, my website and my Facebook page because I don’t know you. A...

For the most part I will attempt to contain my absolute lust for Kim Novak during this Homage to Hitchcock. Sir Alfred only has three ins...

As promised, a return to chronological order for my Homage to Hitchcock’s Top Twenty Films. The Man Who Knew Too Much is a true rarity in...

For those of you tired of seeing me write “Grace Kelly,” you’ll be happy to know she is NOT the leading lady in North By Northwest. Which...

I won’t belabor why TCAT is on this list, and again, Academy Award Nominee, Foreign Correspondent is not. Two words. Grace Kelly. That is...

This movie would be worth the ticket if all it showed was Grace Kelly’s entrance where she leans over to kiss a slumbering (and might I a...

Sir Alfred entered a particularly fertile period in his professional career from 1954 through 1960. He directed nine movies, seven of whi...

Sir Alfred took a creative break for a few years. That doesn't mean that Hitch stopped directing. He just seemed to stop directing anythi...

Let the Foreign Correspondent pig pile continue. Rope, a commercial failure by any measure, is also not a well-known a film in the Hitchc...

Besides Ingrid Bergman in a nightgown, there is one other Hictchcockian gem in this film. The MacGuffin. As mentioned previously, a handf...

Here’s where the Hitchcock ‘purists’ might start a pig pile with me on the bottom of it. Spellbound is considered an inferior movie to Fo...

The closest thing to an adult version of Lord of the Flies, with the caveat that the dead body belongs to one of the more despicable Nazi...