People may think that in the director category, Ben Affleck got robbed by the Academy this year, but consider this: Alfred Hitchcock never won a competitive Oscar. Actor Peter O'Toole was nominated eight times but never took home the award. If that doesn't prove the Academy doesn't vote with posterity in mind, I don't know what could. ...
03:33 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Los Angeles: Scarlett Johansson, who stars in a biopic of Alfred Hitchcock, found recreating the shower scene from 'Psycho' the most difficult. The 27-year-old star plays Janet Leigh, the star of 'Psycho' in 'Hitchcock', being directed by Sacha Gervasi. "We only had the luxury to shoot the scene for a day, and everybody was feeling very nervous because it involved water and nobody wants the actor to get wet. They...
10:35 AM, Nov 08, 2012
New York: Alfred Hitchcock has finally usurped Orson Welles. Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' took the top spot in the 10 greatest-movies-ever list compiled by Sight and Sound, ending the 50-year-long run for Welles' 'Citizen Kane'. The magazine, published by the British Film Institute, surveys international film critics every decade. 'Citizen Kane' slid to second, making way for Hitchcock's 1958 psychological drama starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. The list also includes a...
11:34 AM, Aug 02, 2012
London: Giving people a tablet of the stress hormone cortisol can help reduce their fear of heights. The hormone, which is part of the body's "fight or flight" reaction to danger, appears to open the brain up to being reprogrammed and to permanently remove anxieties. Tests on 40 patients with acrophobia - a fear of high places and edges - found those given cortisol in combination with behavioural therapy dramatically...
11:32 AM, Mar 29, 2011
Karachi: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will seek all records of the spot-fixing case involving Essex player Mervyn Westfield as it wants to take a final decision on Test leg-spinner Danish Kaneria's future. Westfield is due to be sentenced on February 9 or 10 by a crown court in London and so far Kaneria's name has not cropped up in the trial although the leg-spinner was initially questioned by Essex ...
02:27 PM, Apr 14, 2008
