Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Fango learned this afternoon that two more great actors have left us.
Patrick McGoohan is best known to horror fans as Dr. Paul Ruth in David Cronenberg's 1981 classic, Scanners, while general audiences will remember his performance as The Prisoner.
Ricardo Montalban struck a chord with readers of our sister mag, Starlog for his portrayal of Star Trek's villainous Khan, while his early work included appearances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Both men died of natural causes. McGoohan was 80, Montalban, 88.
Source: Los Angeles Times

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One of America's best directors was also a British citizen. Sir Alfred Hitchcock defined suspense and psychological terror with his legacy of film. His signature smallscreen series, "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" was a huge ratings hit, featuring the portly filmmaker in profile before he opened the show with his clever teases of the episode. Now, a new wax figure of Alfred Hitchcock, .Hollywood.s Master of Suspense,.will be unveiled by Hitchcock star Tippi Hedren (.The Birds.) as part ofMadame Tussauds Hollywood.s pre-opening. Classic Hollywood .Scream.Test. will follow for L.A..s Best Scream, which will be .Immortalized. in The Hitchcock Vignette at Madame Tussauds Hollywood, next to Grauman.s Chinese Theatre The life-like Madame Tussauds Hollywood wax figure of Alfred Hitchcock is newly arrived
April MacIntyre

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Wall Street, they tell me, is on an upturn, and the economy is well on its way to recovery. Hooray and Huzzah! But, even if all this optimism is justified (which I doubt), the rough times aren't entirely behind us and, however long they linger, certain businesses are going to suffer -- especially certain businesses that may not be fit for survival in the digital world, like publishing for the niche markets of Sf and horror.
And, even if happy days are here again, some 20th Century businesses won't be coming back, ever.
Every year, March is National Reading Month, and every year it passes by with no one noticing, except for a few librarians who have to get up on ladders to post the banners (of course, this year, no budget for banners, so there wasn't even that).
Well, this blog is going to change everything; we're going to
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