Alfred Hitchcock Day - a new tradition

A friend writes that March 12 is Alfred Hitchcock day.

Why not? I'm a day late for everything.

Every dog -- and slightly demented director -- must have its day.

I admit to adoring Hitchcock, but not for his movies, for the most part.

I love Hitch for his Presents series, which have lovely twisty endings. GOTCHA!

We all know Hitch had a few bugaboos. Blondes -- well, females in general -- were one of them.

He loved and hated his blonde female stars. Watch his movies and you will see.

(Naturally, I have no info to back this up -- just 47 years worth of hearsay, which I'm betting is of some value.)

Because I said so.

But he also said so: "Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them."

As I told SIL, too, AH was famous for including himself in his own show. It has become a sport for me, AH spotting! You have to PVR each show to watch it twice -- once for the story, and once to spot Hitch - in a background crowd scene, in a portrait on a wall somewhere on the set.

He also had an interesting relationship with the evil advertiser:

"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."

Also: he was a famously witty man.

"I didn't say actors are cattle. What I said was, actors should be treated like cattle."

"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary."

To a woman who complained that the shower scene so frightened her daughter that the girl would no longer shower:"Then Madam I suggest you have her dry cleaned."