by Steven DeRosa | Jun 22, 2011 | Blog Post
To mark the 58th anniversary of John Michael Hayes beginning work on Rear Window I decided to visit the actual Greenwich Village courtyard that was used as the model for the spectacular set of that was built on Paramount’s Stage 18. Here you will see how the...
by Steven DeRosa | May 27, 2011 | Blog Post
Early in his career Hitchcock said that his method of preparing a screenplay with his writers generally stripping the story down to the bare essentials which he would outline on a single page. The next step involved fleshing out that outline into a prose treatment of...
by Steven DeRosa | May 6, 2011 | Blog Post
Before deciding to make this a two-part entry and include a few words about screenwriter Joseph Stefano, I had intended this piece to be strictly about Hitchcock’s assistant director and associate producer Herbert Coleman and was going to title it something...
by Steven DeRosa | Apr 30, 2011 | Blog Post
Recently on our Facebook page we discussed our favorite kisses in Hitchcock’s films, and so here we have the Hitchcock Kiss, with a nod to Joel Gunz whose recent posts on hit Alfred Hitchcock Geek blog have pointed to the influence of sculptor Augusts Rodin on...
by Steven DeRosa | Apr 30, 2011 | Blog Post
Thirty-one years ago yesterday, Alfred Hitchcock passed away. I do not think he would be at all surprised to know that the mark he left on cinema and on pop culture continues and shows no signs of waning. Earlier this week I made a return appearance on The Radio Dan...
by Steven DeRosa | Feb 10, 2011 | Blog Post
I can hear the pitch now … why remake when we can make it a sequel? It’s 2012…and Hank Conway…um, I mean McKenna, now in his mid-60s has arrived in Washington DC to attend the Kennedy Center Honors which is being awarded posthumously to his mother Jo the following...
