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Martin Landau: The CFQ Interview

Dan Persons | Posted 04.26.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Landau, Mission Impossible, North by Northwest, Frankenweenie, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, Ed Wood, Leonard Nimoy, Space: 1999, Star Trek, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Every now and then, we pause in awe of the people we've had the opportunity to spend time with. Doug Trumbull, John Kricfalusi, and Paul Verhoeven in ...

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Skip SXSW and Rent North By Northwest: What Classic Film Teaches Us About Social Media

April Rudin | Posted 05.11.2013 | Technology
Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, Social Media, Social Network, North by Northwest, Sxsw 2013, Marketing, Branding, Personal Branding, Messaging, Classic Movies, SXSW Interactive, Cary Grant, Sxsw, Social Media Marketing, Technology News
April Rudin

SXSW has become little more than a cultish gathering of the masses with few true influencers in the marketing arena.

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Grand Central Terminal: The Book

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 03.26.2013 | New York
Read More: Mad Men, Sam Roberts, Alfred Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Brooklyn Bridge, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Empire State Building, Grand Central Terminal, North by Northwest, New York News
Thane Rosenbaum

For most people around the world, Grand Central Terminal is not so much a train station as a metaphor for directionless mayhem, traffic run amuck, bodies barely dodging one another -- only a miracle can divert a head-on collision of either man or machine.

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The Most Inspiring Movie Sets Of All Time

The Huffington Post | Michelle Manetti | Posted 01.01.2013 | HuffPost Home
Read More: House Beautiful, Marie Antoinette, Miles Redd, Decor, North by Northwest, Design, Movie Sets, Jonathan Adler, Movie Interiors, House Beautiful February 2013, Interior Design, HuffPost Home News

Which is your favorite?

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WATCH: Mitt Romney Straight Up Murders Big Bird

Posted 10.05.2012 | Comedy
Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, Big Bird, Video, Conan, Conan Big Bird, North by Northwest, Mitt Romney, Conan Romney, Big Bird Romney, Romney 2012, Comedy News

By now, we all know that Mitt Romney wants to foreclose Sesame Street and tell Big Bird to go the way of Oscar the Grouch. "Sorry, Big, but your stree...

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For His Birthday, Let's Settle This: What Was Alfred Hitchcock's Greatest Film?

John Farr | Posted 04.04.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, North by Northwest, The Birds, Suspicion, Alfred Hitchcock Birthday, Alfred Hitchcock Movies, Entertainment News
John Farr

Vertigo is unmissable. It is certainly Hitchcock's most ambitious movie. If not a masterpiece, it's most certainly a near-masterpiece. But is it indeed the Master's very best film?

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Mini Golf At National Building Museum: HuffPost DC Top 5 For July 5

The Huffington Post | Brandon Wetherbee | Posted 07.05.2012 | DC
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TOP 5 FOR THURSDAY, JULY 5 1. Mini Golf At National Building Museum Beginning today the National Building Museum opens its architect-designed indo...

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A Better Idea for Branding Public Transit

Carol Pierson Holding | Posted 07.08.2012 | Business
Read More: North by Northwest, Bus, Environmentalists, Angelina Joli, The Tourist, Subway, Brief Encounter, Stampede, Bound, Cars, Broadway Subway, New York, Dash, Hop, Bolt, Sex, Trains, San Francisco, Grand Central, Making Transit Fun, Boulder, Johnny Depp, Atlantic Cities, Jump, Zipcar, Skip, Business News
Carol Pierson Holding

So if a car's experience is so fundamentally different than riding transit, what parallel experience can we plumb for joyous attributes? I would propose we look for a model to long-distance trains and their sense of possibility and romance, not the raw sex of cars.

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WATCH: Happy Birthday, Alfred Hitchcock!

Posted 10.12.2011 | Arts
Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock Birthday, Goodfellas, Rear Window, Hitchcock Birthday, Grace Kelly, Vertigo, Psycho, Salvador Dali, North by Northwest, The Lady Vanishes, Film, Suspicion, UK Arts, Movies, Arts News

On August 13, we celebrate the memory of Alfred Hitchcock, who was born on this day in 1899. If he were as immortal as his films, this would make him ...

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Survivor 22: Rerun Island: Russell Blows It, Mansweater Sucks It, and Big Mouth Stamps It.

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: North by Northwest, Survivor Episode Recap, Reality TV, Vertigo, Survivor, Survivor-Recap, Jerry Herman, Cbs, Alfred Hitchcock, Russell Hantz, Survivor 22 Recap, Mission: Impossible, Tarzan, Comedy and Humor, Survivor 22, Survivor 22 Episode 4, Hello Dolly, Lost, Jeff Probst, Polymorphus Perversity, Comedy, The Mentalist, Television, This Week in Terrible Television, Strangers on a Train, Entertainment News
Tallulah Morehead

We opened this week with a terrifying nightmare vision: Russell had cloned thousands of exact replicas of himself, and they were waking up, and flying off to attack!

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Burn Notice: The Great Man Purge of 2010

The DC Damsel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
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The DC Damsel

Remember the Friends episode when Monica and Rachel and Phoebe decided to cleanse themselves of all the asshole men they'd dated by burning mementos f...

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Words From the Saint, Eva Marie

Kim Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, Otto-Preminger, Eva-Marie-Saint, North by Northwest, Marlon Brando, Cary Grant, John Frankenheimer, Montgomery Clift, Entertainment News
Kim Morgan

In her first movie, she kissed Marlon Brando. And then she won an Oscar. How many actresses get that kind of a debut? But then, how many actresses are as wonderful as Eva Marie Saint?

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Harry Markopolos, Madoff Whistleblower, Now Faces Limelight

The Boston Globe | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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A month ago, Harry Markopolos was an accountant unknown outside Boston's financial community. Now the slight, bookish 52-year-old from Whitman is u...

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Stranger On A Snowy Train

Kim Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Charles McGraw, The Narrow Margin, O. Winston Link, The Major and the Minor, Strangers on a Train, Amtrak, North by Northwest, Some Like It Hot, Robert Walker, Ray Milland, Holiday Season Commentary, Oregon, Entertainment News
Kim Morgan

I'm heading north for the holidays, and I loathe flying, so I'm on the train. Traveling by train got me thinking (again) of some of my favorite train movies.

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Seven Pounds Is a Damned Good Film: The Critics Are Wrong, So What Else Is New?

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Gabriele Muccino, Seven Pounds, Bill Smitrovich, Rosario Dawson, Russnow, Grant Nieporte, North by Northwest, Michael Russnow, Mount Rushmore, Will Smith, Woody Harrelson, Movies, Barry Pepper, Elpidia Carrillo, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

Seven Pounds has gotten an unfair and raw deal from a lot of critics, with some exceptions. However, this writer advises that you may very well be more than satisfied.

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