Re: JCO: Hitchcock

Hi, I seem to be back in Tone Clusters after a long absence thanks to AOL.  What's the original reference to Hitchcock?  I know that humorously sinister fat men have been appearing in JCO's fiction since her first novel With Shuddering Fall back in the early 1960s. Hitchcock came to have a very unsavory attitude toward women -- particularly blondes -- as his career developed.  The admirable heroines of such early classics as The Lady Vanishes and The Man Who Knew Too Much (the first, British version) eventually gave way to such offensive 1970s works as Frenzy, whose previews were booed in theaters by women.  Frenzy's theatrical trailer  featured a "funny" scene where a murdered woman's body falls out of a potato truck onto a London Street, as I recall.  I don't imagine JCO liked that either.

Cyrano

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