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Appellate Judge Tom Becker is stuck with, fresh out of luck with, the blues. Gats. Gams.

From Ramblings: Wonder what happened to the telephone operator who was supposed to be on duty at 5 a.m. Thursday morning, July 10.

He starred in two spectactular swashbucklers, SCARAMOUCHE and THE PRISONER OF ZENDA , which continue to provide marvelous entertainment over half a century after they were first released.

The Fourth of July weekend has traditionally been a time when many TV programmers - presumably in cahoots with the manufacturers of DVRs - give over their schedules to 'marathons.' That's a nice word to ...

Scream queen: Marion Crane loses it in filmdom's most famous shower scene. Paramount Pictures Enlarge Norman's situation gets iffy when his victim's lover and sister come looking for her.

Record shops, map books and almanacs have one thing in common. They are all like the Bates Motel in Hitchcock's thriller "Psycho." Just as the interstate bypassed and then isolated cinema's creepiest motor ...

June 20th, 2008 -- by Augie De Blieck Jr. I remember seeing an interview with Janet Leigh where she said she never took a shower again after "Psycho." A shower is, indeed, a very isolating place.

Jamie Lee Curtis has admitted she was once so desperately addicted to drugs that she stole painkillers from her sister.

Appellate Judge James A. Stewart is planning a seance to ask Harry Houdini how accurate Houdini is.

Care of Female Veterans Lags at Some VA Hospitals: Report Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: For most of us, the only association we make between ...

One studio's trash appears to be another's treasure, based on a slew of new DVDs from Legend Films -- by way of Paramount Studios' vaults.

Misleading at least a generation of fans, the 1953 biographical film Houdini , about the life of the famous magician and escape artist, now comes closer to getting away with its habitual falsehoods due to the ...

This week's releases on DVD include Will Farrell's Semi-Pro . It's 1976, and Farrell plays Jackie Moon, owner-coach-player of the ABA's Flint Tropics, who tries to rally his players to play the best they can, ...

Here are the DVD releases for Tuesday June 3, 2008. Many of the titles being released this week are Paramount films that they are licensing to Legend Films.

Sinatra paints an attractively washed-out portrait of a U.S. intelligence officer .

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, the Rosetta Stone for understanding just about every horror film of the past 40 years, is this weekend's entry in the Charles Theatre's Hitchcock retrospective. Anthony Perkins plays Norman Bates, the reclusive mama's boy with a thing for knives, while Janet Leigh is Marion Crane, the larcenous bank employee who doubtless wishes she had stuck with baths. How influential was Psycho? John Carpenter patterned his 1978 Halloween, possibly the only horror film of the past few decades to rival Psycho's legacy, after Hitchcock's film. He even named his hero, Donald Pleasance's Dr. Sam Loomis, after Marion Crane's illicit boyfriend. Showtime is noon tomorrow at the Charles, 1711 N. Charles St., with encores set for 7 p.m. Monday and 9 p.m. Thursday. Tickets are $6 tomorrow, $8 other times. Information: 410-727-3456 or thecharles.com.

“Psycho is best remembered for this shocking scene. "The moment we see the shadowed figure of an old woman behind the shower curtain is the point we are biting our nails in anticipation of the next gruesome moment.”

Comments The terrifying shower scene in the original Psycho movie was today voted the most nail-biting moment ever seen in a film. via Daily Mail

Today is Wednesday, April 23, the 114th day of 2008. There are 252 days left in the year. via The Topeka Capital-Journal

Today is Wednesday, April 23, the 114th day of 2008. There are 252 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

April 23, 1564, is believed to be the birthdate of English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare; he died 52 years later, also on April 23.

On this date:

In 1789, President-elect George Washington moved into the first executive mansion, the Franklin House, in New York.

In 1791, James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, was born in Franklin County, Pa. Read more

“He wrote back and said he was too busy to come”

Potential buyers of Alfred Hitchcock's former home will struggle to find anything sinister, writes Ross Clark In pictures: Inside the master director's home Even though it was filmed with chocolate sauce, the ... via Telegraph.co.uk