Fred Dean was dumbfounded when a voice on the other end of the telephone told him that the remains of his stillborn son buried in Libya 44 years ago had been returned to the U.S."I asked him if he was for real. I didn't believe...

Fred Dean was dumbfounded when a voice on the other end of the telephone told him that the remains of his stillborn son buried in Libya 44 years ago had been returned to the U.S."I asked him if he was for real. I didn't believe...

Lee Ielpi and his son Jonathan were both firefighters. When Sept. 11 took the life of one, it became the life of the other.Lee Ielpi's message begins with his son's mission: Jonathan Ielpi was 29, a member of Squad 288, a husband and father of...

Alfred Hitchcock knew fear. Once, when he was 5 and created some mischief, his father sent him to the local police station with a note. After reading the note, a sergeant put the boy in a cell for a few agonizing moments.The policeman returned and...

Ultimately, Family Plot may be more fun to think about than to see—or at least, to see for the fourth time. There are moments of quite stunning intensity…. But some of the principle action sequences seem relatively lax and unfocused, and I suspect that Family Plot figures only half-heartedly as an adventure film. Indeed, it mistrusts adventure, as the best Hitchcock movies often do. Its central position is that a healthy respect for love and money offers better guidance through this vale of te...

Though less pretentious and preposterous than Torn Curtain and Topaz, less ludicrous than Marnie, and less offensive than Frenzy, [Family Plot] is still late Hitchcock, and not very good. (p. 84) There are moments of inventiveness, here and there. When a woman tries to escape from a man in a cemetery whose paths are laid out like lines in a Mondrian painting (Hitchcock's own simile), there is something amusingly nutty about the pair's puny convergences and divergences, when mere cutting across...