Question: I'd like some scoop on The 4400.
Answer: Wouldn't we all? We're going to meet a woman named Sara who claims to be Maia's sister. But she may have a secret agenda. (And no, this is not the top-secret role that Tippi Hedren will be playing.)
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Question: I was just wondering if you knew why the birds attacked Bodega Bay in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. And also, were those real birds, or what?
Answer: The Daphne du Maurier story on which The Birds (1963) is very loosely based is a Cold War allegory in which the attacking birds are a metaphor for life out of balance, knocked off kilter by human hubris, self-centeredness and belligerence. Alfred Hitchcock's screenwriter Evan Hunter, who relocated the story from England to California and made the protagonist a shallow socialite (Tippi Hedren) rathe
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