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Hitchcock used food
a great deal in this movie.
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Like the hamburger scene
and the wig in the refrigerator.
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I think part of that, again,
was because he
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considered himself
a great gourmet.
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I do know that he was
very punctual about eating.
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If his food wasn't there at 12:00,
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he'd ask W here's our food?"
"It's on its way, Mr Hitchcock."
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I'd like to think that Hitchcock
was somewhat of a religious person.
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From time to time, he would
talk to me about religion,
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but he liked to poke fun
at religion a little bit.
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And you'll see that in Family Plot
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with the scene with the priest
and the children in the diner
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and the kidnapping
of the priest in the church
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in front of a full audience that
doesn't do too much about it.
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- You think he's sick?
- The original title was Deceit.
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And I believe Ernie Lehman
gave that title,
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but it always was
a temporary title, he told me.
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Eventually, it was Family Plot, and I
believe even the studio had suggestions.
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But Hitchcock had long liked
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single words for titles.
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Notorious, Psycho, Frenzy -
all had single-word titles.
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Family Plot was two words,
and he really didn't care for it,
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but he could never come up,
nor could the studio come up,
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with a single title.
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Deceit, being the original title
of the screenplay, didn't work for him.
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(Woman) My father still was active,
or wanted to be active.
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But he also was suffering.
He had a lot of illnesses at the time.
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And it was very hard.
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It was hard, you know, when they
did the location and all that,
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which he hated doing anyway because
he said it was such a waste of time.
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(Sighs) Well, that's the end of that.
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When I had one session with him
when we were talking about