Damian: I hadn’t heard that Anthony Hopkins wanted to play Hitchcock. It sounds like they’re doing this as a biopic, like Walk The Line. I don’t know. Let’s see if a director get attached. If the movie gets made, then we’ll have a third actress behind Janet Leigh and Anne Heche to play Marion Crane. Maggie Gyllenhaal was the first actress to come to mind. And don’t worry, man, I am resettitng my expectations to “zero” before I watch Psycho.

You may be right in that hearing how bad it was for so long (from folks like myself) helped you to find the good things in it, whereas I was expecting far more from Hitch back when I first saw it. This sort of makes me nervous about the extent to which I’ve praised Psycho. Perhaps I’ve doen more harm than good in my praise of it, building up too much expectation by telling you that it’s a great film before you’ve even had the chance to make that decision for yourself. I could see you possibly being really let down by it. But oh, dear God, I hope not.

Also, I don’t know if you saw this story yet or not, but I think this could be a very good idea.