HITCHCOCK TO BE FETED DURING CULTURAL OLYMPIAD

Eighty-three years after scenes from Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail were filmed at the British Museum, the movie will be screened on an outdoor wall of the museum as part of a Hitchcock retrospective being mounted as part of the Cultural Olympiad, which coincides with this year’s London Olympics The British Film Institute (BFI) said Tuesday that […]

U.K. NEWSPAPER DEMANDS PUBLIC PROBE OF RIVAL

Britain’s Guardian newspaper has editorially called for an immediate public inquiry into new charges that politicians and celebrities were snooped on by private detectives working for Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid. Such an inquiry should occur, it said, before Murdoch is allowed to gain full control of Britain’s largest commercial television company, BSkyB. […]