must all the trivia call him SIR Alfred Hitchocck
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SealedCargo — 6 years ago(March 09, 2020 06:20 AM)
it's so annoying, whether it's Hitchcock or Tom Courtenay or whoever, whenever they're referred to on politically correct imdb trivia it's always SIR this and SIR that, it's so annoying because they were NOT knighted celebs back then…
when I added something about Courtenay I just wrote his name, and then in parantheses wrote "(he was not SIR then)" just to cover my ass.
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MissMargoChanning — 6 years ago(March 10, 2020 09:42 PM)
SIR?
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I have never heard of anyone referring to him as Sir Alfred Hitchcock.
Sir Paul McCartney? Constantly! It's ridiculous.
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telegonus — 2 years ago(May 20, 2023 07:12 AM)
MissMargo: A classic movie host on a local TV station used to call Hitchcock Sir Alfred every time he showed a Hitch flick.
Although many critics rated him highly, even described him as well informed, I found this local yokel a jackass. His use of "Sir Alfred" sounded not only pretentious but dumb. He wasn't the brightest bulb to begin with, and his musings on Hitchcock and, worse, David Selznick's book of memos that referenced Hitch made him sound like not an "insider" but an "outsider", way out of his depth.
I know this must sound hateful, and I don't mean it that way. He was probably a nice man, doing his best. His employers at the TV station must have liked him; and apparently many viewers did, too.
The city of Boston is not the sophisticated place it's been made out to be. There are pockets of it, in colleges, in the arts and art schools, not so much in the general public, and FWIW, what I'm describing happened thirty plus years ago and counting. The times have changed, and the city isn't quite the same as it was when it was more of a regional center than the world class metropolis wannabe it is today.
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