Suspicion written by Samson Raphaelson, directed by Alfred Hitchcock was the 1942 Winner of The Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Joan Fontaine, it was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture, it is also one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – you find a multitude of notes on films from The NYT and other sites, plus reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other pages on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

Suspicion written by Samson Raphaelson, directed by Alfred Hitchcock was the 1942 Winner of The Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Joan Fontaine, it was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture, it is also one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – you find a multitude of notes on films from The NYT and other sites, plus reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other pages on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

 

8 out of 10

 

Alfrred Hitchcock was one of the greatest auteurs.

 

Indeed, the term was coined for him, even if William Goldman https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/adventures-in-screen-trade-by-william.html explains it is a mistake to attribute the whole motion picture to one man, even if he has a massive talent, and most often a giant ego

Notorious https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/notorious-written-by-ben-hecht-directed.html is another movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock which ranks with the best, and now I realize that I have seen Vertigo on the British Film Institute new release, and it is near the top, next to Persona by Ingmar Bergman

 

-          At least, I think. It is easy to check it

 

Cary Grant has the leading role of Johnnie Aysgarth, while Joan Fontaine has won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance as Lina McLaidlaw – I remember I made a bet connected with Cary Grant, one of the fabulous thespians

I was challenged at the club downtown by this woman, we used to be friends – I would say – met there often, and she kept telling me I should get a divorce, because things were not great, on the contrary, and I was a fool, in her view

 

-          Maybe I am

 

Nevertheless, somehow, we were talking about Cary Grant, and she said he was gay, and I contradicted her, to which she insisted that ‘she is ready to bet on it, and if she loses, I get to have sex with her’, which was more than outré

 

-          Alas, I could not prove that I was right

 

Johnnie Aysgarth seems to be a gigolo, or better said a fortune hunter, and now that I write this, maybe he was, like above, it was not proved to me, there is a plot, and if he was suspected of something and we see he did not do that…

 

-          Well, it does not mean that he will keep clean

 

Then there is Blink https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/blink-power-of-thinking-without.html the classic by Malcolm Gladwell, and the Thin Slicing Theory and the Harding Effect, with the study of the CEOs of the Top 500 companies

 

I say that Johnnie was no good, that is my (probably wrong) assessment, although maybe the whole point of this is to say do not be suspicious, very often, a scoundrel is not the way he seems, only I just do not have the time to waste with this type of human

https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/08/hitchcocktruffaut-by-francois-truffaut.html

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

 

 

 

 

 

 

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