Hithcock a kinky psycho?

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A real Psycho and his Birds

SPELLBOUND BY BEAUTY by Donald Spoto (Hutchinson, £20)

By Val Hennessy

Last updated at 3:51 PM on 06th June 2008

The movies are disturbing, the director of those movies was disturbed. Or, for 'disturbed', read kinky, weird, aberrant or even perverted. Donald Spoto, world authority on Alfred Hitchcock and with two major Hitchcock biographies already under his belt, paints a repellent and sleazy picture of his reclusive, odd-ball hero.

In the late 1970s, Spoto taped many interviews with Hitchcock and shared long lunches, during which the talk flowed 'very freely indeed'. Much too freely for Hitchcock's family, who, after his death in 1980, begged Spoto to leave his image temporarily untarnished.

We have to take Spoto's word for this, of course, and we have to trust that his 'never-been-told' revelations and 'previously withheld material' are authentic non-fabrications. If they are, then clearly the Hitchcock who waddles through his pages turns out to be a very strange man indeed.

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