Family Plot
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Two times I made him laugh out loud,
so we had to do it over.

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That was one scene, and the other
scene was I threw in a line

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when we're going down
the mountain in the car.

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The car is going off the road,
we have no brakes.

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The guy's tried to kill us
by screwing our brakes up,

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and she's climbing all over me,
and I threw in that line,

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-"God, I gotta get off this road."
- (Horn Blaring)

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- I gotta get off this road.
- And he just laughed out loud.

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(Black) He must have known
I was sort of, like, good with English.

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He was always testing me.
He said to me,

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(Imitating Hitchcock) "Your work today
was very perspicacious, Miss Black."

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"Oh, perspicacious.
Doesn't that mean 'keenly perceptive'?"

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"I was being keenly perceptive today?"
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"Is that what you mean, Mr Hitchcock?"
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(Imitating Hitchcock) "Yes!
You were keenly perceptive today."

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"Your work was keenly perceptive."
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Alfred Hitchcock, obviously, had
always appeared in his own pictures,

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and one of the first things
one would ask is,

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Where are you going to want
to appear?"

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And Mr Hitchcock
never gave me the answer,

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and he really didn't know.
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And we talked about many places,
and I suggested many places,

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and he always vetoed them.
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(Dern) He says, "I'm thinking
of not making an appearance."

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I said, "A w, God. I think
you got to make an appearance."

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He said, W ell, how about
that I do but I don't?"

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And he said, "How about I don't appear,
but my image appears?"

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"So, how would you do that?"
He said, W atch this."

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(Typewriter Clacking, Dinging)
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No, there is no death certificate here
for Edward Shoebridge.

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Only Harry J Shoebridge
and Sadie L Shoebridge.

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(Kazanjian) It wasn't till we were
long in the picture

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that he came up with the idea of using
his silhouette behind the office door.

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And he said,
"I'll be talking to a woman there."

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And I put Ellen Sway in there.
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It was my role to pick that person,
so I put Ellen Sway,

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who was a dear old extra.

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