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That key scene the shower scene, one of cinema's most memorable moments is handled strongly. There's more blood, more clear views of the stabbing, but it isn't overdone; it doesn't veer into Quentin Tarantino territory. Julianne Moore portrays Marion's sister, played by Vera Miles in the original. We first see her wearing a Walkman, and she is feisty and impatient, befitting a '90s woman who has found out her sister is missing. The private detective, Arbogast, is played by William H.

Macy in a Rat Pack suit and hat, with Robert Forster as the psychiatrist who pulls together all the loose ends at the close. Watching this movie, I felt as if I were watching a favorite play. It may not hit as hard as the first time you saw it, but it's still worth a second viewing. Think of all the times Shakespeare's work has been presented, or Neil Simon's. Nobody wrings their hands when that material is rehashed, as they have with this bold Psycho experiment The question remains, why redo a masterpiece? But I applaud Van Sant for taking an artistic risk when faced with a lot of skepti- account and open a new one.

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Yet once you hear the strident chords of Bernard Herrmann's brilliant score, see those horizontal lines slash across the opening credits (now against a vivid green background), your heart beats faster. For what makes a movie great hut its screenplay, its music, the way it's shot? By staying faithful to the original Joseph Stefano script and Hitchcock's shooting directions, Van Sant was working with pure gold. Danny Elfman interprets Herrmann's score. The director describes this more as homage than remake, and it should be viewed in that spirit This Psycho is edgier, darker and campy in the way it plays off the fashions and sets of the original The most dramatic scenes -the stabbing in the shower, the nurder on the stairs are more HOLD Bad check charges cost Akron woman $74 Continued from Page El vour behalf and found it just as exasperating as you did. After 20 minutes, when the receptionist again picked up the phone to say, "Can you hold?" I found myself quickly trying to interject some small piece of information that might persuade her to patch me through to a supervisor or manager.

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