Hitch the Whore

It's an old story, that Alfred Hitchcock refused to ever meet Steven Spielberg, but now we've finally got a reason why! Bruce Dern, who acted in Hitchcock's films Marnie and Family Plot, as well as a couple episodes of Hitchock's show, has the answer. From the New York Post:

"In his memoir, "Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have," due in May from Wiley, actor Bruce Dern writes that he tried and tried to convince the director of Psycho and The Birds to say hello to Spielberg, who had just triumphed with Jaws. "I said, 'You're his idol. He just to sit at your feet for five minutes and chat with you...

He said, 'Isn't that the boy who made the fish movie? . . . I could never sit down and talk to him... because I look at him and feel like such a whore,' " Dern relates.

Completely puzzled, Dern, who appeared in two Hitchcock flicks, finally pinned the director down: "I said, 'Why do you feel Spielberg makes you a whore?' Hitch said, 'Because I'm the voice of the Jaws ride [at Universal Studios]. They paid me a million dollars. And I took it and I did it. I'm such a whore. I can't sit down and talk to the boy who did the fish movie . . . I couldn't even touch his hand."

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