(Jim Wynorski directed the 1989 sequel.) In 1990, USA Network aired a live-action TV series from Joseph Stefano that ran for three seasons, with Fox producing a short-lived animated series in the early 1990s that aired in Canada after it was pulled from the schedule. (Syfy later aired it in syndica
ate to the tortured Bates and win the role. Ralph Macchios cameo as screenwriter Joseph Stefano lends dark humor and insight into Hitchs vision for Psycho when he describes his daily sessions with a psychiatrist as revolving conversations about anger, rage, my mother. Hitch raises his eyebrows with u
itchcock director Sacha Gervasi inflates this presumption of Revilles importance and, in the process, downplays the crucial contributions of novelist Robert Bloch (who received only about $5,000, and no royalties, for film rights to the book that made Hitchcock a fortune) and screenwriter Joseph Stefano (
Joseph Stefano Reduced to one scene, the screenwriter (Ralph Macchio) contributed many of Psychos most famous lines. Rebello chronicles the evolving director-scripter relationship, from highs (Hitch being moved to near-tears when Stefano compliments him on Vertigo) to lows (a disagreement regarding
exaggerated horizontal dimple. When Psychos screenwriter Joseph Stefano (Ralph Macchio) describes his own daily therapy sessions as revolving around sex, rage, my mother, Hopkins eyebrows sail upward in delight as the unfortunate chin dips down and threatens to sail off entirely. Its the most