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Posted inColumns, Entertainment, Featured, Laughing Matters, Movie Reviews, Opinion

Two Birds With One Phone

In 1963, Alfred Hitchcock directed and produced “The Birds,” an extremely successful and scary movie. Much of the action took place on an island in Bodega Bay, a quaint, sleepy town on the Pacific Ocean. (Oddly enough, that used to perfectly describe Santa Monica.) The story begins innocently enough until wealthy and attractive Melanie Daniels […]

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