Am happy to report that the Alfred Hitchcock Scholars/'MacGuffin' Web site receives a fillip starting tonight when its "Editor's Day" feature becomes "[Guest] Editor's Day" for a few months. I can promise you much valuable information. Three leading authors of books on film will be contributing their knowledge and opinion. They are: Dan Auiler (author of 'VERTIGO: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic' and compiler/editor of the forthcoming mammoth 'Hitchcock's Notebooks'); Adrian Martin (Australia's top film critic, whose monograph in the BFI Modern Classics Series, 'Once Upon a Time in America', has been drawing high praise); and Dr Tag Gallagher (author of the standard work, 'John Ford', and the newly-published biography, 'The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini'). Dan leads off tonight, writing mainly, or exclusively, about Hitchcock. Adrian will then be chiming in on film matters in general, including - he has indicated - such topics as SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (critical!); Manny Farber on Hitch; the style of John Woo; the glorious cinema of Brian de Palma; etc. And Tag Gallagher will be joining in from about mid-January (on, undoubtedly, Ford and Rossellini, but also much else - perhaps including Douglas Sirk, about whom Tag has written in the latest 'Film Comment'). So this is likely to be an exciting time on the Web, and I trust that many of you will care to pay us regular visits. Meanwhile, the latest hardcopy 'MacGuffin' is out. Contributors include Prof.Murray Pomerance on a key scene in THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956); Dr Sue Smith on an aspect of LIFEBOAT; Craig Canfield reviewing Camille Paglia's 'The Birds'; and Ken Mogg on UNDER CAPRICORN. Thanks for reading this. - Ken Mogg (Ed., 'The MacGuffin'). <[log in to unmask]> http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite