Dear friends - After a very long time away, I am returning to duty on the Web tomorrow, on my website. The "Editor's Day" feature will re-commence on the Hitchcock Scholars website's News & Comment (Home) page. Also coming soon will be a page on the same website devoted to "Hitchcock and [the novelist] Dickens", utilising material from "Editor's Day" written as long ago as 1998 but going much, much further. It will take some inspiration from Grahame Smith's 'Dickens and the Dream of Cinema' (2003) which I am currently reading and enjoying. But - please - do not think of the said website as either narrow and esoteric, on one hand, nor trivial and beneath your dignity, on another hand, nor yet un-entertaining and lacking in inspiration, on yet another hand (use your friend's hand if your own are already accounted for). I will do my utmost to steer a course that caters to a generous assortment of Hitchcockians and film aficionados and their inclinations. Just reading some past "Editor's Day" entries from previous years recently, made me very aware of how much valuable stuff came from our readers, often on an almost daily basis. So I am hoping that you will start tuning in again regularly and won't think twice about asking a question, passing a remark, or tossing your hat into the circle. The heading of this email is asking you not to be inhibited about it. My email address will also be found at the top of this message. Have a good year. Sincerely - Ken Mogg (Ed., 'The MacGuffin'). Website: http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin P.S. 'The MacGuffin' #29 (hardcopy) comes out this month and contains really good stuff. But I will not blow trumpets about it here. With you, if you're a serious Hitchcockian, a wink is as good as a clarion call. (Wink!) ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html