A boy's best friend is his mother.

"To me, he was a leading man. But to the rest of the world, he`ll always be Norman Bates. People just wouldn`t let him be anything else."  - Janet Leigh  I love Anthony Perkins, and this is my appreciation blog :)

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Donations for Dani’s Surgery, organized by Jody Maroccia

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norman bates was 27 years old running the bates motel. she should’ve been at the club

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I’m looking for a man who owns a motel

Mommy issues

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Green eyes

(Please note this is joke but i find it funny and love him😭)

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ITS HERE!!!!

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quick someone tell me if this is a self portrait on the wall so I can make fun of him

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for op, it is indeed a self portrait

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Audiophile Anthony Perkins spins discs on a Garrard Lab 80 record player positioned next to his Zenith Royal 2000 Trans-Symphony radio, notable as the first American AM/FM portable radio, and also the first portable radio with Automatic Frequency Control. This photo was featured in a pictorial about Tony published in Ciné-Télé-Revue magazine in France on December 23rd, 1965.

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Rock Hudson and Anthony Perkins have a chat at Cinecittà Studios in Rome Italy, photos by Franco Vitale, 1956. Rock was in Rome filming A Farewell to Arms at the time, and Tony was working at Cinecittà starring in the René Clément/Dino De Laurentiis drama This Angry Age, a role he was cast in after James Dean, the film's original star, lost his life in a car accident the year before. Of Rock, Tony was later quoted by divisive lgbtq+ author Boze Hadleigh in his books Hollywood Babble On (1995) and Hollywood Gays (1996) as rather bluntly stating: "Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea." (It's important to note that Hadleigh's purported interviews with Tony and other stars have often been called into question and should be taken with a grain of salt.) Hudson and Perkins both later died tragically from AIDS, Rock at age 59 in 1985 and Tony at age 60 in 1992.

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Anthony Perkins in an unusual (pre-Psycho) Paramount Pictures publicity portrait from 1959.

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Anthony Perkins poses on a Vespa near Cinecittà Studios in Rome, Italy, photo by Pierluigi Praturlon, 1957. Tony was in Rome filming the René Clément/Dino De Laurentiis drama This Angry Age at the time.

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Thoughts on Five Miles to Midnight (1962)

Movies like this are why I don't take critics seriously. I really enjoyed this one so much more than I expected. It's not a perfect movie-- I found myself wishing Hitchcock had directed it instead-- but it's a deliciously dark psychological thriller.

Sophia Loren and Anthony Perkins are Lisa and Bob, a married couple living in Paris. Bob is a possessive, emotionally unstable jerk. Lisa can't handle the abuse anymore and wants a divorce, but Bob refuses. When Bob takes a flight to Casablanca, the plane crashes midway, reportedly leaving no survivors.

Before Lisa can feel liberated, Bob returns to their apartment days later, bloodied and bruised. Turns out he survived, but he doesn't want her to tell anyone because his life insurance policy will make the two of them rich beyond their wildest dreams. Lisa just wants Bob out of her life, so the two make a deal: Lisa will hide Bob in her apartment while going through the process of collecting the money and then Bob will start a new life elsewhere, never darkening her doorstep again.

Several factors complicate this simple plan: a nosy kid peeking into the apartment from across the street, a sleazy neighbor hoping to put the moves on the now available Lisa, Bob's aggressive sexual jealousy towards his repulsed wife, and Lisa being at her wits' end as her husband tries to convince her to stay with him despite everything.

I was fascinated by the two main characters in this movie. Bob is a narcissist of the highest order and Lisa is vulnerable but manipulative in her own way (we learn she mainly married Bob to escape a bad situation, a truth which makes Bob bitter). Their messy marital drama blended well with the crime element, giving the film the grim vibe of noir.

My only issue is that some of the suspense scenes could have used a surer hand and more tension. I really think Hitchcock would have done a great job with this story. However, as it is, the performances are good and the story kept my interest. I don't get why it's considered such a dud. Maybe it's because none of the characters are super sympathetic? I don't care-- they were INTERESTING and Lisa was sympathetic enough for all her faults, so I was invested.

Also, I love Perkins' sunglasses and leather gloves look. What an aesthetic!

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Throwing a silly guy in here

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