If you never have had a 'Poison Pen' Character Assassination' aimed at you, you cannot know the suicidal destructiveness of such actions.

HER ACTIONS ARE NECESSARY - AND BRILLIANT!!!🫡🫡🫡

Remake of PSYCHO: Perhaps the worst thing (&, LORD! It's drowning in dreck!) is the fact that the one thing they COULD DO is the one thing they DON'T DO: Give Marion Crane Dead Eyes!

CGI would have created the 'black pools' of dead eyes. NOPE! THE ONE THING THEY DIDN'T CHANGE!

(Pardon me while I go get some Pepto Bismol)

Burgess Meredith was in several, including the horrific depressing TIME ENOUGH AT LAST.

(Still don't know why that poor little 'bookworm' had to be so cruelly punished

Gladys Cooper, a major character actress & star of Old Hollywood (NOW VOYAGER starring Bette Davis, whose virago mother she played) is heart-breaking as the frightened old woman. If you can find this episode, See It!

Hopkins's Lecter is like a crazy-eyed King Cobra, hood in full extension, weaving back & forth, Flash & Trash "LOOK OUT! I'M DANGEROUS!"

BRIAN COX's Lektor is like a Nile Asp, quietly lying by the path you are walking, there but unnoticed until - !!BAM!! - you're dead!

ANTHONY HOPKINS IS ALL FLASH & TRASH, LOOK AT ME, EVERYBODY PAY ATTENTION!!

BRIAN COX'S LEKTOR? I can see happening something that would NEVER happen with Hopkin's Lector: some pompous-@π$e professor of Psych 101 from one of those 'cornfield university' calling a press conference to announce " There Has Been A Grotesque Miscarriage Of Justice! THIS MAN IS NOT INSANE! And I (along with several A & B List celebrities) Are Going To Wage A Public Campaign To Free Him!"

Watch COX's performance in MANHUNTER (the whole staging of Will Graham's & Lektor 's first meeting is SO MUCH BETTER ORCHESTRATED!) Then compare it with the same scene (poorly executed) in RED DRAGON.

YOU'LL SEE WHAT I MEAN!!!