The Birds News

Actress Tippi Hedren, star of "The Birds," poses with a wax figure of late director Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense, during an unveiling ceremony of the Hitchock figure at Madame Tussauds in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

There is an art to writing a great headline, one that has found its apogee at the New York tabloids, which has over the years produced such classics as "Headless Body in Topless Bar,""KissYour Asteroid Goodbye" and "Close But No Cigar" . But the British papers aren't far behind.

ACTRESS Tippi Hedren, who adopted Michael Jackson's two tigers at her Los Angeles area preserve, is urging animal lovers to mourn the late King of Pop by helping captive big cats.

Pixar, Dreamworks and LucasArts are major data crunchers in the Bay Area, with their studios using vast ranks of servers to render the latest animations and special effects.

ACCLAIMED film-maker Alfred Hitchcock once described San Francisco as 'a good location for a murder mystery'. So it is no wonder he set several of his famous thrillers, such as Vertigo and The Birds , in San Francisco and its Bay Area.

Frequent visitors to a delicatessen in San Antonio, Texas, say a pair of dive-bombing grackles have been pecking customers' heads.

There's an element of danger to eating at the Hatch. Signs everywhere warn that the seagulls that swoop and scream around the outdoor dining area are "extremely aggressive this season," and "will help themselves to your food." Tragically, "it is not our policy to replace food stolen by the birds." "Watch the sky!" the signs suggest.

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IN scenes similar to Alfred Hitchcock's classic film, The Birds, seagulls attempting to protect a chick have been divebombing people as they walk past.

The notion of remaking Alfred Hitchcock 's The Birds was absurd from day one, and now the Platinum Dunes guys are suggesting they've started to see the light.

It's so hard to get the script right. That's huge. And the limitations of birds... What do they do? They peck and poke." On Rosmary's Baby : "We're calling it Rosemary's Baby, but we're not doing that movie.

You guys know that I am not adverse to the idea of remakes since a remake in no way shape or form hurts or harms the original .

Brad Fuller, producer of the forthcoming Nightmare on Elm Street remake, told reporters that the future of his planned remake of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds is still up in the air.

Melanie Daniels is the daughter of a newspaper mogul and uses her "power" to conduct publicity stunts, like jumping in a lake naked.

Find out more about Wanda: Wanda Hennig, an award-winning food and travel writer, believes we are what we eat .

An aggressive blackbird has been terrorising city workers in San Francisco's financial district by repeatedly swooping at their heads in scenes reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds.

Laura and Kate Mulleavy are inspired by bird-pecked fabric. The Rodarte designers first realised their take on fashion was different to others when they watched 1963 horror movie 'The Birds', which sees an American town besieged by the winged creatures.

It's not exactly a scene out of Alfred Hitchcock's classic "The Birds," but it's close.

"The Happening" fails to add anything to the terror genre. Past films have had small groups of people racing to survive aliens from outer space or terrorists or some other deadly matter.

If you have ever been creeped out seeing a solid line of birds sitting on a power line or hearing a deafening squawk of a flock of birds during migration season, it's probably because you've seen a certain Alfred Hitchcock flick.