Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Alfred Hitchcock died (29-4-1980) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 21:40:17 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 11 Message-ID: Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:40:26 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4e7c7fad808f50a1a19c85635168f8c5"; logging-data="1766416"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/x4vPUfDkwK72sqCaMvJUM9JRUzwDFyq0=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:VCMc1C0ePhiSazVUFWgMoKGxefs= Content-Language: en-GB X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Bytes: 1701 First Hitchcock film I ever saw: "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956). James Stewart and Doris Day. In the Moroccan Embassy in London, Doris sings "Que Sera Sera". She looks very serious in the picture; her son is being held hostage somewhere in the embassy, and she is trying to use the song to make contact with him. It was a brand new song at the time, first performance in this film. OK, here's a bit of language trivia: What is the origin of the phrase and what language is it supposed to be? Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Que_Sera,_Sera_(Whatever_Will_Be,_Will_Be)