VL-IV (15) One Movie Pitch After Another, page 346

[Robin Landseadel]

	"Your story could be an example to others," Hector was purring,
	trying for a Latin Heartthrob effect, "an inspiration."

	"Get them off drugs, right? Hector, Hector. I grew up hearing too
	much of this all the time, one movie pitch after another, my
	mother was a reader, then a story editor, even a writer, at first I
	thought they were all real, all I had to do was wait a little and I'd
	get to see every one of them on a screen someday."

Sasha's resume echos Alma Reville, wife of Alfred Hitchcock:

	She is best known as the wife of Alfred Hitchcock, whom she
	met while they were working together at Paramount's Famous
	Players-Lasky studio in London, during the early 1920s. She
	converted to Roman Catholicism before their marriage.

	They married on 2 December 1926 at Brompton Oratory in
	London. Alma became his collaborator and sounding board,
	with a keen ear for dialogue and an editor's sharp eye for
	scrutinizing a film's final version for continuity flaws so minor
	they escaped Hitchcock's own notice, and that of his top-notch
	crew.

	Cinema was the couple’s passion. A talented editor, Alma
	worked on British films with directors like Berthold Viertel
	and Maurice Elvey, though her main focus was her husband’s
	work. She was particularly good at revising dialogue and
	spotting inconsistencies in his plots.

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Reville

	ALMA: Don't think I haven't forgotten about Ingrid.

	HITCHCOCK: Oh, please.

	 ALMA: Could you have made a bigger fool of yourself? I can
	only imagine what you felt when she finally married that other
	balding foreign director.

	Hitch gravely stares into the mirror, as if it were an oracle.

	HITCHCOCK: Alma, things haven't been so bad for us. We
	travel, we dine in the finest restaurants, we have a lovely
	daughter. I'm a happily married man.
	
	She stares at his guilty reflection in the fogged mirror.

	ALMA: Someone like you can never be happy.

	http://members.tripod.com/~hitchandalma/Alma.htm
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