Anthony Perkins on Arsenio Hall 1989

[stripedshirts]

wow, those screams....it's as if God entered the room!

[ChrisJ092]

It is a shame that the pilot for the series he did that he talked about (The Ghost Writer) was not picked up. I saw it here at youtube and it would have made a great show.

[pyrofella]

Arsenio Hall looks like badly drawn comic book character

[paulod27]

What I love about Anthony Perkins is that he embraced his role as Norman Bates throughout his life rather than whining about being typecast. Robert Englund and other known horror icons have done the same things with their character's too.

[listentome94]

@paulod27 For all of the 60s and 70s he was doing better roles but unfortunately the movies were not doing well at the box office. He only returned to playing Norman Bates in the 80s when, basically, he had no other options. It was a good performance, but Norman Bates is not a character than any actor would want to be known for.

[bls2134]

Anthony Perkins rip we all love u

[RASOOL28]

I loved Arsenio back in the day but he was truly embarrassing here as an interviewer. He obviously never saw any of the Psycho films and has no knowledge of Perkins career but must for some reason have been interested in him or Perkins agent fought to get him on the show, which I find hard to believe as Arsenio was considered for younger hipper minority viewers at the time.

[predlycon]

ah yes, anthony perkins and the signature stammering.

[JimmyJones]

Horrible that his wife died on the September 11 attacks.

[RetroBoyWontDie]

Arsenio always came off as a fun guy, but totally unprepared. Staring at the carpet, "Interesting...(dead air, dead air), so um...(dead air), now how did you get started in the business?"

[LTopomcFly]

He had the best guests though

[ZombieCallum]

Note Arsenio's embarrassing trip-up on the number of Psycho films.

There actually was an unofficial psycho 4 called BATES MOTEL imdb it. it came out a year before pyscho4

[spudbud4]

And another thing, that made not fucking sense BECAUSE! Norman WAS NOT! in Bates motel.... your a poor excuse for a Norman fan. :P

[ZombieCallum]

thats what I get for replying to your irrelivent comment :P anyway,. uhm yeah anthony wasn't in the movie, but Norman still played a huge part in the movies story :P

[spudbud4]

yeah, for like 5 mins. :P

He wasn't the main character, it was his friend.

[ZombieCallum]

but the whole story is around him though, him giving up the motel, his mother :P

[Tigerpaw10]

Arsenio comes off as a complete idiot in this interview.

He doesn't even have the vocabulary let alone brain power or knowledge to engage Anothony Perkins in conversation!

James Lipton where are you when we need you!

One of the great actors of the 20th century.

I still can't believe his wife was killed on September 11th.

[spudbud4]

Arsenio hall can see the future!!!! Psycho 5 with Vince Vaughn! :O

[ZombieCallum]

don't you guys know about the other psycho movie? bates motel? look it up on imdb you dumbass excuse for norman fans

[spudbud4]

I knew about bates motel, But i dont consider it number 5. (Technically 4 if your doing it by year it came out)

Because it was a horrible piece of doo,doo!

[jeanise10]

In this day and time he could have been gay and maybe been free to be who he was. I think it is so sad when people have lives that they are afraid to live because of what other people think , he was such a good actor

[NellieForbush]

true, but it showed he hated himself for even being Bisexual, so he got some help, and he fell in love with his wife by just looking at her picture, i thought that was kinda sweet, but i agree, he was a great actor

[jupithou]

What a terrible interviewer this guy is.

[hennyjen]

It may just be me, but I cringed everytime Arsenio said 'interesting'. Maybe do a little more research before the guest comes on...?

[usuc4lyfe]

gone too soon.

[Chris9Cole9Zero]

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