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Alfred Hitchcock's ''Dial M for Murder'' (1954) is the inspiration for ''A Perfect Murder,'' which killed the competition at the box office last weekend, earning $16.3 million and finishing second to ''The Truman Show.'' The star of ''Murder,'' Michael Douglas, told EW Online about his first experience with Hitchcock -- nearly four decades ago when he was a teenager in the editing room on his father Kirk's western ''Lonely Are the Brave.''
''At the same time, down in the editing rooms, they were cutting 'Psycho,' '' said Douglas. ''We'd take our little lunch bags down and look at the outtakes of Janet Leigh in the shower sequence. We'd say, 'Ohmigod, woo-hoo. Stop right there. Oooh baby!' That went on for days.'' With a laugh, Douglas added, ''That's what happened. That's where it all went wrong for me.''
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