HEDREN: And I - they had no intention of using mechanical birds. And I said, What's the matter with you? And he said, The mechanical birds don't work, we have to use real ones. HEDREN: The morning we were to start that scene, the assistant director came in, Jim Brown he couldn't look at me. Hitchcock, how would we be doing this scene where I walk up the stairs and go into that room? And he said, Oh, we're going to use the mechanical birds. HEDREN: You know, when I first read the script I said, And Mr. HEDREN: Of course you do, every time you see one.
I think about it every three or four days. HEDREN: Do you remember the scene where I go up to that room and open the door and all the ravens and seagulls attack me? SIMON: Now, I read, I think in some Hitchcock biography, that at least a few of those birds in that horrifying scene, where you and Rod Taylor are being assaulted, that at least a few of those birds were real. And I want to tell you, we have the healthiest flock of raven you have ever seen and they're big and shiny. HEDREN: And because they're meat eaters - so, and they know the whole pattern of when the animals are fed. HEDREN: Because, you know, we serve about 500 pounds of meat every day, we have this huge flock of raven who live on the preserve. HEDREN: Oh actually, just, I have to tell you something funny. SIMON: Can we go from cats to birds for a moment? You don't see lame animals in the wild, and it's all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats. These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. HEDREN: The thing that's so fascinating about this is that these are apex predators. SIMON: So what fascinates you so much about large cats? You know, none of these animals are good pets and they will eventually get to the point where, where - or the people who have them will get to the point where they can't deal with them any longer. SIMON: How did they wind there? I think a lot of people might remember when Michael Jackson's two Bengal tigers were brought there. We've got a tremendous number of the exotic feline. HEDREN: We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spotted leopard, mountain lion, Asian leopard cats. SIMON: So who do you have out there at Shambala? Hedren, thanks so much for being with us. Tippi Hedren joins us now from Acton, California.
The honor comes from the Genesis Awards, the Humane Society's Oscar ceremony for animal rights, for her work in behalf of lions, tigers and other large felines at the Shambala Preserve that she founded in 1983. This year she received a Lifetime Achievement Award, but not for acting.
A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS HAIR CAT SERIES
Although best known as Hitchcock's imperturbable cool blonde, Tippi Hedren's appeared in many other films and TV series over the years and produced others.
Tippi Hedren is probably still best known for being pecked nearly to death by 100 inexplicably angry birds in Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 classic, "The Birds," but(ph) she kept her fur coat on and barely a hair out of place.
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