The secrets of "Psycho's" shower scene:
Fifty years ago this month, untold numbers of Americans stopped taking showers. The cause of this sudden downturn in personal hygiene was not a shortage of soap or water but, rather, an overabundance of fear and dread after viewing what all film buffs know simply as "the shower scene" in Alfred Hitchcock’s just-then-released "Psycho."
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