Eve Kendall and MeEve Kendall. Why I am on a train heading from New York to Chicago can be understood in reference to Eve Kendall. She was a character played by Eva Marie Saint in Alfred Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest.” She meets Roger O. Thornhill—Cary Grant—on a train from New York to Chicago. He happens to be on the run from the police (and James Mason) and sneaks onto the Twentieth Century Limited at Grand Central. They meet in the dining car and, realizing his predicament, she hides him in her compartment. Where they spend the night. And it being Hitchcock, a lot of stuff happens. This is the one that ends up at Mount Rushmore.
That movie, which I first saw when I was sixteen or seventeen, is one of my favorites. But I did not want to be Eve Kendall. I wanted to be Roger Thornhill d
