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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-17 (Friday) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 10:22:15 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 35 Message-ID: <vmgrgn$11jsh$1@dont-email.me> References: <vmgnlq$vdoo$1@dont-email.me> <vmgobp$10lfb$1@dont-email.me> <vmgp6q$10ckl$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 19:22:16 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="788c8069b8573657fccc9aa3045606ce"; logging-data="1101713"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18D4JVhMXZyjje+9xlV755rfeW32gMWebE=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:s9Xdr2d4K1+xiODKWZvF1cQuos8= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <vmgp6q$10ckl$2@dont-email.me> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 250118-4, 1/18/2025), Outbound message Bytes: 3200 On 1/18/2025 9:42 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: > Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote: > >> Sunset Boulevard (TCM) 1950 movie directed by Billy Wilder and starring >> William Holden as a down on his luck Hollywood screenwriter who while >> trying to evade having his car repossessed finds himself hiding out at >> the estate of a very rich former silent film star (Gloria Swanson). The >> aging star has delusions of current fame and manipulates Holden into >> moving in with her to rewrite a screenplay she wrote. Holden >> desperately needs the money and tolerates her nonsense. The movie >> follows the two as they have their ups and downs, with very minor ups, >> and a huge down for both of them. I never saw this movie before now. >> It was pretty good. I did notice Holden's character in this movie was >> very similar to his character in "The Bridge on the River Kwai." And >> while I only saw it once, and don't remember it all that well, wasn't >> Holden playing the same character in Stalag 17 too? I'm not sure if he >> just plays himself in all his movies or he was directed to act that way. > > Sefton in Stalag 17 (1953, also directed by Wilder) gets scenes in which > he is in charge, so that's different than the other two movies, but yes, > I'll agree that Holden had a type. > > What amused me about Swanson is that in real life, she was well aware > that her time in Hollywood had come and was long gone, which is why she > lived in New York and was performing in the occassional stage play. She > shared no delusions with Norma Desmond. Interesting. I looked her up during the movie and saw her character perhaps mirrored the actress a bit. I forgot to mention I also watched the new episodes of Law and Order and Law and Order: SVU. They were both OK. Although I would think it would be a *lot* harder than that to put an FBI agent on trial in state court for conduct done during an active terrorist operation. But that's just me.