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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-17 (Friday)
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 10:22:15 -0800
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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.