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Originally Posted by aaronk56
Sunset Boulevard
YES - GO
Actually, I had my T.V. on in the background & they were showing that movie when I came to the 2+2 site. I doubt too many folks here have seen it, but IMHO it is a Movie Classic.
There is a bunch of interesting "trivia" about it at the IMDb if anybody has any desire to read it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043014/...f_=tt_ql_trv_1
Here is 1 of the trivia remarks about the film which is one of the longer ones.
In "On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder", Ed Sikov relates a story about Wilder's explanation of the true meaning of the strange dead chimp scene from the start of the film. Sikov says that during the mid-1990s, both Wilder and former First Lady Nancy Reagan Reagan were at a party for an opening of one of the productions of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on the film, when, with Reagan nearby, an older woman approached Wilder with a question about what the chimp scene meant.
Wilder's typically outrageous answer, probably intended to shock the former First Lady as much as to inform the woman of the true meaning of the scene, was, "Don't you understand? Before Joe Gillis came along, Norma Desmond was fu_king the monkey."
Last edited by dex 1; 12-15-2013 at 04:04 PM.