Sunday, September 21, 2014

I'm Ready for My Close-Up

All right, Dr. Frazier, I'm ready for my close-up.

How do I feel? Like Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard.

Busting a gut!

It's 4:00 am. I can't sleep. Watching an old movie with William Holden and Gloria Swanson.

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Sunset Boulevard was directed and co-written by the great Billy Wilder. The movie made the top 20 of the AFI’s 100 Years / 100 Movies both times it was formulated, and also has two quotes in the top 25 of AFI’s 100 Years / 100 Movie quotes:

“All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” (#7) and

“I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.” (#25)




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