First Contact ( not Star Trek )

[princealbertofb]

LOL no not so much, either. Except a couple of the bands the Oscar Wilde guy has on the inside of his locker. I'm hopeless at fashion and decorating, don't think I've seen The Wizard of Oz more than average person, and never saw Sunset Boulevard or Baby Jane. Definitely hear these quoted out and about tho, but I guess each generation has its own touchstones .

Shifty, you're not the only one who hasn't run the whole gay mile... I have Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? on my computer and it's been sitting there for ages, and I still have to watch it. I have, on the other hand, seen the Wizard of Oz but maybe no more than a couple of times and I own a copy of the DVD too. I bought Sunset Boulevard ages ago too and my boyfriend and I finally got to watch it, but I think it was only last year. So we're no longer Sunset Boulevard virgins... lol
The modern world offers so much cultural stuff and everything moves so fast that there's never going to be enough time for us to sample it all... Just one of those things. If you also want to have a bit of time to cook, go to the cinema, dance, listen to music and troll the Internet, what's a man going to do???

[princealbertofb]

Lol, they went over pretty well. They left very little to the imagination....after we kissed for a bit they left even less to the imagination.

Haha, well, what did you expect? What did the others expect??? We're only human.
Take care.

[Hardheaded1]

OMG. I'd never seen Sunset Blvd until Jay was here this last time. Neither had he. We were glued to the screen right up to then end until THAT LINE with THAT LOOK from Norma Desmond. After that we couldn't quit laughing.

Gloria Swanson earned well her accolades for that performance. She had lived through the silent era and knew it well. Her carefully crafted melodrama was so dead on to what the silent camera demanded of its stars. As has been documented, it created a self-extinguishing cast as actors from that training had to tone it down in order to fit into the smaller lens of the talkies.

I saw a live production of Sunset Boulevard about 15 years ago, the musical version with Petula Clark playing Desmond. She performed admirably. I was afraid the setting of it to music would reduce it to camp, but it survived just fine.

Thanks to Swanson, no one will ever forget "I'm ready for my closeup."