Word: blvd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once the home of chewing gum king William Wrigley, this Orange Grave Blvd, mansion now serves as the headquarters of the Tournament of Roses Association. Filled with television cameras and shivering boy scouts bearing float banners every January 1, Wrigley Mansion is the year-round home to a wealth of Pasadena history. Aside from the pictures of Rose Parades past, visitors can stop by to view Tournament aficionado Gene Autry's cowboy costume, the bathroom where the President Dwight D. Eisenhower once locked himself for hours shortly before the parade's start and all the marble a fortune in Doublemint...
...recipient of these sentiments -- and of a righteous punch from our hero in the film's most ungainly scene -- is the Sun's female managing editor, played by Glenn Close in a haggard, predatory tone, as if stranded between Fatal Attraction and Sunset Blvd. One can detect here the fine misogyny of screenwriter David Koepp, who had Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn destroy themselves for vanity's sake in Death Becomes Her. (Koepp wrote The Paper with his brother Stephen, a TIME senior editor...
...cagey chameleon, resigned to a notoriety he also enjoys. "I'm wondering," Alan muses, "who you are," and Claus replies, "Who would you like me to be?" And Sunny (Glenn Close) relates her own version from the hospital bed where she vegetates -- the most audacious narrative device since Sunset Blvd.' s story was told by a corpse floating facedown in a swimming pool...