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...been a long time since Hollywood Boulevard glittered with the perfervid glamour of the '20s. The Boulevard of Broken Dreams tarnished slowly for decades, declining by the late '60s and early '70s to the same sleazy fate as its East Coast counterpart, Times Square. Cleanup efforts partly succeeded, and now, on weekdays, some stretches feel like the downtown of a small city. But, says Police Sergeant Bob Rebhan, "I wouldn't go up Hollywood Boulevard on a weekend night without being armed...
Jean Rochefort has heretofore put his sheepish grin and Slinky-like gait into the service of boulevard comedy. Here he is both more powerful and more discreet, signaling the film's shifting moods with each new spasm of Gilles's anticipation and anguish. Delphine Seyrig, who plays his neighbor, the lovely, slow-witted Yvette, was once the very model of Marienbad chic. It is a pleasure to see those enigmatic eyes widen in what Yvette means to convey as delight, to see her smile squirm at Gilles's gentle ribaldry...
...Samuel Taylor Coleridge were a contemporary real estate developer, he would not have decreed a stately pleasure dome in Xanadu but on a milelong strip of Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard. That is where the smart money and the most luxurious dreams currently reside. When construction is finished within two years, 21 high-rise condominium towers will dominate the skyline west of Beverly Hills. They will outprice any concentration of privately owned apartments in the world, including Paris' fashionable Avenue Foch and the moneyed battlements of Manhattan's Park and Fifth Avenues...
...last week all the way to Cannes, where key industry figures from around the world gathered for the annual wheeling and movie dealing at the industry's premier film festival. High-rolling producers like Richard Zanuck still vied for choice tables at sidewalk cafés along the Boulevard de la Croisette, while aspiring starlets jousted for the attention of the camera-toting paparazzi. But Variety summed up the atmosphere in the headline: LACK OF ZEST AT CANNES FILM FEST...
That desire has made L'Amour a millionaire. Like one of his protagonists, the novelist lives virtuously, if not primitively, with his wife of 24 years and their two teenage children. Their Spanish-style mansion in Los Angeles, just off Sunset Boulevard, contains a reference library of some 8,000 volumes within its walls. L'Amour is secretive about his age; published estimates put him in his early 70s, but he has the look and vigor of a man much younger, turning out three novels a year with metronomic regularity. He shuns the Hollywood party circuit...