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...Sunset Boulevard. Billy Wilder utilized his detailed knowledge of Hollywood decadence in writing the Oscar-winning screenplay to an all-that-glitters-is-not-sequins sunset city epic. William Holden gurgles the narration from his face down predicament in Gloria Swanson's swimming pool, but after the devastingly effective shot of Miss Swanson descending the spiral staircase, it is understandable why he chose to watch the action from that vantage point. One gets the feeling that only those who have seen this peculiar type of behavior will appreciate it, and maybe even they wouldn't. Channel...
...part, the answers lie in the fact that the so-called entertainment is never really entertaining. A couple of solid citizens, Yaphet Kotto and Geoffrey Holder, are underemployed as an island dictator cum pusher and his witchdoctor hireling while Jane Seymour, Gloria Hendry and Madeline Smith are comely enough but curiously sexless sex objects. They, like Moore, suffer a sort of weightlessness, a lack of humanness, which is what Sean Connery as 007 lent previous Bond adventures. The raunchy adolescent humor that helped audiences giggle past the ugly inhuman stuff in previous Bond films like Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever...
...Gloria Steinem, D.H.J., editor...
...Roosevelts of Hyde Park, Elliott says that everyone within the family, including Eleanor, accepted Missy's intimacy with the President. Another skeleton Elliott rattles with apparent enthusiasm is that of Joseph Kennedy, whom, he claims, his father had urged to end his great and good friendship with Actress Gloria Swanson. "Joe replied that he would be willing only 'if you give up Missy LeHand.' " Elliott writes further: "Father looked on that as a score to be settled. When Kennedy arrived back in disgrace [after he was forced to resign as Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
Dracula's Daughter. (1936) Engaging sequel to the original "Dracula" with Gloria Holden as the bloodthirsty off-spring and Otto Kruger as a fellow-traveler. CH.5...