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...Billy Wilder had a problem: finding a piece of furniture for his afternoon naps. "After all," the famed movie director (Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment) confided to a friend, "a man of my reputation simply can't afford to have something that looks like a casting couch in his office. It's too obvious a symbol of lechery...
...Union Pacific train advises passengers that "on days livestock is to be carried, Train 82 runs about a half-hour later than the schedule shows." The Southern Pacific, the nation's most profitable railroad, has employed classic tactics to depopularize the once elegant Los Angeles-to-New Orleans Sunset. Phone calls for departure and arrival information go unanswered, and printed schedules are hard to find. Anyone venturesome enough to get aboard can expect 44 hours in a coach seat (no sleepers) and meals from a bank of vending machines...
...walked a teenage girl with a stenciled poster: "How many shopping days until peace?" A few blocks away a giant billboard loomed over Times Square, bearing a Christmas message from Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono. The billboard-one of eleven put up on Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard, London's Shaftesbury Avenue and in several European and Canadian cities-proclaimed: "The war is over ... if you want it. Happy Christmas, John and Yoko...
Destiny's child and Beaver's buddy met in 1964?smack in the poetic middle of Sunset Strip. It was business at first sight. As Raquel recalls it: "He saw me and I saw him, and we put our heads together." The result of this cerebral huddle was the creation?three weeks later?of Curtwel enterprises. Shortly thereafter, things began to happen. Bikini picture in LIFE. Billboard girl on ABC-TV's Hollywood Palace. Twentieth Century-Fox contract. Said Fox Talent Director Owen McLean: "We thought we would build her up slowly; that it would take some time...
...more of Wilder's stuff you see, the more you will be amazed by the man. He has done everything: trial drama ( Witness for the Prosecution ). Hollywood gothic ( Sunset Boulevard ). farce ( Some Like It Hot ), upper-crust romance ( Sabrina ). alcoholic melodrama ( The Lost Weekend ). He has done everything, and yet, he always wants the same thing from his audience-total distrust. Cynicism of the nastiest sort creeps into all of his work. While that doesn't exactly make his films pleasant, it certainly makes them unique in the history of American cinema...