TY - BOOK AU - Wilder,Billy AU - Meyers,Jeffrey TI - Sunset Boulevard SN - 9780520922839 AV - PN1997 U1 - 791.43/72 21 PY - 1999/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Sunset Blvd. (Motion picture) KW - fast KW - PERFORMING ARTS KW - Film & Video KW - History & Criticism KW - bisacsh KW - General KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover; SUNSET BOULEVARD; Title; Copyright; INTRODUCTlON TO SUNSET BOULEVARD; SUNSET BOULEVARD; SUNSET BOULEVARD: SEQUENCE "A"; SUNSET BOULEVARD: SEQUENCE "B"; SUNSET BOULEVARD: SEQUENCE "C"; SUNSET BOULEVARD: SEQUENCE "D"; SUNSET BOULEVARD: SEQUENCE "E." N2 - Sunset Boulevard (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay with the very able Charles Brackett, and with D.M. Marshman Jr., who later joined the team. Together they created a film both allusive and literate, with Hollywood's worst excesses and neuroses laid out for all to see. After viewing Sunset Boulevard Louis B. Mayer exclaimed: "We should throw this Wilder out of town!" The New York Times, however, gave the movie a rave review, praising "that rare blen UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=457078 ER -