“The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.” PeopleWholeFeelingsAgeStarsTakenAirEffectsBuildingHollywoodTownsCrowdsTricksGhostFakeSunsetDisappointedArtificialPatheticTornadoesBoulevardObsolescenceSumptuousGhost Town Book:Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard Source: Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard
“I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.” WatchesHollywoodAbsolutesIllAwfulSunsetFavouriteHollywood MoviesBoulevardGloriaOld HollywoodSunset Boulevard Author:Amanda Donohoe
“You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.” KnowsWellsLittlesSaidMotherNamesViewsKnow HowOne DayHollywoodHillsSunsetValleysVansMamaVisitingJewish MotherHollywood Hills Author:Joey Bishop
“I've always been a bit repelled by "Sunset Boulevard", which is wrong about almost everything it touches, whether it's fame, Hollywood, screenwriters, or old ladies. Sunset Boulevard would only make sense to me if it was about John Gilbert and the pool boy.” IfsBitsBoysFameHollywoodMake SenseSunsetPoolScreenwritersOld LadyBoulevardSunset Boulevard Author:William Monahan
“Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.” MadeHollywoodSunsetAugustBoulevardSunset Boulevard Author:Gloria Swanson
“The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.” MadeStoriesHomeBeautifulForgetBehindsSunSkyColorHollywoodUglyBrilliantSettingSettingsSuitsDeceptionSunsetBurnedOrangeForget ItHueBathingSurferFreewaysBathing SuitsSmogPretty Picture Book:The Black Echo Source: The Black Echo