More than seventy years after its initial release, Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard is justly remembered as a stone-cold classic. It’s vision of the seamier side of Hollywood has become definitive in many ways, from the way has-been stars are frequently compared to its doomed heroine Norma Desmond to the way people who haven’t seen a frame of it still know the immortal closing line, “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” The film’s legacy has only been buttressed by the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical […]