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"What better way to get in the mood for the double-barrelled shotgun blast of Sundance and Slamdance than by entering to win one of five copies of The Deal on DVD. Here’s what the movie is all about: A struggling film producer (William H. Macy) teams up with a beleaguered studio executive (Meg Ryan) who is forced to make a doomed action movie with him in which their mercurial star (LL Cool J) seems determined to finish their careers. When their action hero is kidnapped and the studio abruptly shuts down the movie, the mismatched pair conspire to keep the cameras rolling at the studio’s expense – and reluctantly fall in love in the process. Visit the movie’s official website to find out more and watch the trailer as well as clips from the film. Getting your copy is pretty easy. Since The Deal is all about the inner-machinations of Hollywood, we want to know what your favorite movie set in Hollywood is 1. Bowfinger (
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"This is one of several silent movies that are still interesting to watch. "Male and Female" is an early effort by Cecil B. DeMille, and it stars Gloria Swanson, who was about 20 when it was made. Her co-star is Thomas Meighan, who was 20 years her senior and the bigger star in 1919 when "Male and Female" was made. But adorable Lila Lee steals the show as the scullery maid, Tweeny. Silent movies were very different from talkies. The beginning of the movie introduces the viewers to the cast of characters and tells who plays each role. The introduction is unnecessary by today's standards, and it's very leisurely, reminding us that audiences in 1919 were very unsophisticated (and not just in movies). The title role is Crichton, the family butler to the family of Lord Loam. DeMille has Meighan introduce his character very elegantly, making Crichton admirable from our first view of him (the movie is based on a play called "The Admirable Crichton"). All characterization is done in mime, o ... "
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"Hollywood has been making movies about movies almost as long as they’ve been making movies. But what’s the appeal of a movie about a movie? Assuming there is one; according to Box Office Mojo, a movie about a movie hasn’t grossed significantly over $100 million in twenty years, and that one had the obvious advantage of offering a glimpse into the marriage of a cartoon bombshell and a rabbit. But what is it that makes the legitimately great Hollywood movies––the Sunset Boulevards, the Bad and the Beautifuls, the Players –– legitimately great? Maybe at some point, they were able to convincingly offer the illusion that one had been temporarily invited into an inner sanctum, seen the secret lives of stars, given a lesson in how the sausage is made, but today it’s hard to imagine anyone really believing that a given film has the power to blow the lid off the dream factory. The great Hollywood movies do traffic in the illusion of taking the viewer “inside,” but by layering irony, melodra ... "
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"Hollywood has been making movies about movies almost as long as they’ve been making movies. But what’s the appeal of a movie about a movie? Assuming there is one; according to Box Office Mojo, a movie about a movie hasn’t grossed significantly over $100 million in twenty years, and that one had the obvious advantage of offering a glimpse into the marriage of a cartoon bombshell and a rabbit. But what is it that makes the legitimately great Hollywood movies––the Sunset Boulevards, the Bad and the Beautifuls, the Players –– legitimately great? Maybe at some point, they were able to convincingly offer the illusion that one had been temporarily invited into an inner sanctum, seen the secret lives of stars, given a lesson in how the sausage is made, but today it’s hard to imagine anyone really believing that a given film has the power to blow the lid off the dream factory. The great Hollywood movies do traffic in the illusion of taking the viewer “inside,” but by layering irony, melodra ... "
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"What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pip pin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.a spx Sunset Boulevard is on the following AFI lists:The Original Top 100 (#12)100 Movie Quotes (#7 - Norma Desmond: "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up;" #24 - Norma Desmond: "I am big. It's the pictures that got small.")25 Film Scores (#16)The Revised Top 100 (#16) Sunset Boulevard was next up on the list and, therefore, next up on my Netflix queue (I do love that service). I had never seen this movie and did not really know what to expect, past the infamous "ready for my close-up" line. I didn't realize that it was the concluding line of the movie, and I was a little perturbed by that. Nothing is given away, really, if you've never seen the movie before, but still! It says something for the film, that the last line has become one of those pop culture idioms, bandied about in all sorts of situ ... "
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Sunset Boulevard (1950)
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"Released: August 4, 1950Director: Billy Wilder*****In his introduction to this film on Turner Classic Movies, Robert Oborne says only Billy Wilder could have made this film about a reclusive, former star (Norma Desmond, played by a wonderfully theatrical Gloria Swanson) who falls into a mad delirium over washed up writer Joe Gillis (William Holden). Why could only Wilder, director of Witness for the Prosecution, Some Like It Hot and The Lost Weekend-among others-tackle this subject matter?To put it succienctly, he has the only one in Hollywood with the courage to make this expose on the constant churning over of star and writer. A silent film star, Desmond found her career over when the pictures started to include sound. Sequestered in her mansion with manservant Max (Erich von Stroheim) as her only company, she takes Gillis (who himself is on the run from repo men) in, treating him as a "kept man." As he begins to feel claustrophobic in the house, her jealousy rises over a fri ... "
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Hillary Clinton's Sunset Blvd.
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"As you must know by now, I'm an emphatic supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton. And despite what the mainstream media is saying right now, I still believe that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic Party's nominee and our next president.With that said, I can still appreciate good YouTube videos, even those that poke fun of my girl.Like this one from v-blogger LisaNova, described as "a biting parody of Sunset Blvd starring Hillary Clinton as the faded film star. In her fantasy world, the stairs in Hillary’s home become the stairs in the White House, and an amateur interviewer becomes Anderson Cooper. It’s worth watching for LisaNova’s over-the-top, hammy acting alone."Hillary's Sunset Blvd: The Original Ending Scene:
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Heath Ledger’s Pretend Last Days
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"Esquire has published a piece of “reported fiction” called “The Last Days of Heath Ledger,” in which GOLF Magazine editor (!) Lisa Taddeo, writing in the voice of Ledger from beyond the grave, imagines how the actor spent his final days before overdosing on prescription medication in January. Inspired journalistic risk taking or tasteless garbage? Well, Glenn Kenny won’t honor this “loathsome stunt” with the compliment of a link. Meanwhile, Jeffrey Wells, repeatedly justifying the story as an ancestor to Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, essentially accuses his commenters who find it distasteful of hating: “All bold ideas are tut-tutted by the tut-tutters.” Tut. Tut. I tried to read the story in order to make up my own mind, but I couldn’t get past the third sentence––something about the idea of a writer imagining a dead celebrity talking about how often he masturbated before his accidental death got blocked by my puke filter, I guess. If you are of stronger constitution, you’ll fin ... "
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"Esquire has published a piece of “reported fiction” called “The Last Days of Heath Ledger,” in which GOLF Magazine editor (!) Lisa Taddeo, writing in the voice of Ledger from beyond the grave, imagines how the actor spent his final days before overdosing on prescription medication in January. Inspired journalistic risk taking or tasteless garbage? Well, Glenn Kenny won’t honor this “loathsome stunt” with the compliment of a link. Meanwhile, Jeffrey Wells, repeatedly justifying the story as an ancestor to Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, essentially accuses his commenters who find it distasteful of hating: “All bold ideas are tut-tutted by the tut-tutters.” Tut. Tut. I tried to read the story in order to make up my own mind, but I couldn’t get past the third sentence––something about the idea of a writer imagining a dead celebrity talking about how often he masturbated before his accidental death got blocked by my puke filter, I guess. If you are of stronger constitution, you’ll fin ... "
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