LINKS: Pajiba on Double Indemnity and Sunset Blvd., the latter including:
"--Wilder’s men are awfully consistent in their shamelessness--"
So true. And:
"DeMille also plays himself in a pivotal role in Sunset Blvd., waffling between his latent devotion to his one-time star and his reluctance to tie himself down to her. Norma visits DeMille to pitch him on Salome in a scene shot on the sets DeMille was actually using at the time to film Samson and Delilah. So, just to recap: Wilder’s movie had a scene between an aging star and her old director, played by an actual aging star and her actual old director, shot on sets the director was using in real life to make an actual film that had yet to be released. It’s damn near dizzying."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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