Review – Sunset Boulevard

Usually I don’t care much one way or another about cameo-studded movies about the decadence of “Hollywood Babylon.” But this classic is so full of odd little touches and intriguing plot twists that it’s possible to forgive the heavy-handed sanctimony and the sometimes-stultifying dialogue. I was especially fond of the scene toward the beginning in which our hero, fleeing from a pair of repo men, happens across aging Hollywood has-been Norma Desmond and her butler conducting a funeral for a dead chimpanzee. Though much of the movie has become a bit cliché, it’s still well worth a look. Worth seeing