I love talking about movies but Ive never been able to organize movie-night get-togethers So this is the next best thing On Tuesdays Im going to spotlight a DVD and suggest some virtual-discussion startersTwo of the most anticipated shows of the Fall TV season 30 Rock and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip are behind-the-scene shows about the inner workings of television The mixed reviews accorded both got me thinking about behind-the-scenes movies about movie making which have a similarly inconsistent track record And that got me thinking about Sunset Blvd 1950 an acid-tipped elegy for casualties of the boulevard of broken dreams Not to mention a font of lines that have kept generations of drag queens in material including I am big Its the pictures that got small and All right Mr DeMille Im ready for my close upConventional wisdom is that the only people who care about the machinery behind popular entertainment are the people who make it and theres some tru
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