"On Sunset Boulevard" is a book about "The Life and Times of" this famous film director
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On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder by Ed Sikov ...  On Sunset Boulevard has 81 ratings and 10 reviews. Daniel ... 76th out of 94 books  5 voters ... Great informative bio of one of Hollywood's greatest directors. ... His life is as interesting as any of his movie creations and Ed Sikov has done a...
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On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder: Ed Sikov ...  Editorial Reviews. From Publishers Weekly. German-born Billy Wilder (b. 1906) is one of the ... The book's film criticism works best as a tool for gleaning Wilder's sensibility from .... In the mid 1980s, with his best films well behind him, pushing eighty, the famous and, some might say, notorious movie director Billy Wilder was...
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Getting Under His Skin - WSJ  Oct 30, 2015 ... Timed to the centenary, two volumes have just been added to the buckling library shelves. ... different biographical treatmentsmuch less nearly 1,700 pages of a ... career eclipse, Ava Gardner, movie stardom, Rat Pack shenanigans, ... of a mobbed-up crooner many thought was based on Sinatra: Choke.
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Movie Review - - A PLACE IN THE SUN - NYTimes.com  A PLACE IN THE SUN. By A. H. Weiler. Published: August 29, 1951 ... screen edition of Theodore Dreiser's monumental novel, An American Tragedy, which was...
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Sunset Boulevard (film) - Wikipedia  Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett. It was named after the boulevard that runs through Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, California. The film stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenwriter, .... The character of Norma Desmond mirrors aspects of the twilight years of...
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Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino (Emily W ...  Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino (By Emily W. Leider)From the ... From his early days as a taxi dancer in New York City to his near apotheosis as the ultimate Hollywood heartthrob, Rudolph Valentino (often to his ... tragic lifethe first fully documented biography of the starEmily W. Leider looks at the...
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Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and ...  Editorial Reviews. Review. "[This] is that big, sad, funny, incisive, revelatory, gossipy, ... No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. ... like Sir Lawrence Olivier asking him if it was OK to rearrange a few words of ... His two main rules of Hollywood are: NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING and...
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Vincent Canby, Prolific Film and Theater Critic for The Times, Is ...  Oct 16, 2000 ... He was 76 and lived in New York. ... As senior film critic for The Times from 1969 to 1993 (he began reviewing films for the paper ... Mr. Canby's film work -- thousands of articles and essays that made up the bulk of his criticism...
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Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino: Emily W ...  Editorial Reviews. From Publishers Weekly. Leider exhaustively details the life of one ... From his early days as a taxi dancer in New York City to his near apotheosis as the ultimate Hollywood heartthrob, Rudolph Valentino (often to his distress) ... tragic lifethe first fully documented biography of the starEmily W. Leider...
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The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, by Kenneth Silverman (Harper ...  The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, by Kenneth Silverman (Harper & Row) ... Finalists. Nominated as finalists in Biography or Autobiography in 1985:...