“The stars are ageless, aren't they?” Norma Desmond whispers in one of the many “Sunset Boulevard” scenes that will make you shudder.
“Great stars have great pride,” she says elsewhere in the flick.
One of Hollywood's all-time great movies. The faded silent-film star who dreams of returning to the silver screen.
Now playing Gloria Swanson's part, Carmelo Anthony. The faded star cruising down Sunset Boulevard, refusing to accept reality. Refusing to acknowledge that the march of time is as relentless as ocean waves. Here they come. And they will not be stopped.
Yet there was Carmelo on Saturday, saying in his exit news conference that, “I think everybody knows that I've sacrificed kind of damned near everything .