Good Evening!
Back from "Sunset Boulevard"...
It was quite the evening at Chelsea Clearview Cinemas (Where Dreams Come True). There was a nice size crowd, and Hedda was in rare form tonight too. And she had a heckler of sorts in the audience. Made for a very lively pre-show. And the about five or ten minutes into the movie, the movie stopped and the houselights came up... Hmm... Then a couple of minutes later the houselights went back down and the movie started back up.
It was my first time seeing the movie all the way through in one sitting. I've usually just caught it on TV in snippets up until now. It really is a true classic. -And seeing it in a movie theatre filled with predominantly gay... I mean, predominantly filled with gay men added that extra special touch to the proceedings.
It was also interesting that they were showing it via an actual reel and not a DVD - which they now have the capability to do. Yes, there were specks and scratches, but just seeing the movie on the big screen more than compensated for those "artifacts".
-And I never realized that William Holden was such a hunk. The very audible reaction in the theater when he came out of the pool was priceless!
