See other (s)Elections Articles
Title: HILLARY IS "THE NORMA DESMOND OF AMERICAN POLITICS"
Source:
Balloon Juice Forum
URL Source: http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=10205#comments
Published: Apr 24, 2008
Author: "Chris"
Post Date: 2008-04-24 15:55:27 by aristeides
Keywords: None
Views: 145
Comments: 7
Chris Says: Hillary Clinton is only going to get more awesomely insane as the years drag on. Surrounded by sycophants and veiled in self-delusion and contempt for the actual voters, she’s quickly becoming the Norma Desmond of American Politics. We’re going to find Howard Wolfson floating face down in the Clinton library reflecting pool at this rate. “I am still big! It’s the caucuses that got small!” April 24th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: aristeides (#0)
'Individuals should not take responsibility for their own defense. That’s what the police are for. ... If I oppose individuals defending themselves, I have to support police defending them. I have to support a police state.”' Alan Dershowitz
"They took the idols and smashed them! And who've we got now? Some nobodies!"
Chris Says: Hey, Rick says: Balloon juice is for clowns like Obama.
God is always good!
This is from Wikipedia. Not everyone at 4um is old enough to remember these old movies!! Norma Desmond is a main character and femme fatale in Billy Wilder's film Sunset Boulevard. An aging former star of silent movies, Desmond is recluse in her Gothic Beverly Hills mansion, off Sunset Boulevard nursing dreams of returning to stardom while her grip on reality grows ever more tenuous over the years. Her one companion is Max (Erich von Stroheim), her butler, former director and we later learn, first husband, who serves as her protector and shields from the outside world. Because he is still in love with her, he tells her she is still a star, and cuts her off from the news media (television, newspapers, etc) to keep her from realizing that she has been completely forgotten by her beloved public. One day, a young, unemployed screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) arrives at Desmond's after being chased by two repo men after his 1946 Plymouth, with a flat tire. He parks the car inside the garage of the mansion when he is summoned by Norma to the front door. She confuses him for an undertaker for her just deceased pet monkey. Norma finds out that Joe Gillis is in fact a writer and asks him to take a look at a manuscript she has been working for a while. It is the story of Salome, and she plans to star in it, though she is way past her prime. Joe quickly sees a chance to milk money out of the delusional star; he promises to fix her a script for a star vehicle, and Norma agrees as she wants to send the manuscript to Paramount Pictures' famed director Cecil B. DeMille, with whom Desmond once worked. Desmond is elated; she sees in Gillis the chance to regain her youthful promise, and sets him up in style, buying his clothes and paying all his expenses. Max sees through Gillis immediately, but puts up with the charade because it makes his beloved "madame" happy. As time passes, however, Desmond becomes increasingly unstable when it becomes clear that there is no hit movie for her in the works, and increasingly jealous of and dependent upon Gillis. She professes her love for him at a New Year's Eve party, but he rejects her and leaves. He attends another party, where he first flirts with screen writer Betty (Nancy Olson) and makes plans to move out of Norma's mansion. Norma makes a suicide attempt, and when Joe returns to comfort her, she seduces him. Meanwhile, DeMille's office calls Max and asks if Desmond can meet with her old director so he can use her vintage car in a film; Max lies to her and tells her DeMille wants to work with her again, and DeMille himself takes pity on her and tells her what she wants to hear. Gillis begins writing a screenplay with Betty in secret, and Betty tells him she has fallen in love with him. When he hears Norma having a phone conversation with Betty, in an attempt to scare her away, he invites Betty to the mansion and confesses the situation, euphemistically "a older woman who's well-to-do" and a "young man who's not doing too well." After driving away Betty, Gillis tells Norma he's leaving for good. Desmond snaps and shoots him to death, leaving his body floating in her pool and going into shock. When the police arrive, she thinks they are merely her adoring fans and the production crew for her movie. Elegantly striding toward a news camera, she utters the iconic line, "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie
Hillary's appearance varies quite a bit. I thought she had "people" to keep that from happening.
'Individuals should not take responsibility for their own defense. That’s what the police are for. ... If I oppose individuals defending themselves, I have to support police defending them. I have to support a police state.”' Alan Dershowitz
Great movie. Gloria Swanson and Erich von Stroheim are outstanding.
even if he was a fake "von", he was fun to watch
'Individuals should not take responsibility for their own defense. That’s what the police are for. ... If I oppose individuals defending themselves, I have to support police defending them. I have to support a police state.”' Alan Dershowitz
#2. To: aristeides (#0)
“I am still big! It’s the caucuses that got small!”
I've already said too much.
#3. To: aristeides (#0)
Balloon Juice Forum
#4. To: MUDDOG, aristeides, Robin (#2)
#5. To: Horse (#4)
"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
#6. To: Horse (#4)
I've already said too much.
#7. To: MUDDOG (#6)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_Stroheim
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest