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Mark Harris's "Pictures at a Revolution" is a fun book that examines the five Best Picture Oscar nominees in 1967, and one of them was "Dr. Dolittle." the Harrison stories were actually shocking, and very little shocks me about show business.

and since we're on the "Sunset Boulevard" thing, I once passed a couple on Madison Avenue in the '70s. one of them was a pleasant gray-haired man. his companion appeared to be a half-size version of Gloria Swanson who was, I realized after half a second, the Real Deal. my mouth dropped open and I stared. she gave me a very Norma Desmond look back, probably because she was happy to have been noticed. if she was 4'10" I'd be surprised. who knew?

the funny thing is that when she made "Sunset Boulevard," she was barely fifty. youthful, these days.

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