MORE MONKEY MADNESS
Oh, this has to stop happening. Like when I took an evening off from praying for someone who seems never to get enough Aves and entrusted her to Saint Therese and watched The Chase which to my amazement has one key scene of a washer-woman who has an altar to the Little Flower . This weekend, I watched Sunset Boulevard , a movie I’ve avoided for some time because no word of a lie, I’ve known a few people in my life who are uncannily similar to the characters. It concerns Joe, a struggling screenwriter (who reminded me of my younger self) and a jaded movie star who had been one of the greatest silent movie actresses of her day. I wasn't going to think of the rights and wrongs of a pet monkey for a long time... Gloria Swanson plays Norma Desmond, the faded, aging and drunk-on-delusion movie queen. Her eyelashes are edged in black mascara triangles that make her eyes look like a shark’s gaping maw. Norma welcomes the lost writer, Joe Gillis into her home, thinking he is the undertak...
