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[[Billy Wilder]]'s classic [[Film Noir]] from 1950, ''Sunset Boulevard'' is a dark take on the film industry and the fleeting nature of fame, to this day one of Hollywood's most scorching (and yet wistful) [[Horrible Hollywood|depictions of itself]], and indeed one of the greatest films of all time. (In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked it as the twelfth best American film of the twentieth century.) While the characters are deeply flawed, some of them [[Moral Event Horizon|beyond any redemption]], the film still presents them each as complex, sympathetic, and even endearing.
In 1993, it was [[Sunset Boulevard (musical)|adapted]] into [[The Musical|a musical]] by [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]. The Broadway premiere starred [[Glenn Close]], and
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