Sunday, February 22, 2009

Ouch!

I just watched Sunset Boulevard.

Gloria Swanson was 51 when she played the pathetic/aging/has been silent picture actress, Norma Desmond, who dreams of her comeback.

There is one line at the end that was particularly disturbing to me.

It was when William Holden's character says:
There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

Ouch, that hurt.

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