Tag: Norma Desmond
The Substance Joins The Ranks of Death Becomes Her With Regard to the Lengths Women Feel They Need to Go In Order to Stay Young
As far as movies about female aging go, Death Becomes Her has long been the gold standard (as Sabrina Carpenter recently wanted to remind in [Read More…]
Death Becomes Her: The Ultimate Female Aging Commentary
In the early 90s, Hollywood was becoming more self-aware of its own ageism. Perhaps in a manner not seen since Billy Wilder’s groundbreaking 1950 film, [Read More…]
Martha Stewart’s Sports Illustrated Cover Is A Landmark Moment…But Also Presents a Double Standard in Terms of Praising a “Correct” Way for Women to Be Embraced As “Sexy” at Any Age
There are “kinds” of women who get lauded for doing the same things that other women have already been doing for quite some time. Martha [Read More…]
The Star: Like Sunset Boulevard Had Norma Desmond Been Castrated By Financial Ruin
Like the cinematic, L.A.-oriented songs of Lana Del Rey alluding to portents of some cataclysmic fall (“Nobody warns you before the fall”), all of 1952’s [Read More…]
Annette Bening as Gloria Grahame Keeps a Looser Rein on Her Boy Toy Than Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond
What’s worse than being an aging woman? An aging woman who used to be lusted after by the masses as a film star. While this [Read More…]
