SYBIL'S CINEMA! The "WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?" series... SUNSET BOULEVARD. (1950)…
/I've proposed some epilogues to Hollywood to be shown after the credits roll on some well-loved films. Perfect for those stories and characters you just want to go on and on and on…
SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950): Shortly after her arrest for the murder of the unfortunate script-writer-gigolo Joe Gillis, Norma Desmond is vilified by the public as a self-indulgent and ridiculous has-been tossed aside by the studio system that had worshipped her 30 years earlier. Sentenced to a mental institution for being "emotionally inconvenienced during the commission of a Class A felony", she is treated with extensive electro-convulsive therapy along with insulin-shock, ice baths, and prolonged sitting in front of a mirror while being forced to make funny faces and lip-synching to Gene Autry records. Finally she is released on good behavior, and she retires to Malibu where she opens a health-food and “yoga-with-yogurt” spa. She changes her name to Normaste Desmond... and lives to be 98. Max continued to work for her... at the juice bar...
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