{"id":34022,"date":"2014-04-16T15:03:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T22:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/?p=34022"},"modified":"2020-10-08T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T21:23:12","slug":"the-long-goodbye-on-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/the-long-goodbye-on-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Goodbye on Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between the stars. When I got home I mixed a stiff one and stood by the open window in the living room and sipped it and listened to the groundswell of the traffic on Laurel Canyon Boulevard and looked at the glare of the big angry city hanging over the shoulder of the hills through which the boulevard had been cut. Far off the banshee wail of police or fire sirens rose and fell, never for very long completely silent. Twenty-four hours a day somebody is running, somebody else is trying to catch him. Out there in the night of a thousand crimes people were dying, being maimed, cut by flying glass, crushed against steering wheels or under heavy tires. People were being beaten, robbed, strangled, raped, and murdered. People were hungry, sick; bored, desperate with loneliness or remorse or fear, angry, cruel, feverish, shaken by sobs. A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.” – Philip Marlowe, The Long Goodbye<\/em> (by Raymond Chandler)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between the stars. When I got home I mixed a stiff one and stood by the open window in the living room and sipped it and listened to the groundswell of the traffic on Laurel Canyon Boulevard and looked at the glare of the big angry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[3316],"tags":[2907,1977],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33641,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/stream-it-sunset-boulevard-1950\/","url_meta":{"origin":34022,"position":0},"title":"Stream It!: Sunset Boulevard (1950)","author":"Jandy","date":"February 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"[Showcasing the best and highlighting the newest additions to the various streaming services, including but not limited to Netflix Instant, HuluPlus, Amazon Prime, and Warner Archive Instant.] New on Netflix: Sunset Boulevard A bunch of new stuff hit Netflix at the beginning of the month, as usual, but the immediately\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Film"","block_context":{"text":"Film","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Sunset-Boulevard-feat1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Sunset-Boulevard-feat1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Sunset-Boulevard-feat1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":34902,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/completing-the-filmography-fedora\/","url_meta":{"origin":34022,"position":1},"title":"Completing the Filmography: Fedora","author":"Jandy","date":"February 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In 1950, Billy Wilder made what is probably the definitive film on Hollywood and aging with Sunset Boulevard, but it seems he wasn't quite done with the topic, returning to it in 1978's Fedora, a film about an iconic actress from the 1940s (very Garbo-esque in accent and distancing demeanor)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Film"","block_context":{"text":"Film","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ctf-fedora-feat.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":34778,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/on-midnights-screenplay\/","url_meta":{"origin":34022,"position":2},"title":"On Midnight‘s Screenplay","author":"Jandy","date":"November 28, 2014","format":"quote","excerpt":"\"There's an old story, borne out by production records, about [producer] Arthur Hornblow Jr. deciding to exert his power by handing [Billy] Wilder and [Charles] Brackett's fully polished draft [of the screenplay for 1939's Midnight] to a staff writer named Ken Englund. 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