Sunset Boulevard
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:30:02
afraid it would remind her
that time had passed.

:30:07
They were silent movies, and Max
would run the projection machine.

:30:12
Just as well.
:30:14
It kept him from giving us
an accompaniment on that organ.

:30:20
She'd sit very close to me,
and she'd smell of tuberoses.

:30:23
Not my favourite perfume,
not by a long shot.

:30:27
Sometimes as we watched,
she'd clutch my arm or my hand,

:30:31
forgetting she was my employer,
:30:34
just becoming a fan, excited about
that actress up there on the screen.

:30:40
I don't have to tell you
who the star was.

:30:44
They were always her pictures.
That's all she wanted to see.

:31:13
Still wonderful, isn't it?
And no dialogue.

:31:18
We didn't need dialogue.
We had faces.

:31:22
There just aren't any faces like
that any more. Maybe one, Garbo.

:31:29
Those idiot producers, those imbeciles!
Haven't they got eyes?

:31:34
Have they forgotten
what a star looks like?

:31:37
I'll be up there again, so help me!
:31:49
Sometimes there'd be
a little bridge game.

:31:53
With a twentieth of a cent a point.
I'd get half her winnings.

:31:57
Once they ran up to 70 cents, which
was about the only cash I ever got.


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