Little Gold Men Essentials: Sunset Boulevard
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Inside the making of the 1950 classic with Gloria Swanson’s close confidante, Wayne Lawson. Plus a look at how the Emmys and Tonys delays affect the awards seasons to come.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and Oscar goes to. and I can't deny the fact that you like me right now. |
| 0:17.0 | You like me. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm the King of the World. |
| 0:21.0 | There's a mistake. |
| 0:22.0 | Moonlight, you guys won best picture. I'm Katie Rich the deputy editor of Vanity Fair.com and I'm here with our digital |
| 0:39.8 | director Mike Hogan. Hey Katie. Our senior writer Joanna Robinson. |
| 0:44.0 | Hi Katie. |
| 0:45.0 | And our chief critic Richard Lawson. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello. |
| 0:47.0 | We remain in our quarantine monkeys. |
| 0:49.0 | There remain no more movies in theaters, but we have a really good show. We are kicking off our Little |
| 0:54.4 | Golden Men Essentials series with Sunset Boulevard as per overwhelming vote |
| 0:58.5 | from our Twitter followers, and that includes a special interview with Wayne Lawson, who Mike refers to as his mentor. |
| 1:06.0 | He was a longtime editor at Vanity Fair and worked very closely with Gloria Swanson and has some pretty incredible old Hollywood stories to share. But first we want to |
| 1:15.2 | catch up a little bit on the news that's going on in the world. Everything in |
| 1:18.3 | Hollywood is pretty much shut down but there have been some expected delays on |
| 1:21.6 | some upcoming award seasons. |
| 1:23.4 | I think the most noteworthy is that the Tonies have been postponed indefinitely, given that |
| 1:28.0 | Broadway is still shut down and it is really unclear when it can reopen. |
| 1:31.7 | That was kind of the only decision they could have made. But |
| 1:34.4 | Richard is someone who sees a lot of theater. I imagine you're as bummed out about this as I am. |
| 1:38.0 | Well, yeah, because you had kind of dispatched me to see a lot of the big spring stuff so I had gone and |
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