Rock from the Sun episode "Fifteen Minutes of Dick" (season 2, ep. 23) features a spoof on the film, wherein Sally, suddenly famous, spirals into Norma-esque despair as her celebrity wanes. The early episodes of Desperate Housewives (2004) have numerous allusions to Sunset Boulevard, including the use of a dead person as a narrator, and another character's fondness for Billy Wilder movies. In the movie Hick (2011) Luli (Chloe Grace Mortez) can be found in her room reciting the movie in the mirror. Mortez revealed that she was the one who suggested the quote be implemented. Literature Sunset Boulevard is heavily referenced in The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell. Quotes from the film are used as epigraphs for many chapters; for example, Chapter 11 begins, "No one leaves a star. That's what makes one a star." Plot and themes of the film are directly invoked to point out parallels in the production of The Room. In an interview, Sestero states, "I saw a lot of similarities with my story, especially when Tommy lived in a place that had a pool and wanted to make his own vanity project." Politics In February 2020, President Donald Trump tweeted "So Parasite won Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards" and lamented that movies like Sunset Boulevard aren't made anymore. Trump has cited the film as one of his personal favorites, and he screened it multiple times at the White House Family Theater during his presidency. The press subsequently brought up an analogy between Trump's Mar-a-Lago and Norma Desmond's Sunset Boulevard mansion. Popular music The song "Floating" on the album Outskirts by Canadian country-rock band Blue Rodeo references the movie in its chorus line 'I feel like William Holden floating in a pool.' The album's liner notes explain the connection to the film. The 1996 song Sunset Boulevard by the Spanish songwriter Javier Álvarez includes the verses ("The paper years blind you again / as [they blinded] Norma Desmond in 'Sunset Boulevard'".) References Bibliography Corliss, Richard (1974). Talking Pictures: Screenwriters in the American Cinema, 1927–1973. Overlook Press. Hadleigh, Boze (1996). Bette Davis Speaks. Barricade Books. . Kael, Pauline (1982). 5001 Nights at the Movies. Zenith Books. . Kirgo, Julie (1979). "Sunset Boulevard". In Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward, eds, Film noir: An encyclopedic reference to the American style. Woodstock: Overlook