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Hollywood is poison – and few films understand its horrors like Sunset Boulevard

INSIDE FILM: Seventy-five years after its release, Billy Wilder’s melodramatic satire on celebrity culture and faded stardom – starring Gloria Swanson as its grotesque heroine – retains its tragic grandeur, writes Xan Brooks

The Independent UK

Sunset Boulevard review – Hollywood never looked more glorious or more tragic

Gloria Swanson is extraordinary as faded film-star Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s cameo-packed self-referential masterpiece about tinseltown ghosts and delusions

The Guardian - UK

‘Welcome to the Dystopia of America’: Beverly Hills MAGA Karen in a Tesla threatens to get a man ‘deported’ after a road rage meltdown

It was another quiet afternoon in Beverly Hills on Oct. 22, 2025. Then, a MAGA woman in a Tesla turned Sunset Boulevard into a stage for her personal racist meltdown. And it’s the chaos that feels increasingly normal in Trump’s America.

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Nicole Scherzinger on battling her demons, vanity and her critics: ‘I’ve had therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists'

Nicole Scherzinger has gone from pop princess to Tony award-winning stage star. She talks about battling demons, playing the Royal Albert Hall and mastering Scottish humour

Evening Standard

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham appear to tease pre-Fleetwood Mac album reissue with a Sunset Boulevard billboard

If you're a fan, put 19 September in your calendar

MusicRadar

Nicole Scherzinger bows out of Sunset Boulevard

Pop star Nicole Scherzinger has bowed out of Sunset Boulevard following a successful run on Broadway with the singer admitted the show has "has changed me forever".

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Opera Australia treads brutal Boulevard to a $10m loss

A production of the musical Sunset Boulevard helped drag Opera Australia's finances to an operating deficit of $10.6 million in 2024.

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Evita to return to London’s West End with revival directed by Jamie Lloyd

Andrew Lloyd Webber is teaming up with Jamie Lloyd again, following their huge success with Sunset Boulevard

Evening Standard

Discover this romantic Hollywood hideaway for a creative couple

Practising her own interiors motto, ‘good design works anywhere’, Mallery Roberts Morgan transforms a 1960s ranch-style house in the hills above Sunset Boulevard

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Nicole Scherzinger dazzles audiences in Baku as she takes break from Broadway rehearsals

The singer will reprise her role as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard in NYC in September

Evening Standard

Sunset Boulevard review – Sarah Brightman disappoints in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mawkish musical

In her first theatre role in decades, the soprano is simply not up to the task of playing Norma Desmond

The Guardian - AU

Ready for my close up: Sunset Boulevard makes a return

Renowned singer Sarah Brightman makes her return to the theatre with Sunset Boulevard, the first Australian production of the musical in almost 30 years.

AAP

2024’s Olivier awards remain too white, too male – and too safe

A string of seven awards for Sunset Boulevard was hardly radical, and many more daring theatrical successes went unrewarded

The Guardian - UK

My London: Billy Porter on staying at The Langham and taking on Nicole Scherzinger's Sunset Boulevard

Actor and musician Billy Porter gets the champagne treatment at Yohji Yamamoto, dines at House of Koko and wants to step into Nicole Scherzinger’s West End shoes

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Sunset Boulevard wins big at the WhatsOnStage awards

Nicole Scherzinger-led musical bags seven prizes at awards show voted for by theatregoers

Evening Standard

Nicole Scherzinger: Sunset Boulevard ‘truly changed my life’

In Jamie Lloyd’s production of the 1993 musical, Scherzinger plays Norma Desmond, a delusional silent movie star discarded by Hollywood amid the arrival of talking pictures

Evening Standard

The best autumn theatre to book from Andrew Scott as Vanya to Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard

Do you want to see a musical, new writing, Shakespeare or, er, Southgate? Autumn’s packed stage calendar has something for everyone

Tribune News Service

SAG strikers lament lack of A-listers on picket line: ‘Where the f— is Ben Affleck?’

LOS ANGELES — By 9 a.m. Tuesday, hundreds of SAG-AFTRA and WGA members and supporters had gathered outside the Netflix studios on Sunset Boulevard in the heart of Hollywood. Armed with signs, water and sunscreen, the picketers represent the 160,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild who went on strike…

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The Guardian - US

Searching for Silver Lake: the radical neighborhood that changed gay America

For decades, these Los Angeles streets have played host to key events in LGBTQ+ history. But gentrification has transformed the area

Evening Standard

Nicole Scherzinger to star in new West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard

The new show will be directed by Jamie Lloyd and play at the Savoy Theatre for 16 weeks from September

The Guardian - UK

Streaming: Babylon and the best films about Hollywood

Damien Chazelle’s three-hour ode to Tinseltown debauchery joins classic films about Hollywood from Sunset Boulevard to Barton Fink and Adaptation

Louder

Hugh Syme exhibition to open in Los Angeles in June

Celebrated Rush and Dream Theater cover artist Hugh Syme to have exhibition of his work at Musichead Gallery on Sunset Boulevard

Los Angeles Times

Your favorite artist’s favorite artist: How SZA went from cult star to pop superstar

LOS ANGELES — As the sun sets on a balmy February afternoon in West Hollywood, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter known as SZA has just wrapped her second photo shoot of the day, inside a historic three-story house off Sunset Boulevard. She wears rainbow chakra beads around her neck and rhinestones on…

Daily Record

Ex-prostitute Divine Brown hits new low 27 years after performing £45 sex act on Hugh Grant

The 53-year-old is now a long way from Sunset Boulevard in LA, where she got caught carrying out a 'trick' on the Notting Hill actor in 1995.

Los Angeles Times

Robin Abcarian: A naked JLo is hawking a 'booty balm' to make your rear resemble hers. Good luck with that

Perhaps like me, you were a little surprised to open the newspaper Sunday morning and find a full-page ad featuring a stark-naked Jennifer Lopez. If you were on Sunset Boulevard, you might have seen the same image on a 60-foot billboard.

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