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Sunday, April 14, 2002
DAILY NEWS
Pages
CLOSE-UP
SUNSET BOULEVARD
Show time Magazine page, all; 2
Close-Up on Sunset
Boulevard: Billy Wilder,
Norma Desmond, and the
Dark Hollywood Dream
by Sam Staggs (St.
Martin's Press, $24.95).
Gloria Swanson's final
closeup as faded silent-
movie star Norma
Desmond is one of the
indelible moments in film. Now, stories
about Swanson and other key players
involved with the Hollywood gem are
recounted in detail. It's all here: director
Billy Wilder's high-octane relationship with
co-writer Charles Brackett, co-star William
Holden's troubled marriage and penchant
for the bottle, Erich von Stroheim's turmoil.
Staggs, who also wrote "All About 'All
About Eve," delivers the dish.
PAPERBOY: Confessions of a Future
Engineer by Henry Petroski (Knopf, $25).
Science and engineering writer Petroski
recalls his near-perfect childhood in
Cambria Heights, Queens, and the Long
Island neswpaper delivery route that taught
him about life. Now a professor of civil
engineering and history at Duke, his
memoir looks at the early evolution of his
mechanically inclined mind, illustrated by
his boyhood discovery of
PAPERBOY how to fold and throw
BENEI PETROSES
papers from a speeding
bicycle. As in his nine
previous books (including
"The Evolution of Useful
Things"), Petroski looks
at a seemingly simple
idea and passionately
culls the complexities.

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DISPLAY CASE
Charlton Heston donated many of the items associated with his
Tole as Moses in "The Ten Commandments" to the UCLA Theater
Arts Library.
House Cleaning, Hollywood Style
One of the latest trends in
Hollywood is stars donating
their personal film memora-
bilia to public institutions.
Two universities recently ac-
quired personal goods be-
longing to Charlton Heston
and the late Gloria Swanson.
Before her death in April,
Gloria Swanson turned over
her collection, numbering
100.000 personal belongings,
to the Humanities Research
Center at the University of
Texas. "I never throw any-
thing out," Swanson wrote
in her autobiography, Swan-
son on Swanson (1980). And so
archivist Raymond W. Daum
has found out. Daum recent-
ly completed sorting the 78
boxes and four file cabinets
of material collected by the
screen star since 1913.
Among others, it includes
correspondence with William
Faulkner, Mary Pickford, and
Joseph Kennedy. There is
one stipulation in the gift:
the Kennedy correspondence
must remain sealed until the
year 2000.
Among the movie memo-
rabilia, which will be on dis-
play at the Austin campus
beginning this year, are ex-
tensive files covering every
aspect of her sprawling inde-
pendent production, "Queen
Kelly" (1928), as well as
holdings from "Beyond the
Rocks" (which she made
with Rudolph Valentino in
1921), and several script ver-
sions of "Sunset Boulevard"
(1950).
Charlton Heston also
made news recently by do-
nating his personal archives
to the UCLA Theater Arts
Library. Included in his col-
lection were scripts, scrap-
books, photographs, posters
and awards. His "Best Ac-
tor" Oscar received for his
role in "Ben Hur," the
wooden staff used to part
the Red Sea in "The Ten
Commandments," and the
sword from "El Cid," were
among items given to the
college.
In a postscript, Opal
Webb, the widow of the late
Jack Webb, has given the
Los Angeles Police Depart-
ment hundreds of badges,
plaques, guns and other me-
mentoes associated with
Webb's longtime role as Sgt.
Joe Friday in the "Dragnet"
television series. A police
spokesman said that much
of the material will be dis-
played in a hallway dedi-
cated to Webb. Webb died of
a heart attack last December
at the age of 62.
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Fax
Burgess Collectors Go Fox Hunting
It sold for $3 in 1976 and
today fetches $225.
A cup plate picturing
Thornton Burgess' famous
storybook character, Reddy
Fox, has, in less than seven
years, increased in value 75
times. First issued by the
Thornton W. Burgess Society
in a production run number-
ing 5914 plates back in '76,
the plate was discontinued a
year later. The current $225
going price for the plate is
largely a result of the desire
by serious Burgess collectors
to complete the society's on-
going commemorative cup
plate series.
According to Dorothy
Couet, of the Pairpoint Glass
Association (North 2nd St.,
COLLECTIBLES ILLUSTRATED MAY/JUNE 1983
New Bedford, MA), the
Thornton W. Burgess Society
first commissioned the Pair-
point Glass Works of Saga-
more, Massachusetts, to pro-
duce a small series of
storybook plates in 1975 to
help raise much needed
funds for the society's nature
center at Sandwich, Massa-
chusetts, and the educational
Reday