Sunset Blvd. Is Your New Year’s Sanity Test – OpEd

By Titus Techera*

Will 2023 be one more year of gaudy daydreams and alternate realities, another misguided escape from reality? Or will we wake up before we’re facedown in history’s pool of spoiled lives?

Last New Year’s Eve, I wrote about Billy Wilder’s The Apartment. It’s the best movie on the ambivalence with...