And she says: "I am big. It's the pictures that got small."  Fast-forward to today and to a bitter controversy unfolding in the movie industry. The major studios want to make some feature films available for home viewing much sooner than the customary delay of four months or so. They want to digitally deliver, at a premium price, movies that may still be in theaters to home television sets two months after the movies open.  Movie-theater operators are furious. They see this as being financially disastrous. They worry that if people know they can see top-tier movies with A-list stars in their homes so soon after the movies are released, they won't bother going to the theaters. Prominent directors, including James Cameron, Michael Bay and Peter Jackson, have weighed in on the side of the theater owners.  In April they signed a letter to support a system "that encourages movie lovers to see films in the optimum, and most profitable, exhibition arena: the movie theaters of America."  The fight between the studios and the theater operators is, at its core, about money. But for the rest of us, there may be an unintended consequence. The very sense of what it means to be a movie star could be on the verge of being forever altered.  A movie star is unlike any other kind of celebrity. Movie stars have long been the biggest stars in the world; few actors or actresses, given the choice, elect to work in television if they have the stuff to be a leading man or leading lady in the movies. Being a movie star is the peak of the mountain.  Much of this derives from the magnitude of the image on the movie-theater screen. At the movies, the stars we watch are, literally, larger than life. On a television screen, even the sizable ones, the actors are smaller than life -- smaller than us.
It is one of the most famous exchanges of dialogue in the history of movies.And, in a way few people foresaw, it is becoming literal.The movie was 1950's "Sunset Boulevard," directed by Billy