"Pictures make me real," she says at one point, like some delusional child star.
Delusional silent-movie star Norma Desmond has "haunted" Glenn Close since she first played her.
In 1995 she impressed Broadway audiences as the delusional former film star Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber's theatrical production of Sunset Boulevard, for which she won another Tony Award for best actress in a musical.
There's only room for one goddess at a time!" As in "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"—in which Bette Davis got the juicier part, as the delusional former vaudeville star, Jane Sarandon initially seems to get the sweeter deal here.
Sticking with Max Hoyland Stephen Lovattt), one of the great Neighbours plots was when Max entered a delusional state of midlife crisis and started imagining himself pulling on a Collingwood guernsey and becoming an AFL star.
After posting and then removing an already-infamous homophobic rant that compared homosexuals to pedophiles amidst a flurry of other delusional claims, Lithuanian underground house star Ten Walls AKA Marijus Adomaitis returned to the scene of the crime, Facebook, to offer the below apology.
As lovers, Lambert (Clinton Faulkner) and Virginia (Heather Massie, a vision of paleness dressed all in white) seem less star-crossed than delusional: each loves the other for what the other wants not to be.
In filming a nineteen-thirties star whose self-delusional status depends on killing a black woman, Aldrich provides a clear-eyed view of classic Hollywood: the artistic glories of that period in cinema aren't merely incidentally racist; in fact, they're defined by racism, defined by their exclusions.
Perhaps it's something from the star's own fantastically delusional "production company", which in the corporate interests of kowtowing to the talent, has been given office space on the studio lot.
Tom Wolfe nailed this euphoric and delusional behavior when he described the stars of Wall Street as Masters of the Universe.
