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The huge Hollywood sign that looms above Los Angeles, Tinseltown's most noted icon turned 92 in 2015. Built in 1923, the billboard has become the symbol of the movie industry. A struggling actress, Peg Entwistle, committed suicide in 1932 by throwing herself from the top of the letter H. The letters r 50 feet tall+30 feet wide. Inte- restingly, it was originally an advertise- ment 4 a property company called Hollywoodland. Beverly Hills
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HollywoodBeverly Hills is surrounded by West Hollywood to the east with the rest surrounded by the city of Los Angeles. It's THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS SUBURB with a population of 32,700. It's located just southwest of the Hollywood Hills where the Hollywood sign is. about Hollywood "What a grand thing to be loved; "what a grander thing still to love. "The heart becomes heroic through "passion. It is no longer composed "of anything, but what is pure; it no "longer rests upon anything, but "what is elevated and great." "- Victor HugoFrench playwright of "Les Miserables" "It's a dry-ice town, baby. Colder than cold." "Robert EvansParamount movie producer commenting on Hollywood The 3 Stooges www.threestooges.com Did u no? The Three Stoogesappeared in more movies than any other comedy team in U.S. film history. Did u no? The Three Stooges, "Los Tres Chiflados", have always been very popular in Mexico. www.hollywoodreporter.com "In two words: im-possible." - Samuel Goldwynmovie mogul  movies | TV shows acting schools | famous directors www.starseeker.com movie news | trailers | reviews | exclusives www.movieweb.com ~~~ Did u no? In Hollywood, parts get improved on as well as names. Who was Marion Michael Morrison? Yepper, he was alias THE BIG GUN, John Wayne. tickets 2 movies in theatres, Broadway shows, London theatre www.hollywood.com Did u no? Billy Wilder's 1950 film, Sunset Boulevard, is considered by many 2b the best film ever made about Hollywood staring Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, Erich von Stroheim as her man, +William Holden as the ill-fated Joe Gillis, who starts+ends the flick face down in Norma's pool. Hollywood Stock Exchange the entertainment market www.hsx.com Hollywood news
Jennifer Aniston didN'T sleep with Brad Pitt the first nine months they dated. When asked about it, Aniston said she wanted to, but the line was too long." - Conan O'Brien Entertainment Weekly's www.ew.com access hollywood www.accesshollywood.com eTalk (entertainment news) www.ctv.ca Hollywood gossip Did u no? Hollywoods' first major celebrity wedding took place on March 27 1920 between Douglas Fairbanks (Born Douglas Elton Ulman, known 4 his role in The Mark of Zorro, Robin Hood, and The Three Musketeers.) + Mary Pickford (Born Gladys Mary Smith, known 4 her role in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Pollyanna, Poor Little Rich Girl+Coquette. They co-starred in The Taming of the Shrew. Interestingly, they called their place: Pickfair. celebrity gossip | entertainment news www.thehollywoodgossip.com "I used to be Snow White - but I drifted." - Mae West The Smoking Gun - celebrity gossip www.thesmokinggun.com celebrity
deaths Hollywood paraphernalia Hollywood memorabilia www.entertainmentearth.com famous movie lines Did u no? b4 becoming famous in the enter- tainment industry, they worked as truck drivers: Stephen J. Cannell, Robert Conrad, K.D. Lang, Gregory Peck, Sidney Poitier, Desi Arnaz+ Elvis Presley. (James Cameron worked both as a truck driver+a school bus driver b4 becoming a successful film director of The Terminator+The Titanic.) "I'll tell you what, you can get a good "look at a t-bone by sticking your head "up a bull's ass, but I'd rather take the "butcher's word for it." "- Chris FarleymovieTommy Boy Did u no? These r considered 2b the TOP 10 movie lines: 1. "I'll be back." 1. - The Terminator (1984) 2. "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." 1. - Gone With the Wind (1939) 3. "Get busy living or get busy dying." 1. - The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 4. "Hasta la vista, baby." 1. - Terminator II: Judgment Day (1991) 5. "Well, nobody's perfect!" 1. - Some Like it Hot (1959) 6. "Dave, this conversation can serve 1. no purpose anymore. Goodbye." 1. - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 7. "Goodbye, Mr. Bond." 1. - Goldfinger (1964) 8. "I've seen things you wouldN'T believe. 1. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of 1. Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the 1. dark near the Tanhauser gate. All those 1. moments will be lost in time like tears 1. in the rain... Time to die." 1. - Bladerunner (1982) 9. "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" 1. - White Heat (1949) 10. "Forget about it!" 1. - Donnie Brasco (1997)
Did u no? The exuberant film dance team of Fred Astaire+Ginger Rogers was on the Box Office TOP 10 List 3 times. Astaire+Rogers' films r considered 2b among the brightest musicals that MGM released during the 1930s. This duo made 10 films 2 which many critics feel r the best musicals Hollywood has ever pro- duced: Top Hat+Swing Time. "Miracles happen to those who believe in them." "- Bernard BerensonArt Historian humor When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye. :-D Did u no? Only 3 Academy Awards films have swept all 5 categories in Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Actor+Actress, +Best Writing: 1934's It Happened One Night, 1975's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,+1991's The Silence of the Lambs. Academy of Motion Picture Arts+Sciences www.oscars.org "I believe in censorship. "After all, I made a fortune "out of it." "- Mae West Did u no? At 1 time if you worked on a film set, u were called a movie + the film itself was called a motion picture. Motion Picture Association of America www.mpaa.org "Fall absolutely madly in love with "anybody. If it's the wrong person, "all the better; then you'll have some- "thing to make a movie about." "- Allison AndersHollywood director American Film Institute www.afi.com Did u no? On July 12, 1912 the 1st foreign film was screened in the United States. It was a French film whose English title was Queen Elizabeth. Its French title was Les Amours de la reine Elisabeth which translated means the lovers of Queen Elizabeth. The abbreviated title was considered more appropriate 4 American audiences by the film dis- tributers. The National Film Board of Canada English|French www.nfb.ca Walt
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COMMENT It is important to note that there was NO VIOLENCE in his light- hearted, poliyanna movies suited to family viewing. Did u no? In 1918, Walt Disney at 16 years of age lied about his age 2 get in2 the Red Cross Ambulance Corps whose age requirement was 17: he drove an ambulance, chauffeured officers, played poker, started smoking+wrote letters. Did u no? Walt Disney's dad was an Anglo-Irish Canadian from Bluevale, 50 kilometres east of the Lake Huron community of Goderich, Ontario. He left Canada at the age of 20 when his father bought a farm in Kansas. Disney movies movies.disney.com the movie industry COMMENT What best represented the health of the U.S. movie industry then the intergalactic Star Wars series of movies designed to appeal to THE AMERICAN EGO + its belief in ALIEN LIFE + its penchant for WAR. (Ha! Ha!) I have to say ALL THIS VIOLENCE + belief in imaginary beings in outerspace, the so-called aliens, disturbing. VIOLENCE is very much part of THE AMERICAN FABRIC with 2 mass murders or more per day. THE AMERICANS ARE ADDICTED TO VIOLENCE: THE ONLY REMEDY is for the U.S. Gov't to outlaw ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE in the entertainment industry including game videos. It's gotten to the point that AMERICANS ARE AFRAID TO GO OUT AT NIGHT FEARING FOR THEIR SAFETY. Then, there's the LYING which starts in The While House which was underscored by the movie LIiar Liar. Leading up to the Star Wars movies were several decades of U.S. war movies. There r, even, "fantasy" Starwars movie versions online in YouTube format. - Order 66 Theory - Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order Starwars www.starwars.com ~~~ ~~~ the Westerns COMMENT The Mexican cowboy movies, "películas And in the realm of country music ~~~ adventure movies
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