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class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Hollywood_Sign.JPG/220px-Hollywood_Sign.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Hollywood_Sign.JPG/330px-Hollywood_Sign.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Hollywood_Sign.JPG/440px-Hollywood_Sign.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a><figcaption>Its name has come to be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonym" class="extiw" title="w:Metonym">metonym</a> for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_picture_industry" class="extiw" title="w:Motion picture industry">motion picture industry</a> of the United States. - <a href="/wiki/Joan_Crawford" title="Joan Crawford">Joan Crawford</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood" class="extiw" title="w:Hollywood">Hollywood</a></b> is a district in the central region of <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>. It is notable for its place as the home of the <a href="/wiki/Entertainment" title="Entertainment">entertainment</a> <a href="/wiki/Industry" title="Industry">industry</a>, including several of its historic <a href="/w/index.php?title=Studios&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Studios (page does not exist)">studios</a>. Its name has come to be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonym" class="extiw" title="w:Metonym">metonym</a> for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_picture_industry" class="extiw" title="w:Motion picture industry">motion picture industry</a> of the United States. Hollywood is also a highly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnically" class="extiw" title="w:Ethnically">ethnically</a> <a href="/wiki/Diverse" class="mw-redirect" title="Diverse">diverse</a>, densely populated, economically diverse neighborhood and retail <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_district" class="extiw" title="w:Business district">business district</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2></div> <ul><li>Hollywood groupthink is anathema to the nature of <a href="/wiki/Sci_fi" class="mw-redirect" title="Sci fi">sci fi</a>, which is a cerebral <a href="/wiki/Philosophical" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophical">philosophical</a> <a href="/wiki/Exploration" title="Exploration">exploration</a> of <a href="/wiki/Humankind" class="mw-redirect" title="Humankind">humankind</a> and puncturing the limits of our <a href="/wiki/Imagination" title="Imagination">imagination</a>. I think the central concept here is that Hollywood, Cap H, is as terrified of sci fi as it is of an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_invasion" class="extiw" title="w:Alien invasion">alien invasion</a>. And that’s because the studios, as they have been increasingly corporatized, become absolutely <a href="/wiki/Risk" title="Risk">risk</a> averse in a way that they haven’t always been. <ul><li>Thelma Adams, as qtd. by Lewis Beale, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/blame-star-wars-if-you-think-science-fiction-is-brain-dead">“Blame ‘Star Wars’ if You Think Science Fiction Is Brain Dead”</a>, <i>The Daily Beast</i>, (12.15.17).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Hollywood is not necessarily biased toward a particular political view, but it is biased toward what does and doesn’t make <a href="/wiki/Money" title="Money">money</a>. Since <a href="/wiki/9/11" class="mw-redirect" title="9/11">9/11</a>, the market wanted these almost <a href="/wiki/Comics" title="Comics">comic book</a> characterizations of <a href="/wiki/Muslims" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslims">Muslims</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Villain" title="Villain">bad guy</a>. But that market has dried up. It’s not interesting anymore. They want different narratives about Muslims and Middle Easterners, and networks are looking for ways to do that. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_Ali" class="extiw" title="w:Lorraine Ali">Lorraine Ali</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-hollywood-values-updates-how-hollywood-s-muslim-portrayals-1483650479-htmlstory.html">"Exploiting fear of Muslims? The far right has nothing on liberal Hollywood"</a>, <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, (Jan. 6, 2017).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I try, in my life, to follow my heart. <b>I know what it feels like to do things that are <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a>-decaying. A large aspect of life in <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Hollywood</a>, in a stereotypic way, I find unbelievably soul-decaying.</b> And I choose, albeit frustratingly to other people in my life, not to expose myself too much to too much of that. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gillian_Anderson" title="Gillian Anderson">Gillian Anderson</a> in: "Agent of Change - Gillian Anderson , who found fulfilling work in England after 'The X-Files,' returns to TV in a PBS miniseries", <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orlando_Sentinel" class="extiw" title="w:The Orlando Sentinel">The Orlando Sentinel</a></i>, p. E1. (January 21, 2006).</li></ul></li></ul> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hollywood-walk-of-fame.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Hollywood-walk-of-fame.jpg/200px-Hollywood-walk-of-fame.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="323" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Hollywood-walk-of-fame.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="226" data-file-height="365" /></a><figcaption>Hollywood is no place to grow up, no place to live. It's no place to have any friends, no place to enjoy life. It's a disgusting, horrible, craze-driven town. It's only how much do you make, or how fancy a car you have, that determines your status there. And everyone's lying so much that they don't even know they're lying anymore. There's no reality to Hollywood. The fees they pay directors are obnoxious, the money they spend on movies could feed entire starving African... I mean, fuck 'em. ~<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Bakshi" class="extiw" title="w:Ralph Bakshi">Ralph Bakshi</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Sick of Hollywood, tired of fighting and selling out as an artist. I don't believe anyone should do the same thing for the rest of his life. We get a very short time on this planet. Challenging oneself is very important. It's not that I couldn't make other great animated films, but I'd done what I wanted to do, which was make animation an adult medium, if one wanted it to be. And I'd proven to myself that it could work, and it was time to move on to something else. When I sell a painting, I get very excited. I need one person to like what I do, not a million. It's a different structure here. Plus the Hollywood thing. I mean, Hollywood is no place to grow up, no place to live. It's no place to have any friends, no place to enjoy life. It's a disgusting, horrible, craze-driven town. It's only how much do you make, or how fancy a car you have, that determines your status there. And everyone's lying so much that they don't even know they're lying anymore. There's no reality to Hollywood. The fees they pay directors are obnoxious, the money they spend on movies could feed entire starving African... I mean, fuck 'em. I made a few bucks and got out. I don't want to spend the rest of my life with those people. They're disgusting people, and you can quote me on that. There's a lot of great talent there, but it's no place I wanted to spend much time. I'd rather spend time with Rembrandt and Goya at home. They're better company than those schmucks who never read Lord Of The Rings. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Bakshi" class="extiw" title="w:Ralph Bakshi">Ralph Bakshi</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.avclub.com/article/ralph-bakshi-13690">"Ralph Bakshi"</a>, Tasha Robinson, <i>AV Club</i>, (12/06/00).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The place is unreal. The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal—they don't smell. The fruit is unreal. Even the streets and buildings are unreal. I always expected to hear a carpenter shout "Strike" and the whole place come down like a stage set. That's what Hollywood is—a set, a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set erected in the desert.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Barrymore" class="extiw" title="w:Ethel Barrymore">Ethel Barrymore</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19420315&id=d8BQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=diMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3942,6345762&hl=en">"Queen Ethel Comes This Way Again"</a> by Walter Monfried <i>The Milwaukee Journal</i>, (Mar 15, 1942).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The voice of Hollywood has grown beyond the border of the United States. It's everywhere. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Beauvoir" class="extiw" title="w:Max Beauvoir">Max Beauvoir</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/world/americas/05beauvoir.html?_r=4&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&">"A U.S.-Trained Entrepreneur Becomes Voodoo’s Pope"</a>, <i>New York Times</i>, (04/05/2008).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Hollywood is like <a href="/wiki/Picasso" class="mw-redirect" title="Picasso">Picasso</a>'s bathroom.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice_Bergen" class="extiw" title="w:Candice Bergen">Candice Bergen</a> in: Bill Adler <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=KOVGUVYj2XUC&pg=PA91">Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women</a></i>, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 23 February 2001, p. 91.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Hollywood is run by Jews. It is owned by Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity. They should have greater sensitivity about the issue of people who are suffering because they've [been] exploited. We have seen the nigger, we've seen the greaseball, we have seen the chink, the slit-eyed dangerous Jap. We have seen the wily Filipino. We've seen everything, but we never saw the kike, because they know perfectly well that is where you draw the wagons around. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marlon_Brando" title="Marlon Brando">Marlon Brando</a> Interview on <i>Larry King Live</i> (April 1996), quoted in <i>Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media</i> (1998) by Yahya R. Kamalipour and Theresa Carilli, p. 105</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Most of the <a href="/wiki/Successful" class="mw-redirect" title="Successful">successful</a> people in Hollywood are <a href="/wiki/Failures" class="mw-redirect" title="Failures">failures</a> as human beings. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marlon_Brando" title="Marlon Brando">Marlon Brando</a> in: Pete Martin <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=HVhBAQAAIAAJ">Pete Martin calls on...</a></i>, Simon and Schuster, 1962, p. 324.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Every day, to earn my daily bread <br /> I go to the market where lies are bought <br /> Hopefully <br /> I take up my place among the sellers. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht" title="Bertolt Brecht">Bertolt Brecht</a> "Hollywood" (1942), quoted in <i>Poems, 1913-1956</i> (1976), edited by John Willett and Ralph Manheim, p. 382</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In Hollywood, they think drawn <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation" class="extiw" title="w:Animation">animation</a> doesn't work anymore, <a href="/wiki/Computers" title="Computers">computers</a> are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar" class="extiw" title="w:Pixar">Pixar</a> makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton" class="extiw" title="w:Tim Burton">Tim Burton</a> in: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000318/bio">Tim BurtonBiography</a></i>, IMDb</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In Hollywood if you don't have a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_health_professionals" class="extiw" title="w:Mental health professionals">shrink</a>, people think you're <a href="/wiki/Crazy" class="mw-redirect" title="Crazy">crazy</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Carson" title="Johnny Carson">Johnny Carson</a> in: Santhosh Babu <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/hire-a-coach-and-create-your-future/1/206952.html">Hire a Coach and create your future</a></i>, Businesstoday, 5 June 2014</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hollywood_boulevard_from_kodak_theatre.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Hollywood_boulevard_from_kodak_theatre.jpg/220px-Hollywood_boulevard_from_kodak_theatre.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Hollywood_boulevard_from_kodak_theatre.jpg/330px-Hollywood_boulevard_from_kodak_theatre.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Hollywood_boulevard_from_kodak_theatre.jpg/440px-Hollywood_boulevard_from_kodak_theatre.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn <a href="/wiki/Lucky" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucky">lucky</a>. Without Hollywood it would be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_order" class="extiw" title="w:Mail order">mail order</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City" class="extiw" title="w:City">city</a>. Everything in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalogue" class="extiw" title="w:Catalogue">catalogue</a> you could get better somewhere else. - <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Chandler" title="Raymond Chandler">Raymond Chandler</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn <a href="/wiki/Lucky" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucky">lucky</a>. Without Hollywood it would be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_order" class="extiw" title="w:Mail order">mail order</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City" class="extiw" title="w:City">city</a>. Everything in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalogue" class="extiw" title="w:Catalogue">catalogue</a> you could get better somewhere else. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Chandler" title="Raymond Chandler">Raymond Chandler</a> in: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=n0mkbWQ6hIcC&pg=PA9">The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles</a></i>, University of California Press, 30 April 2005, p. 9.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>They pick your brains, break your heart, ruin your digestion -- and what do you get for it? Nothing but a lousy fortune. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenore_Coffee" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Lenore Coffee">Lenore Coffee</a>, speaking with friend and colleague <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Marion" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Frances Marion">Frances Marion</a>; as quoted in <i>Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood</i> (1997) by Cari Beauchamp</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Any <a href="/wiki/Actress" class="mw-redirect" title="Actress">actress</a> who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own <a href="/wiki/Grave" class="mw-redirect" title="Grave">grave</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Crawford" title="Joan Crawford">Joan Crawford</a> in: Mari Lyn Henry, Lynne Rogers <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=v0t9KQGqkoIC&pg=PA41">How to Be a Working Actor, 5th Edition: The Insider's Guide to Finding Jobs in Theater, Film & Television</a></i>, Ten Speed Press, 7 July 2010, p. 41</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Think of the plot of The Fly. Two attractive people fall in love. The man suddenly contracts this incurable disease. He goes downhill in a horrible and hideous way as his mate watches and then he asks her to kill him and that’s the end of the movie. Now, people would not accept that. You could not deal with that in a normal, realistic fashion. It’s just too upfront and too hard and too despairing. If you gave Hollywood that plot, they wouldn’t make the movie. And yet, because it was sci-fi, fantasy, horror, no one ever questioned how dark it was. That’s another good thing about horror—it allows you to come to grips with the nitty gritty and at the same time gives you a little cushion, a little protection as well, because it is fantasy. <ul><li>David Cronenberg, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bombmagazine.org/article/1160/david-cronenberg">"David Cronenberg"</a>, Bette Gordon, <i>Bomb</i>, (Jan 1, 1989).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I'm impressed with the people from <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>. Hollywood is hype, <a href="/wiki/New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="New York">New York</a> is talk, Chicago is <a href="/wiki/Work" title="Work">work</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Douglas" class="extiw" title="w:Michael Douglas">Michael Douglas</a> in: Genna Hill <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Veo8tHPNZgMC&pg=PA2">The 2011 Chicago North Side Real Estate Guide: Bucktown, Wicker Park, Lincoln Park, Lake View, Gold Coast, Streeterville. Andersonville, Wrigleyville, Ravenswood and More</a></i>, Wexford House Books, 24 September 2010, p. 2.</li></ul></li></ul> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Action_hero_montage.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Action_hero_montage.png/200px-Action_hero_montage.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Action_hero_montage.png/300px-Action_hero_montage.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Action_hero_montage.png/400px-Action_hero_montage.png 2x" data-file-width="968" data-file-height="726" /></a><figcaption>[Hollywood] is a very <a href="/wiki/Male" class="mw-redirect" title="Male">male</a> business, and it has in vast portions of it — the whole <a href="/wiki/Action" title="Action">action</a> movie part of it might as well be the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Army">United States Army</a> in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that – so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don’t even wanna be in it! ~ <a href="/wiki/Nora_Ephron" title="Nora Ephron">Nora Ephron</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>[Hollywood] is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it — the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that – so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don’t even wanna be in it! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nora_Ephron" title="Nora Ephron">Nora Ephron</a> in the documentary <i><a href="/wiki/Dreams_on_Spec" title="Dreams on Spec">Dreams on Spec</a></i> (2007)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>'<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard" class="extiw" title="w:Sunset Boulevard">Sunset Boulevard</a>' - the <a href="/wiki/Story" title="Story">story</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_movies" class="extiw" title="w:Hollywood movies">Hollywood movies</a> draped on a depressing <a href="/wiki/Sex" class="mw-redirect" title="Sex">sex</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Affair&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Affair (page does not exist)">affair</a> - is an uncompromising study of <a href="/wiki/American" class="mw-redirect" title="American">American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decadence" class="extiw" title="w:Decadence">decadence</a> displaying a <a href="/wiki/Sad" class="mw-redirect" title="Sad">sad</a>, worn, methodical <a href="/wiki/Beauty" title="Beauty">beauty</a> few films have had since the late twenties. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny_Farber" class="extiw" title="w:Manny Farber">Manny Farber</a> in: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thenation.com/article/sunset-boulevard">Sunset Boulevard</a></i>, The Nation, 23 September 1950.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The No. 1 problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be <a href="/wiki/Pedophilia" title="Pedophilia">pedophilia</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corey_Feldman" class="extiw" title="w:Corey Feldman">Correy Feldman</a> from his memoir <i>Coreyography</i> (2013); as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/09/entertainment/corey-feldman-pedophilia/index.html">"Corey Feldman living in fear after talking to police about sexual abuse claims"</a>, by Lisa Respers France, <i>CNN</i>, (November 9, 2017).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I made my first <a href="/wiki/Film" title="Film">film</a> on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm. Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Figgis" class="extiw" title="w:Mike Figgis">Mike Figgis</a> in: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=HgpoiHCkcWEC&pg=PP5">Digital Film-Making</a></i>, Faber & Faber, 16 August 2012, p. 5.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Secret" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret">secret</a> to kicking ass in dumbshit Hollywood... Every time you meet someone, make a fucking <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impression" class="extiw" title="w:Impression">impression</a>. Make them think you're the hottest shit in the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>. Make them think they're gonna lose their job if they don't give you one. Look 'em in the <a href="/wiki/Eye" class="mw-redirect" title="Eye">eye</a>, and never look away. Be confident and calm, be fucking bold.<br />That <a href="/wiki/Sounds" class="mw-redirect" title="Sounds">sounds</a> more like the secret to kicking ass in <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>.<br />It is, but I was gonna wait and tell you that some other time. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Frey" title="James Frey">James Frey</a> in: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=33ROPEj7b5oC&pg=PT203">My Friend Leonard</a></i>, Hachette UK, 13 March 2006, p. 203.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Gilliam" title="Terry Gilliam">Terry Gilliam</a> IMDB profile</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It's an abominable place. If there was an Old Testamental <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>, he would do his job and wipe the place out. The only bad thing is that some really good restaurants would go up as well. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Gilliam" title="Terry Gilliam">Terry Gilliam</a> about Hollywood. As quoted in the New York Times article <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/movies/14mcgr.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&ref=terrygilliam">Terry Gilliam's Feel-Good Endings</a> (14 August 2005)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Luc_Godard" title="Jean-Luc Godard">Jean-Luc Godard</a> <i>The Christian Science Monitor - August 3, 1994.</i> David Sterritt <i></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In Hollywood, no one knows anything. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Goldman" class="extiw" title="w:William Goldman">William Goldman</a> in: Jorja Prover <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=occChtBY6aEC&pg=PA12">No One Knows Their Names: Screenwriters in Hollywood</a></i>, Popular Press, 1994, p. 12</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Susan_Hayward_-_1947_-_Smash.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Susan_Hayward_-_1947_-_Smash.jpg/220px-Susan_Hayward_-_1947_-_Smash.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="250" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Susan_Hayward_-_1947_-_Smash.jpg/330px-Susan_Hayward_-_1947_-_Smash.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Susan_Hayward_-_1947_-_Smash.jpg/440px-Susan_Hayward_-_1947_-_Smash.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="910" /></a><figcaption>My <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> is fair game for anybody. I spent an <a href="/wiki/Unhappy" class="mw-redirect" title="Unhappy">unhappy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Penniless" class="mw-redirect" title="Penniless">penniless</a> <a href="/wiki/Childhood" title="Childhood">childhood</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn" class="extiw" title="w:Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Trample&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Trample (page does not exist)">trample</a> you to <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Relax&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Relax (page does not exist)">relax</a>. - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Hayward" class="extiw" title="w:Susan Hayward">Susan Hayward</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>My <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> is fair game for anybody. I spent an <a href="/wiki/Unhappy" class="mw-redirect" title="Unhappy">unhappy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Penniless" class="mw-redirect" title="Penniless">penniless</a> <a href="/wiki/Childhood" title="Childhood">childhood</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn" class="extiw" title="w:Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Trample&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Trample (page does not exist)">trample</a> you to <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Relax&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Relax (page does not exist)">relax</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Hayward" class="extiw" title="w:Susan Hayward">Susan Hayward</a> in: James Parish <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=S8I63YmASU8C">The Hollywood Book of Death: The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of More than 125 American Movie and TV Idols</a></i>, McGraw-Hill Education, 29 October 2001, p. 195.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_surgery" class="extiw" title="w:Plastic surgery">plastic surgery</a>, if they went on <a href="/wiki/Vacation" title="Vacation">vacation</a>, there wouldn't be a person left in town. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Jackson" title="Michael Jackson">Michael Jackson</a> in: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.examiner.com/article/michael-jackson-speaks-on-his-vitiligo-and-being-black">Michael Jackson speaks on his vitiligo and being black</a></i>, Examiner.com Entertainment 6 July 2009.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Every <a href="/wiki/Country" class="mw-disambig" title="Country">country</a> gets the <a href="/wiki/Circus" title="Circus">circus</a> it deserves. <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> gets <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullfights" class="extiw" title="w:Bullfights">bullfights</a>. <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> the <a href="/wiki/Church" title="Church">Church</a>. <a href="/wiki/America" class="mw-redirect" title="America">America</a> Hollywood.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Jong" class="extiw" title="w:Erica Jong">Erica Jong</a> in: Gyles Brandreth <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=kcycAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA151">Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations</a></i>, Oxford University Press, 17 October 2013, p. 151.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let any <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty" class="extiw" title="w:Pretty">pretty</a> girl announce a <a href="/wiki/Divorce" title="Divorce">divorce</a> in Hollywood and the <a href="/wiki/Wolves" title="Wolves">wolves</a> come running. Fresh meat for the <a href="/wiki/Beast" class="mw-redirect" title="Beast">beast</a>, and they are always <a href="/wiki/Hungry" class="mw-redirect" title="Hungry">hungry</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr" title="Hedy Lamarr">Hedy Lamarr</a> in: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Hrithiks-mother-in-law-Zarine-Khan-whos-hopeful-of-their-reunion/mvopinions/28599374.cms">No other man or woman is involved in what happened between Hrithik and Sussanne: Zarine Khan</a></i>, The Times of India, 10 January 2014,</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To create what it does, Hollywood has to draw young people, often of unstable <a href="/wiki/Temperament" class="mw-redirect" title="Temperament">temperament</a>, from all over the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>. It plunges them into exacting work--surrounds them with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensuous" class="extiw" title="w:Sensuous">sensuous</a> <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>-- and cuts them off from the normal sources of living. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Max_Lerner" title="Max Lerner">Max Lerner</a> in: Max Lerner <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=_AYhwormGRcC">America as a Civilization</a></i>, 1957, p. 826.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In Hollywood, the women are all <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaches" class="extiw" title="w:Peaches">peaches</a>. It makes one long for an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple" class="extiw" title="w:Apple">apple</a> occasionally. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham" title="W. Somerset Maugham">W. Somerset Maugham</a> in: Gene Shalit <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=6y31vxOh5IMC&pg=PA95">Great Hollywood Wit: A Glorious Cavalcade of Hollywood Wisecracks, Zingers, Japes, Quips, Slings, Jests, Snappers, & Sass from the Stars</a></i>, Macmillan, 22 November 2003, p. 95.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In Hollywood, brides keep the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouquets" class="extiw" title="w:Bouquets">bouquets</a> and throw away the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groom" class="extiw" title="w:Groom">groom</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Groucho_Marx" title="Groucho Marx">Groucho Marx</a> in: Joseph Demakis <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=kOnjAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA402">the Ultimate Book of Quotations</a></i>, Lulu.com, p. 402.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Well, nobody looks to Hollywood for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_commentary" class="extiw" title="w:social commentary">social commentary</a>, <b>do they?</b> They only recently discovered that there were <a href="/wiki/Black_people" title="Black people">black people</a> in the world.</li> <li>Hollywood has mistreated <a href="/wiki/Women" title="Women">women</a> in every possible way throughout its history. <a href="/wiki/Gay" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay">Gay</a> <a href="/wiki/Men" class="mw-redirect" title="Men">men</a> don’t exist. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_McKellen" class="extiw" title="w:Ian McKellen">Ian McKellen</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/may/23/ian-mckellen-half-of-hollywood-is-gay-fantastic-beasts">"Ian McKellen: half of Hollywood is gay, yet in movies gay men don't exist"</a>, Catherine Shoard, <i>The Guardian</i>, (23, May 2018).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a <a href="/wiki/Kiss" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiss">kiss</a> and fifty cents for your <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a>. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe" title="Marilyn Monroe">Marilyn Monroe</a> in: Gloria Steinem <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=rEQowKYgjqYC&pg=PT19">Marilyn: Norma Jeane</a></i>, Open Road Media, 19 March 2013, p. 19.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no <a href="/wiki/Talent" title="Talent">talent</a> and should give up, what would you do?' My <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer" class="extiw" title="w:Answer">answer</a> was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be <a href="/wiki/Wrong" class="mw-redirect" title="Wrong">wrong</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe" title="Marilyn Monroe">Marilyn Monroe</a> in: Gloria Steinem "Marilyn: Norma Jeane", p. 12.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When it comes to bending the truth to assist a <a href="/wiki/Story" title="Story">story</a>’s plot versus staying completely <a href="/wiki/True" class="mw-redirect" title="True">true</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Facts" class="mw-redirect" title="Facts">facts</a>, we can assure you any <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramatist" class="extiw" title="w:Dramatist">dramatist</a> will always select the former. <a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a>’s old saying “Never let the <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> get in the way of a good story” still reigns in Hollywood. <ul><li>James Morcan in: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://morcanbooksandfilms.com/2014/03/25/the-secret-history-of-mind-control/">The secret history of mind control</a></i>, Morcan Books and Films.</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hollywood-Studios-1922.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Hollywood-Studios-1922.jpg/220px-Hollywood-Studios-1922.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Hollywood-Studios-1922.jpg/330px-Hollywood-Studios-1922.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Hollywood-Studios-1922.jpg/440px-Hollywood-Studios-1922.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="621" /></a><figcaption>It could be that today's <a href="/wiki/Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative">conservative</a> movement remains in thrall to the same <a href="/wiki/Narrative" class="mw-redirect" title="Narrative">narrative</a> that has defined its <a href="/wiki/Attitude" title="Attitude">attitude</a> toward <a href="/wiki/Film" title="Film">film</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Arts">arts</a> for decades. Inspired by feelings of exclusion after Hollywood and the popular culture turned leftward in the '60s and '70s, this narrative has defined the film industry as an irredeemably <a href="/wiki/Liberal" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal">liberal</a> institution toward which conservatives can only act in opposition—never engagement. <br /> Ironically, this narrative ignores the actual history of Hollywood, in which conservatives had a strong presence from the industry's founding in the early 20th century up through the '40s, '50s and into the mid-'60s. ~ Govindini Murty</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>It could be that today's <a href="/wiki/Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative">conservative</a> movement remains in thrall to the same <a href="/wiki/Narrative" class="mw-redirect" title="Narrative">narrative</a> that has defined its <a href="/wiki/Attitude" title="Attitude">attitude</a> toward <a href="/wiki/Film" title="Film">film</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Arts">arts</a> for decades. Inspired by feelings of exclusion after Hollywood and the popular culture turned leftward in the '60s and '70s, this narrative has defined the film industry as an irredeemably <a href="/wiki/Liberal" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal">liberal</a> institution toward which conservatives can only act in opposition—never engagement. <br /> Ironically, this narrative ignores the actual history of Hollywood, in which conservatives had a strong presence from the industry's founding in the early 20th century up through the '40s, '50s and into the mid-'60s. The conservative Hollywood community at that time included such leading directors as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Howard_Hawks&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Howard Hawks (page does not exist)">Howard Hawks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Capra" title="Frank Capra">Frank Capra</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cecil_B._DeMille" title="Cecil B. DeMille">Cecil B. DeMille</a>, and major stars like <a href="/wiki/John_Wayne" title="John Wayne">John Wayne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clark_Gable" title="Clark Gable">Clark Gable</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Charlton_Heston" title="Charlton Heston">Charlton Heston</a>. These talents often worked side by side with notable Hollywood liberals like directors <a href="/wiki/Billy_Wilder" title="Billy Wilder">Billy Wilder</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wyler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Wyler (page does not exist)">William Wyler</a>, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Huston&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Huston (page does not exist)">John Huston</a>, and stars like <a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart" title="Humphrey Bogart">Humphrey Bogart</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lauren_Bacall" title="Lauren Bacall">Lauren Bacall</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Spencer_Tracy" title="Spencer Tracy">Spencer Tracy</a>. The richness of classic Hollywood cinema is widely regarded as a testament to the ability of these two communities to work together, regardless of political differences. <br /> As the younger, more left-leaning "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hollywood" class="extiw" title="w:New Hollywood">New Hollywood</a>" generation swept into the industry in the late '60s and '70s, this older group of Hollywood conservatives faded away, never to be replaced. Except for a brief period in the '80s when the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" class="extiw" title="w:Ronald Reagan">Reagan</a> Presidency led to a conservative reengagement with film—with popular stars like <a href="/wiki/Clint_Eastwood" title="Clint Eastwood">Clint Eastwood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone" title="Sylvester Stallone">Sylvester Stallone</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger" title="Arnold Schwarzenegger">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> making macho, patriotic action films—conservatives appeared to abandon popular culture altogether. <br /> In the wake of this retreat, conservative failure to engage with Hollywood now appears to have been recast by today's East Coast conservative establishment into a generalized opposition toward film and popular culture itself. In the early '90s, conservative film critic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Medved" class="extiw" title="w:Michael Medved">Michael Medved</a> codified this oppositional feeling toward Hollywood in his best-selling book <i>Hollywood vs. America</i>. <ul><li>Govindini Murty, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/10/hey-conservatives-its-safe-to-go-to-the-movies-again/244715/">“Hey, Conservatives: It's Safe to Go to the Movies Again”</a>, <i>The Atlantic</i>, (Oct. 12, 2011).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Modern Hollywood is a far cry from its intrepid female founder's [Daeida Hartell] "<a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dream</a> of <a href="/wiki/Beauty" title="Beauty">beauty</a>".</b> <ul><li>Rachel Nuwer in: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hollywood-was-once-alcohol-free-community-1-180949851/?no-ist">Hollywood Was Once an Alcohol-Free Community</a></i>, Smithsonian.com , 21 February 2014.</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hollywood-hotel-1905.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Hollywood-hotel-1905.jpg/220px-Hollywood-hotel-1905.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="96" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Hollywood-hotel-1905.jpg/330px-Hollywood-hotel-1905.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Hollywood-hotel-1905.jpg/440px-Hollywood-hotel-1905.jpg 2x" data-file-width="918" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption>...the couple soon moved there permanently and imagined a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopian" class="extiw" title="w:Utopian">utopian</a> subdivision" to accommodate <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">cultured</a>, wholesome <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States" class="extiw" title="w:Midwestern United States">Midwesterners</a> looking for fresh air and a second act in California... - Rachel Nuwer</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>In 1900, Hollywood, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, was a small town of 500 people, many of whom had moved there from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States" class="extiw" title="w:Midwestern United States">midwest</a>. Around 15 years earlier, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daeida_Wilcox_Beveridge" class="extiw" title="w:Daeida Wilcox Beveridge">Daeida Hartell</a>, a young woman from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio" class="extiw" title="w:Ohio">Ohio</a>, had traveled there with her husband, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Henderson_Wilcox" class="extiw" title="w:Harvey Henderson Wilcox">Harvey Henderson Wilcox</a>, and convinced him to purchase 120 acres... the couple soon moved there permanently and imagined a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopian" class="extiw" title="w:Utopian">utopian</a> subdivision" to accommodate <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">cultured</a>, wholesome <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States" class="extiw" title="w:Midwestern United States">Midwesterners</a> looking for fresh air and a second act in California...She [Daeida Hartell] was creating an <a href="/wiki/Alcohol" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcohol">alcohol</a>-free, <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">cultured</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Community" class="extiw" title="w:Christian Community">Christian community</a>. To that end she offered free lots to <a href="/wiki/Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian">Christian</a> <a href="/wiki/Churches" class="mw-redirect" title="Churches">churches</a> regardless of their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denomination" class="extiw" title="w:Denomination">denomination</a>. <ul><li>Rachel Nuwer in: "Hollywood Was Once an Alcohol-Free Community".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquor" class="extiw" title="w:Liquor">Liquor</a>, the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms" class="extiw" title="w:Firearms">firearms</a>, speeding, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_halls" class="extiw" title="w:Pool halls">pool halls</a> and even <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_alleys" class="extiw" title="w:Bowling alleys">bowling alleys</a> were banned. The riding of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycles" class="extiw" title="w:Bicycles">bicycles</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricycles" class="extiw" title="w:Tricycles">tricycles</a> on sidewalks was prohibited—telling, given that the only <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidewalks" class="extiw" title="w:Sidewalks">sidewalks</a> in Hollywood at the time were in front of the homes of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daeida_Wilcox_Beveridge" class="extiw" title="w:Daeida Wilcox Beveridge">Daeida</a> and one other prominent developer. For all its infighting, the new town of Hollywood now entered its brief golden age. A woman who grew up during the time remembered a "country life," where children ran through lemon, orange, and tomato fields and made snowmen during the rare snow of 1905. <ul><li>Rachel Nuwer in: "Hollywood Was Once an Alcohol-Free Community".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The fallacy in Hollywood is that if you’re making a 'feminist’ story, the woman kicks ass and wins. That’s not feminist, that’s macho. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Portman" class="extiw" title="w:Natalie Portman">Natalie Portman</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10401853/Natalie-Portman-interview-for-Thor-A-woman-kicking-ass-isnt-feminist.-Thats-macho.html">"Natalie Portman interview for Thor: 'A woman kicking ass isn't feminist. That's macho'"</a>, Elaine Lipworth, <i>The Telegraph</i>, (29 Oct 2013).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Hollywood is the <a href="/wiki/Definition" title="Definition">definition</a> of <a href="/wiki/Sexual" class="mw-redirect" title="Sexual">sexual</a> <a href="/wiki/Discrimination" title="Discrimination">discrimination</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ally_Sheedy" class="extiw" title="w:Ally Sheedy">Ally Sheedy</a> in: Wheeler W. Dixon <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=YN7x4VAurkYC&pg=PA13">The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving Image</a></i>, SUNY Press, 28 February 2000, p. 13.</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:Error mw:File/Thumb"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard?wpDestFile=American_way_of_life.jpg" class="new" title="File:American way of life.jpg"><span class="mw-file-element mw-broken-media" data-width="180">File:American way of life.jpg</span></a><figcaption>...When they came back, they crowned <a href="/wiki/Eisenhower" class="mw-redirect" title="Eisenhower">Eisenhower</a> and then retired to the giddy comfort of their TV parlors, to cultivate the subtleties of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_history" class="extiw" title="w:American history">American history</a> as seen by Hollywood. ~ <a href="/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson" title="Hunter S. Thompson">Hunter S. Thompson</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Far from being freaks, the <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">Hell</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Angel" class="mw-redirect" title="Angel">Angels</a> are a <a href="/wiki/Logic" title="Logic">logical</a> product of the <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a> that now claims to be shocked at their existence. The generation represented by the editors of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(_Magazine)" class="extiw" title="w:Time ( Magazine)">Time</a> has lived so long in a <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> full of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celluloid" class="extiw" title="w:Celluloid">Celluloid</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaws" class="extiw" title="w:Outlaws">outlaws</a> hustling toothpaste and hair oil that it is no longer capable of confronting the real thing. For twenty years they have sat with their children and watched yesterday's outlaws raise hell with yesterday's <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> … and now they are bringing up children who think <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_James" class="extiw" title="w:Jesse James">Jesse James</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Television" title="Television">television</a> character. This is the generation that went to <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a> for Mom, God and Apple Butter, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Way" class="extiw" title="w:American Way">American Way</a> of <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">Life</a>. When they came back, they crowned <a href="/wiki/Eisenhower" class="mw-redirect" title="Eisenhower">Eisenhower</a> and then retired to the giddy comfort of their TV parlors, to cultivate the subtleties of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_history" class="extiw" title="w:American history">American history</a> as seen by Hollywood. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson" title="Hunter S. Thompson">Hunter S. Thompson</a> in: Hunter S. Thompson <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=84o2ZGPzEVEC&pg=PA259">Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga</a></i>, Random House Publishing Group, 1 August 2012, p. 259.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>It's said in Hollywood that you should always <a href="/wiki/Forgive" class="mw-redirect" title="Forgive">forgive</a> your <a href="/wiki/Enemies" title="Enemies">enemies</a> - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana_Turner" class="extiw" title="w:Lana Turner">Lana Turner</a> in: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=4opJb3DwussC&pg=PA120">The Quotable A**hole: More than 1,200 Bitter Barbs, Cutting Comments, and Caustic Comebacks for Aspiring and Armchair A**holes Alike</a></i>, Adams Media, 15 September 2011, p. 120.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I think Hollywood invention has always been somewhat limitless. You may have relied on a bit of claymation, filmed lizards for dinosaurs, or depicted Chuck Heston parting the seas but what continues to change is execution: design aesthetic and photorealism continue to evolve. For me the limits have always resided with our imagination. The struggle is to conceive something unique. If you can achieve this, then the underlying concept or idea even badly executed, will always outshine the polished cliche. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Verbinski" class="extiw" title="w:Gore Verbinski">Gore Verbinski</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.dvdizzy.com/goreverbinski-junket.html">[1]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Yes, I'm <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde" class="extiw" title="w:Blonde">blonde</a>. When I started as an <a href="/wiki/Actor" class="mw-redirect" title="Actor">actor</a>, because of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Accent&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Accent (page does not exist)">accent</a> and my <a href="/wiki/Body" title="Body">body</a> and my <a href="/wiki/Personality" title="Personality">personality</a>, it was not what the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype" class="extiw" title="w:Stereotype">stereotype</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latina" class="extiw" title="w:Latina">Latina</a> <a href="/wiki/Woman" class="mw-redirect" title="Woman">woman</a> in Hollywood is, so they didn't know where to put me. The blond hair wasn't matching. The moment I put my <a href="/wiki/Hair" title="Hair">hair</a> <a href="/wiki/Dark" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark">dark</a>, it was better for my <a href="/wiki/Work" title="Work">work</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sof%C3%ADa_Vergara" class="extiw" title="w:Sofía Vergara">Sofia Vergara</a> in: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/07/29/sofia-vergara-on-david-beckham-tom-cruise-the-smurfs-modern-family-emmys.html">Sofia Vergara Breaks Out</a></i>, The Daily Beast, 29 July 2011</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hollywood_sign_from_farmers_market.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Hollywood_sign_from_farmers_market.jpg/220px-Hollywood_sign_from_farmers_market.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Hollywood_sign_from_farmers_market.jpg/330px-Hollywood_sign_from_farmers_market.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Hollywood_sign_from_farmers_market.jpg/440px-Hollywood_sign_from_farmers_market.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>You're now heading toward Hollywood, like any normal tourist. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathe" class="extiw" title="w:Breathe">Breathe</a> in that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmoG" class="extiw" title="w:SmoG">smog</a> and feel <a href="/wiki/Lucky" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucky">lucky</a> that only in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">L.A.</a> will you <a href="/w/index.php?title=Glimpse&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Glimpse (page does not exist)">glimpse</a>...<a href="/wiki/John_Waters" title="John Waters">John Waters</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>You're now heading toward Hollywood, like any normal tourist. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathe" class="extiw" title="w:Breathe">Breathe</a> in that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmoG" class="extiw" title="w:SmoG">smog</a> and feel <a href="/wiki/Lucky" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucky">lucky</a> that only in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">L.A.</a> will you <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glimpse" class="extiw" title="w:Glimpse">glimpse</a> a green <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">sun</a> or a brown <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">moon</a>. Forget the <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> you've heard about clean <a href="/wiki/Air" title="Air">air</a>; demand <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen" class="extiw" title="w:Oxygen">oxygen</a> you can see in all its glorious <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discoloration" class="extiw" title="w:Discoloration">discoloration</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Waters" title="John Waters">John Waters</a> in: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=tr7lYLTXmFYC&pg=PT28">Crackpot: The Osessions of b</a></i>, Simon and Schuster, 1 November 2007, p. 28.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I am not cut out to deal with certain types of individuals that run large Hollywood studios. I have checkered teeth, I smell like a Slim Jim and enjoy crushing nerdy executive hands. Not a good combination for getting your foot in the door in "Hollywood". Look what Hollywood has done to computer graphics .... turned her into a slutty sister! <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Williams_(animator)" class="extiw" title="w:Steve Williams (animator)">Steve Williams</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/craig/steve-spaz-williams">[2]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>People go to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie" class="extiw" title="w:Movie">movies</a> instead of moving. 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