Hollywood, Los Angeles, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"So I went to Hollywood, and I rode around in limousines and had dinner with famous people, and then I came back and went to the hospital again."

"It was Hollywood, all right, and it was exciting!"

"Here I am in the locker room with my friend David, who has been a Hollywood bachelor for two decades, who has gone out with so many models and actresses that he’s good friends with the people who run the model agencies—here’s David, suave man of the world, telling me that men are the romantics, and not women."

"Hollywood has jumped on the bandwagon, too:"

"In Hollywood you say that, and such are the terrors; no one either believes or disbelieves, not even the know-ee."

"I was driving back into Hollywood. The buildings were hazy in the smog."

"They represented many Hollywood celebrities and wealthy activists who were committed to environmental concerns."

"Cynics claimed that NERF had done it to be closer to the Hollywood celebrities who were so essential to their fund-raising."

"On the sidewalk outside the studio he stood for a moment trying to decide whether to walk home or take a streetcar. He had been in Hollywood less than three months and still found it a very exciting place, but he was lazy and didn’t like to walk."

"During this time, he took his pad and pencils on a continuous hunt for other models. He spent his nights at the different Hollywood churches, drawing the worshipers."

"I DROVE ACROSS TOWN to La Brea then straight north to Hollywood."

"‘The universe of John Fante’s fiction is so immediately moving, so poetically vivid, that it’s hard to decide which is the greater quandary: that it went so long unrecognised, or that in the factitious worlds of publishing and Hollywood it’s receiving such enormous recognition today.’ The Boston Review"

"she drove the San Diego to the Harbor, the Harbor up to the Hollywood, the Hollywood to the Golden State, the Santa Monica, the Santa Ana, the Pasadena, the Ventura."

"When that failed she imagined herself driving, conceived audacious lane changes, strategic shifts of gear, the Hollywood to the San Bernardino and straight on out, past Barstow, past Baker, driving straight on into the hard white empty core of the world."

"Or maybe he'll go to Hollywood and be a movie star, you know he said that the other day"

"I went to the apartment building on Catalina first because I figured nobody would notice me in Hollywood."

"“If we live at Uncle Epifanio’s, he said you work in a hotel in Hollywood. LA guys for you, Elpidia. You can forget Carlos.”"

"Baseline and Meridian. The beginning of southern California, where some old white man had laid out the streets that went all the way to LA and Hollywood and Santa Monica."

"Last August, when she and Elpidia and Rodolfo had arrived here in Hollywood, Ximena stayed in the bed, crying."

"That’s how I got in trouble Saturday. I went down to a wig store in Hollywood. And another place I should never have gone back to."

"this weekend there was an altercation at a liquor store in Hollywood. Some old lady assaulted a lowlife named Arturo Hernandez."

"when I was almost conned, he got a job in Hollywood, and, with apologies, split, giving me $5.00 that night—and a smiling! triumphant! goodbye!"

"do you know anyone in Hollywood who has a beautiful home with a beautiful Winding Staircase where she can come down—‘to marry,’ she explains, ‘my new husband and spend my life blissfully (thats very happily, dear) on unemployment with him forever.’"

"…or moved to Coffee Andy’s in Hollywood, or gone to Golden Miami."

"It was in this parking lot out in Hollywood. This score I met out here, he got me that job."

"One night, high, he had talked everyone into driving to Hollywood, and then, moodily, had put it down: “Hollywood’s nowhere.”"

"I came back —to Main Street—I didnt even wanna see Hollywood anymore—not even think about it...."

"I just moved into this grand apartment, out in Hollywood, baby."

"In Hollywood, Randy is a well-known figure—a still-goodlooking, masculine homosexual who, the whisperers have it, pushes narcotics."

"By then I had already been in Hollywood long enough to be pegged as one of the many Hollywood drifters who fall into this world out of at least announced convenience, not strictly “belonging” to it—yet."

"the gay world of Hollywood finds its head-quarters at the Splendide bar:"

"I’ll search again through the labyrinthine world I had found on Times Square, in downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood, Market Street...."

"… with her last dime she snagged Tippi Hedren, who flew her to Holly­wood."

"Movies were America’s way of softening up the rest of the world, Hollywood relentlessly assaulting the mental defenses of audiences with the hit, the smash, the spectacle, the blockbuster, and, yes, even the box office bomb."

"I want to know how has Vietnam, then, been made unrecognizable to itself through Hollywood? And do these rooms stand in for popular culture?"

"After about five minutes a big fat black Hollywood mammy came on the screen saying: 'Yassum' and 'Noam,' and grinning at her young white missy; and I got up and walked out."

"He dropped me off in Hollywood near the Chinese Theater and turned back west to Alta Brea Crescent."

"none of the pseudomodernistic circus of the typical Hollywood night trap"

"They lived in a little house in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles—a place you never used to read about or hear about, but it was there, west of downtown, east of Hollywood, north of Inglewood, south of the San Fernando Valley, a place with no borders and little character."

"The garden party was held at the home of Sid Jacobson, who later that year would be at the center of so many Hollywood scandals."

"Or they turned west on Sunset, to Hollywood itself, riding on the “red car,” over to the Pantages Theatre, or the Egyptian, or Grauman’s Chinese."

"…the sort of thing she’d expect to find out back of the 7-Eleven, in Canoga Park, Hollywood, downtown L.A."

"I look out past the big lighted pool, out over Hollywood; blanket of lights under a neon purple sky"

"He’d discovered it on the wall of a tattoo parlor in Hollywood, among the designs customers could choose."

"These not-so-mobile automobiles, along with the Hollywood sign, the Watts Towers, and Aaron Spelling’s 56,500-square-foot estate, are the closest L.A. gets to approximating the ancient marvels of engineering."

"I chauffeured the General and Madame from Hollywood to Huntington Beach, where the Congressman lived"

"Because one reason that an absolutely authentic miracle in the home of one of Hollywood’s richest and most corrupt moguls didn’t get any media coverage, ever, even when there were “people” there from four separate independent stations, was that at the same time Franz and Callie called for their limo..."

"After trying to get a job by inserting a small advertisement in Variety (“…’some producer should put Mr. Greener into a big revue…’ The Times), he had come to Hollywood, thinking to earn a living playing comedy bits in films."

"The Gingos were Eskimos who had been brought to Hollywood to make retakes for a picture about polar exploration. They liked Hollywood."

"She come back down to Houston cause she say it’s too much up there in Hollywood."

"…people who hadn’t read the letter: Sorry for the inconvenience: We’re bringing a little bit of Hollywood to your neighborhood!"

"…the film shoot was going to generate tales of the movie people from Hollywood that would be passed on for decades…"

"I drove back into Hollywood."

"After unloading the sink at my apartment, he tried to get me to go drink flaming margaritas with him at a Mexican place; later I drove him to Kaiser Hospital in Hollywood, the Burger King of health care."

"Twenty-two Black people pop. “Pop” being Hollywood slang for having a dynamic camera presence, for being almost too photogenic."

"Angel said the address out loud, and Mrs. Bunny said, “Hollywood? Sunset Boulevard? Shit.”"

"…the car transporting us not only west to Hollywood but back to the glory days of Saigon circa 1969, after my return from America."

"On a low teakwood table, a small hand mirror with “Hollywood, Here I come!” stenciled on it, and a razor, and a couple of rolled hundred-dollar bills."