The amount of video content that will go up on YouTube today will be far more than all that Hollywood has created since its inception.
The culture that gave us Spanx holds us to impossible standards of beauty that even the sveltest women cannot meet (just think of all the Hollywood stars who are always trying to slim down).
It is a well-known secret among the locals that January's Sundance Film Festival is the best time to hit the slopes - all of Hollywood is down in the village schmoozing and the trails are deserted.
But while we wait until the end of July for the last previously Red studio to go Blu brining just about all of Hollywood together behind one format -- Fox, Warner, and MGM open the classics flood gates with some very famous titles like the Dirty Harry franchise and Patton.
We all know the Hollywood actor or pro athlete who talks a big game.
He was a force from 2009-11, winning all six of Hollywood Park's riding titles, three Del Mar titles and two Santa Anita titles.
Given all the machinations Hollywood executives go through to ensure their movies turn in a big opening week, it's no wonder most of the major studios avoided the third weekend in May like a black hole.
As a college professor, I face rooms of identically clad students who all watch the same sitcoms, have all seen that month's two or three mass-produced Hollywood films and all listen to the same six indistinguishable musical groups on the two local commercial radio stations.
All of this gives Hollywood a strength that will be hard to undermine.
All too often, Hollywood directors take the premise of an already cool games universe and completely re-imagine it for their own purposes.
Then again, Fake Steve Jobs might not be posting from Silicon Valley or Hollywood at all, but rather from the U.K. or the U.S. East Coast.
Throw together all the output from Hollywood and Silicon Valley to Wall Street and Tin Pan Alley, and you have a commercial empire that would have been the envy of the British East India Company or Cecil Rhodes.
Which is why Hollywood was all atwitter last Tuesday when the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences failed to name the eligible producers on two of the 10 Best Picture nominees: The Hurt Locker and The Blind Side.
It is a harsh time, and doubtless all over the Valley and Hollywood people wish Jobs the best.
"It has all the qualities of a Hollywood drama, " he said between takes.
The star of those tacky old Japanese horror films now gets a tacky new Hollywood horror film all to himself.
The man has made some of the greatest Hollywood films of all time, loves storytelling, and remains a true visionary in modern filmmaking.
Hollywood, after all, has never stopped fingering the rich as villains, and Cameron's portrayal of a gilded class seemed (intentionally) locked in its time.
But, Hollywood being Hollywood, not all the reviews have been glowing.
On November 25th, the company claimed to have created the first cloned human embryos, and made the announcement with all the skill of a Hollywood publicist.
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Hollywood, after all, used to make money by making movies and TV shows then recouping the investment by selling tickets to people in movie theaters, advertising next to the TV shows, and even more in syndicating shows it stopped producing.
The contemporary notion that it's somehow inherently bad for a film to be "talky" has done grave damage to the culture of American movie-making, enough so that a growing number of people, myself among them, have all but given up on Hollywood.
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The following year Titanic, almost the ultimate Hollywood film, swept all before it.
We go to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond all the time, to make sure they get a real 21-gun salute.
"They've built a stage next to Los Barcos which they've used for Hollywood films, so all the facilities are there, " he says.
In "Lucky Guy" they are all turned into broad-brush Hollywood-style cartoons, which is a pretty good way to describe the play as a whole.
His is perhaps the greatest Hollywood comeback story of all time.
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