Hollywood
If a single place-name encapsulates the LA dream of glamour,
money and overnight success, it's Hollywood . Millions of
tourists arrive on pilgrimages; millions more flock here in pursuit
of riches and glory. Hollywood blurs the edges of fact and fiction,
simply because so much seems possible - and yet, for most people,
so little actually is. Those who do strike it rich here get out as
soon as they can, just as they always have; the big film companies,
too, long ago relocated well away, leaving Hollywood a blend of
prostitutes and petty crimi-nals with visiting tourists and
slumming hipsters - all under the shadow of grand old movie palaces
and dive hotels.
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