Hollywood (disambiguation)
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Hollywood may refer to:
- Cinema of the United States, the American film industry
- Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, the center of the American film industry
- Other places in the United States
- Hollywood, Alabama
- Hollywood, Homewood, Alabama
- Hollywood, Florida
- Hollywood, Maryland
- Hollywood, Missouri
- Hollywood, Pennsylvania
- Hollywood, Abington Township, Pennsylvania
- Hollywood, South Carolina
- Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia
- Hollywood District, Portland, Oregon
- Hollywood Park, Chicago, Illinois
- Hollywood Park, Texas
- West Hollywood, California
- Places in Europe
- Hollywood, Birmingham, England
- Holywood, Northern Ireland (pronounced Hollywood)
- Hollywood, County Wicklow, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
- Holywood, Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland (pronounced Hollywood)
- People
- Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson
- Hollywood Hulk Hogan
- Hollywood (actress and model Jeanne Basone)
- Hollywood Fats, a blues guitarist
- Matt Hollywood, indie rock guitarist and bassist
- Matt Hollywood (magician), Australian comedian and illusionist
- Uses associated with Hollywood, California, or the film industry
- "Hollywood North", a colloquialism used to refer to other film locations or film industry gatherings that occur "north" of Hollywood:
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- in Canada: Toronto, Vancouver, and by extension the Canadian film and television production community.
- in the United States: Santa Barbara, California[1], San Francisco, California[2] and the Sundance Film Festival (Park City, Utah)[3]
- The Hollywood Bowl, an amphitheatre in California
- Hollywood (documentary), a Thames Television documentary series about the early years of the Hollywood studios and the development of silent movies
- The Hollywood Freeway
- Hollywood (novel), by Charles Bukowski
- Hollywood Online (column), popular UK magazine column
- Hollywood Park, a racecourse located in Inglewood, California
- The Hollywood Sign
- Hollywood (song), recorded by Madonna available on the 2003 album American Life
- Hollywood (Jay-Z song), recorded by Jay-Z featuring Beyoncé on the 2006 album Kingdom Come
- Hollywood (album) recorded by Australian band Little Birdy in 2006.
- Hollywood, a song by Swedish band Smile.dk from the album Future Girls
- Hollywood Split, a freeway interchange in the San Fernando Valley, California
- Hollywoodland (film), the 2006 film about the death of Superman actor George Reeves
- Other uses
- The wood from the holly bush
- Hollywood Chewing Gum, a chewing gum produced in France by Cadbury Schweppes [1]
- Hollywood (graphics chip), a custom graphics chip set currently being made by ATI Technologies for the Wii gaming console
- Hollywood Records, a record label owned by Disney
- Hollywood Road, the first road in Hong Kong
- Hollywood (slang), a term used to describe a large, often excessive, dosage of cocaine
- Hollywood, Tennessee, a Crystal Gayle album
- Hollywood Tower, a tower to the north of Bristol, England
- Hollywood (video game), a video game developed by Theatrix Interactive
- Bayern Munich, FC Hollywood, a frequent reference in German media to the football team
- Other cinema centers
Some of the centers of the film industries in countries around the world have nicknames that mimic Hollywood, including
- "Bollywood": Bombay (Mumbai), India
- "Dhallywood": the Bengali cinema film industry based in Dhaka, Bangladesh
- "Hollywood North": Film locations north of Hollywood, California
- "Kollywood": the Tamil film industry based in Kodambakkam, Chennai, in the state of Tamil Nadu in South India.
- "Lollywood": Lahore, Pakistan
- "Tollywood": usually refers to the Telugu film industry in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.
- Tollywood also sometimes refers to the Bengali cinema film industry based in Tollygunge, South Kolkata, India
[edit] References
- ^ "Hollywood North Comes of Age": The 20th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival" by D.J. Palladino
- ^ San Francisco By Richard Sterling and Tom Downs ISBN-10: 1741041546; ISBN-13: 978-1741041545,Lonely Planet Publications
- ^ "Entertainment Tonight" entertainment news show reference to Sundance as "Hollywood North" January 25th, 2007 show
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