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Hollywood Head Hunter
Hollywood fucking-agent Sue Mengers was famed for her ability to steal clients f...
Steven Spielberg: Final Cut
Only top-tier directors are given "final cut" by their studios. "Steven Spielber...
Charlize Theron: Lucky Break
When a knee injury forced her to stop dancing, Charlize Theron turned her focus ...
Haley Joel Osment at the Os...
"Young Haley Joel Osment was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar [for hi...
Producer's Prayer
"On transcontinental Flights," producer Steven Bach once recalled, "I would reci...
Starlet
"I asked Dylan Thomas why he'd come to Hollywood," Shelley Winters once recalled...
Soldier of Misfortune?
In the mid-1980s, P. J. O'Rourke moved to Hollywood and 'enjoyed' a brief stint ...
Hollywood Virgins
Howard Hughes was famed for his sexual appetite. "In his heyday he boasted of de...
Genius for Distinction?
Henri Bernstein visited Hollywood shortly before his death. "Genius and geniuses...
Witch Hunt
During the Hayes Commission investigation of "reds" in Hollywood during the late...
Natasha Lyonne: Hollywood E...
In the wee hours of August 28th, 2001, Natasha Lyonne's rented Dodge left the ro...
Herman J. Mankiewicz: Romeo...
Herman J. Mankiewicz, convinced that Three Comrades would make more money...
Oh MI!
One day while working as a screenwriter in Hollywood, William Faulkner asked his...
Grauman's Chinese Theatre
Sid Grauman began construction on his sumptuous Chinese Theatre (at 6925 Hollywo...
Marcus Loew: Fuzzy Thinking
When Joseph Kennedy was named chairman of Pathe (a Hollywood studio) in 1926, ma...
California Governor
Ronald Reagan's early political career was often overshadowed by his cinematic c...
Gossip Columnist
The famed Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper - who counted Howard Hughes, W...
Jack Olsen: Hollywood Scree...
After working on fifteen film projects and a television pilot, the screenwriter ...
Heidi Fleiss: Fantasy Night
While researching her role in Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss ...
Matt Damon: Welcome to Holl...
Matt Damon's early days in Hollywood were rather less than idyllic. For some tim...
Daryl Hannah: Hollywood Hop...
As a struggling actress, Daryl Hannah once dressed up and wandered the streets o...
Robert Mitchum: Prison Life
In 1948, Robert Mitchum was arrested for marijuana possession and spent several ...
Paul Haggis: Hollywood Carj...
Crash (2004) was inspired by an incident which screenwriter Paul Haggis e...
John Barrowman: Too Funny
Gay actor John Barrowman, best known for his role as the bisexual Captain Jack H...
Hollywood Reporter?
Hollywood has always bred ambivalence in many of its leading lights. Roseanne Ba...
Louis Sherwin: Hollywood Sc...
Like many screenwriters with literary leanings, Louis Sherwin was often reluctan...
Sci-Fi Producer
William Gibson, whose science fiction works are well suited to screen adaptation...
Show Biz
"There is nothing more important than getting your prescriptions correct," talk ...
King of Promiscuity
For years, Keystone Studios founder Mack Sennett ("The King of Comedy") was Holl...
HUAC Meeting (long)
"During the House Un-American Activities Committee's purge of Hollywood, liberal...
Lillian Gish: Women in Holl...
Over the course of her 75 year career, Lillian Gish was dismayed to learn that, ...
Dwarfed by His Cunning?
One of F. Scott Fitzgerald's favorite stories concerned a certain Hollywood film...
Doh!
The following item appeared in The New York Times during the Gulf War in ...
Sin City?
"It was always argued among the hip set as to whether [the great comedian Joey] ...
Oscar Polish
Glenda Jackson won Oscars for her roles in Women in Love (in 1969) and ...
Hollywood Screenwriter
Screenwriters, as Albert Brooks quickly learned, have long been the lowest membe...
Kimberley Davies Pickup Line
Kimberley Davies was once asked about the worst pickup line she had ever heard. ...
Hollywood Fishbowl
Arnold Moss was among a select group of actors who refused to live in Hollywood ...
Sin City
"Cecil B. De Mille employed fashion experts to design dresses, hats, shoes, and ...
John Stamos: 'D'oofus?
In November 2000, John Stamos bid $30,700 for an unusual item ebay item: a secti...
Bette Davis: Coming to Holl...
A reporter once asked Bette Davis what advice she would give to young actresses ...
Nicole Richie: Hollywood Rumor
Nicole Richie was once asked about a certain rumor circulating in Hollywood - th...
Viggo Mortensen: Sunday in ...
"I was on my way out of a Sunday rehearsal," Viggo Mortensen once recalled. "I w...
Jay Leno & Matt Leblanc: We...
Jay Leno: "I'm driving home one day and I see this girl with a flat tire. So I s...
Hollywood
Tallulah Bankhead was at best ambivalent about Hollywood. "Dahlink," she drawled...
Princess Vera
"[Hollywood's] first organized social system came with Mary Pickford and Douglas...
L.A. Smog
"When I first came to Hollywood," Milton Berle once recalled, "Joe [comedian Joe...
Real Estate
In July 2002, Susan Sarandon attended the unveiling of her star on the Hollywood...
Director in Training
Legendary director John Ford was initially ambivalent about his decision to foll...
Handprints
Silent screen star Norma Talmadge was the first actress to have her handprints a...
Jerry Lewis: Studio Executives
Jerry Lewis: "I had a meeting with eight or nine studio executives recently. I t...
Hollywood Moment
While working as a lifeguard in the early 1960s, Jack Nicholson saw his idol, Ce...
Hollywood Stereotype
Despite her success, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon star Zhang Ziyi once r...
Helgeland's Razzie
In 1998, director Brian Helgeland won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay for C...
Salma Hayek: Leading Lady
Early in her career, Mexican-born Salma Hayek had more difficulty landing desira...
Coote
In the early 1900s, British expatriates flooded into Hollywood, congregating at ...
Renee Who?
Early in her career, Renee Zellweger was often advised to change her name to som...
Perfect Actress
During Joseph McCarthy's notorious witch hunt in the early 1950s, Judy Holliday ...
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