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"When returned with the company to California to shoot all the interiors at he moved to a suite in the Roosevelt Hotel in downtown Hollywood. ... He could not bear to be alone, and if he was, he would often hang out of his Roosevelt Hotel window tootling on his bugle. He had friends with him constantly, particularly the Greens and actor ; above all, he spent endless hours with and . The three of them became inseparable during the filming of '."

"... The is only one of the unique feature this hotel holds. ... On August 13, 1991, the City of Los Angeles declared this building Historic Cultural Monument #545. The Roosevelt is a reminder of Hollywood's visual splendor from the magical 1920s and is one of the most visited hotels in Los Angeles."

"As the movie business grew in the 1920s, shrewd businessman (1880-1981), known later as "the father of Hollywood," developed signature properties, often with leading film stars as investors, to attract tourists and others to the area. In 1927 he opened the 12-story steel and concrete Hollywood Hotel to meet the need for both accommodations and glamour. Named after President Theodore Roosevelt to give it instant status, the hotel hosted the first Academy Awards in the Blossom Room on May 16, 1929. The complex contains over 300,000 , including the original tower with its famous penthouse suite and a two-story poolside 1950s cabana-style buildings nestled among tall palm trees. (1881-1973), who also worked in and , is given credit for the hotel's design."

"often mentions , another subject included in The Sound of Silence. I share his enthusiasm for this star of silent and early talking pictures. When I was under contract to in 1929, Anita was the darling of the lot, MGM's young glamour girl. She was everyone's favorite, and I shall never forget her kindness to me. Warm and outgoing from my first introduction to her, she invited me to her birthday party at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel — a dinner-dance on the famous Roof Garden. For one starry-eyed guest it was some enchanted evening."

"It was just after 8:00 p.m. on May 16, 1929, in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, and the first were being handed out. There was no red carpet, little press, and even less suspense, the winners having been announced three months earlier. The ceremony wasn't even broadcast over radio. After just fifteen minutes, the awards had been handed out, and the guests turned their attention back to their desserts. "Nobody felt there was any historical significance," recalled. Gaynor was there to receive her Merit Award for Best Actress, as it was called there, but she was more excited about meeting and ."

"In a ceremony to mark a 1950 hotel expansion, airline hostesses added containers of water from oceans around the world to the new swimming pool, and was invited to test the heated waters. purchased the Roosevelt from and his sister, Sally Crofwell, in the mid-1950s."

"A 1927 newspaper ad touted its grand opening as "the dominant social occasion of the year." "Don't wait," it enthused. "You will see the greatest number of stage and screen stars ever assembled. Among those invited were: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ... and scores of others. And most of them came ..."

"The Roosevelt has also been a radio and television studio. In the 1930s, broadcast a national radio show from the Roosevelt's Cinegrill—and in the 1950s and 1960s TV's came live from the hotel. The famous hotel has also been a location for numerous films, including ' (1987), (1990), and ' (2003). It is especially memorable in the 1998 version of , where the monster ape climbs atop while police helicopters circle the Roosevelt's landmark Cinegrill neon sign."

"Opened in 1927 at 7006 , the Roosevelt Hotel was and still is a major landmark. With 400 rooms in 12 stories, the hotel was originally the home of the and has hosted countless industry functions. The original and details were covered during the 1940s and 1950s but were restored in the 1960s."

"When the Roosevelt Hotel's swimming pool opened in April 1950, the management at publicized it; it was the hotel's first pool. It lured industry publicists to show off new talent using the pool area in a background for photography shoots. was photographed in the pool, and it was reported that she stayed in room 1200 for a time in the mid-1950s."

"If you're looking for historical truth in Hollywood, you're looking in the wrong spot."

"[T]he motion picture community has been as responsible as any for degrading the Indian and making a mockery of his character, describing his as savage, hostile and evil. It's hard enough for children to grow up in this world. When Indian children watch television, and they watch films, and when they see their race depicted as they are in films, their minds become injured in ways we can never know."

"Hollywood is run by Jews. It is owned by Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity. They should have greater sensitivity about the issue of people who are suffering because they've [been] exploited. We have seen the nigger, we've seen the greaseball, we have seen the chink, the slit-eyed dangerous Jap. We have seen the wily Filipino. We've seen everything, but we never saw the kike, because they know perfectly well that is where you draw the wagons around."

"Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings."

"Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers."

"In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists."

"I'm looking forward to this race. I want to thank you all for giving me a chance to come out and ask for the vote. I'm traveling your important State asking for the vote. You got some big differences in this campaign. One of them is that my opponent thinks you can find the heart and soul in Hollywood. I think you find it right here in Traverse City, Michigan."

"In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy."

"Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else."

"They pick your brains, break your heart, ruin your digestion -- and what do you get for it? Nothing but a lousy fortune."

"Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave."

"Think of the plot of The Fly. Two attractive people fall in love. The man suddenly contracts this incurable disease. He goes downhill in a horrible and hideous way as his mate watches and then he asks her to kill him and that's the end of the movie. Now, people would not accept that. You could not deal with that in a normal, realistic fashion. It's just too upfront and too hard and too despairing. If you gave Hollywood that plot, they wouldn't make the movie. And yet, because it was sci-fi, fantasy, horror, no one ever questioned how dark it was. That's another good thing about horror—it allows you to come to grips with the nitty gritty and at the same time gives you a little cushion, a little protection as well, because it is fantasy."

"I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work."

"[Hollywood] is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it — the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that – so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don’t even wanna be in it!"

"Sunset Boulevard - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties."

"The No. 1 problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be pedophilia."

"I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm. Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed."

"Emotionally resonant media about real issues have changed public's perception. Researchers have found, for example, that ostensibly realistic films like Argo (depicting the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis) or Zero Dark Thirty (chronicling the search for Osama bin Laden) altered public opinion about those events. There is also evidence that such media can result in real world behavioral change in agents of the state. In his 2008 book, Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, Philippe Sands interviewed a former lawyer stationed at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who claimed that the television show 24 inspired interrogators to "go further than they otherwise might." The journalist Jane Mayer interviewed an Army interrogator in Iraq, who said that after people watched 24, they would "walk into the interrogation booths and do the same things they’ve just seen." This is perhaps one reason why the Pentagon has collaborated with Hollywood since the early 20th century to create sympathetic portrayals on television and in film through the Entertainment Office—an arrangement often called the "military-entertainment complex." For television shows like 24 and films like American Sniper, the office will not only analyze the scripts for accuracy, it will also alter scripts to improve the portrayal of the military on screen. The Entertainment Office is in enough demand to be selective in what it will advise, reportedly turning down 95% of the scripts or story treatments it receives. "We’re not going to support a program that disgraces a uniform or presents us in a compromising way," Captain Russell Coons, director of the Navy Office of Information West, told Al Jazeera in 2014. This selectivity creates a powerful incentive for writers, producers, and directors to cede narrative ground to the Pentagon in order to secure access to their expertise, equipment, and approval."

"The secret to kicking ass in dumbshit Hollywood... Every time you meet someone, make a fucking impression. Make them think you're the hottest shit in the world. Make them think they're gonna lose their job if they don't give you one. Look 'em in the eye, and never look away. Be confident and calm, be fucking bold. That sounds more like the secret to kicking ass in life. It is, but I was gonna wait and tell you that some other time."

"People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want."

"It's an abominable place. If there was an Old Testamental God, he would do his job and wipe the place out. The only bad thing is that some really good restaurants would go up as well."

"I like the Coen brothers. Their films are smart and disturbing. I am very impressed by what George Clooney is doing now. He is very political. I like the fact that he did Oceans Eleven and Oceans Twelve, made all that money and then leveraged the money and his success into interesting projects. Johnny Depp has also set up a production company and is showing an interest in risky projects that will not be easy. I am sorry that it is hard for the average person, and even for an above-average person, to see a film that is not a Hollywood production. You see those films only in the festivals. There are few people there. That is worrying. People don't think. My goal in work is to make them think. The media do the opposite."

"Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents."

"In Hollywood, no one knows anything."

"I'm tired of being told how bad America is by leftwing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the religious freedom and women’s rights of Saudi Arabia, the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Gay people of Iran, and the freedom of speech of Venezuela. Won’t multiculturalism be beautiful?"

"Consider California. Its wealth was initially built on gold mines. But today it is built on silicon and celluloid - Silicon Valley and the celluloid hills of Hollywood."

"My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax."

"Hollywood, an industry that shapes not only our national but global memories, has been the most reactionary cultural perpetrator of white nostalgia, stuck in a time loop and refusing to acknowledge that America's racial demographic has radically changed since 1965. Movies are cast as if the country were still "protected" by a white supremacist law that guarantees that the only Americans seen are carefully curated European descendants."

"[May 17, 1939] Next day, we took a taxi into Hollywood. I was amazed at the size of the city, and at its lack of shape. There seemed no reason why it should ever stop. Miles and miles of little houses, wooden or stucco, under a technicolor sky. Miles of little gardens, crowded with blossoms and flowering bushes; the architecture is dominated by the vegetation. A city without privacy, where neighbors share each other's lawns and look into each other's bedrooms. The whole place like a world's fair, quite new and already partly in ruins. The only permanent buildings are the schools and churches. On the hill, giant letters spell "Hollywoodland", but this is only another advertisement. It is silly to say that Hollywood, or any other city, is "unreal". But what the arriving traveler first sees are merely advertisements for a city which doesn’t exist."

"You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town."

"Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood."

"Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry."

"To create what it does, Hollywood has to draw young people, often of unstable temperament, from all over the world. It plunges them into exacting work--surrounds them with a sensuous life-- and cuts them off from the normal sources of living."

"In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom."

"In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally."

"Well, nobody looks to Hollywood for social commentary, do they? They only recently discovered that there were black people in the world."

"Hollywood has mistreated women in every possible way throughout its history. Gay men don't exist."

"Hollywood and Broadway, the world-famous centers of the entertainment industry, are hotbeds of communism. Authors and performers are to be found among the most bigoted supporters of Sovietism."

"Hollywood groupthink is anathema to the nature of sci fi, which is a cerebral philosophical exploration of humankind and puncturing the limits of our imagination. I think the central concept here is that Hollywood, Cap H, is as terrified of sci fi as it is of an alien invasion. And that's because the studios, as they have been increasingly corporatized, become absolutely risk averse in a way that they haven't always been."

"Someone said to me, "If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?" My answer was then and still is, "If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.""