HOLLYWOOD COMMEMORATIVE EDITION

How our town’s image factories rose, prospered and conquered the world — and the big challenges they now face.

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The pictures-perfect city
HOLLYWOOD | OUR TOWN

Why here? Why did the distant burg of Los Angeles become to the movies what Mesopotamia and Athens...



The allure of illusion
HOLLYWOOD | GLAMOUR INC.

Coiffed and cultivated, Hollywood virtually invented the word. Where has it...



Judgment days
HOLLYWOOD | THE REVIEWS

Sampling Los Angeles Times reviewers’ opinions through the decades.



Under their influence
HOLLYWOOD | MOVIE MILESTONES

A select sprinkling of some of the films that changed Hollywood.



Stars of the living room
HOLLYWOOD | TV MILESTONES

Ten TV programs that had "inarguable influence."



A system gone with the wind
HOLLYWOOD | THE STUDIOS

Small kingdoms known as MGM, RKO and Warners once ruled. Buildings and names...



A survivor who's seen it all
HOLLYWOOD | THE MOGUL

Old Hollywood or new, Dick Zanuck has been a player.



Alive with more than history
HOLLYWOOD | ON THE LOT

Villages of soundstages, theme streets and traditions, offering a sense of place...



They stoked the star-maker machine
HOLLYWOOD | MEDIA

Hollywood gossip columnists, fan magazines and industry trade papers were the...



Those Hollywood nights
HOLLYWOOD | AFTER DARK

There was a time when stars of stage and screen enjoyed spending a night on...



Contempt for the hometown
HOLLYWOOD | THE MOVIES VS. THE CITY

Screenwriters and directors have played a major role in how Los Angeles is...



Years in the making
HOLLYWOOD | IN REEL TIME

And now for a slow pan through notable developments in the life of the movies...



Directors without borders
HOLLYWOOD | IMMIGRANTS

Hollywood renews its long-standing affection for foreign filmmakers in an era...



Making the pitch for 'Hollywood! The Movie'
HOLLYWOOD | A SHADOW HISTORY

OK, listen: "Birth of a Nation" meets "The Magnificent Seven," maybe with a...



Arrested development
HOLLYWOOD | COURTHOUSE CONFIDENTIAL

Now as then, celebrity scandals make for splashy news.



Where the wild things star
HOLLYWOOD | CREATURES

It wasn’t the pictures that got small. The insects got big. Real big.



See if you star at this screen test
HOLLYWOOD | POP QUIZ

Test your knowledge of Hollywood trivia and see how you rate.



A medium in motion
HOLLYWOOD | THE SCIENCE OF MOVIES

From Apple to Zoopraxiscope, a guide to technologies that have helped to shape...



HOLLYWOOD | THE ARTISANS

In a company town where people stay for the credits (and even applaud the names in the fast-rolling small...



HOLLYWOOD | NOVEL GAZING

I'm a screenwriter by trade, but I came to the novel about Hollywood long before I started writing...


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