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:

• 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

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