Hollywood (disambiguation)

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Hollywood may refer to:

Contents 1 Places 1.1 United States 1.2 Europe 1.3 Asia 2 Uses associated with Hollywood, California, or the film industry 2.1 Other cinema centers 3 Film 4 People 5 Music 6 Other uses

• Cinema of the United States, or the American film industry in general

[edit] Places

[edit] United States

California

• Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, the center of the American film industry, a former city, extant district, of Los Angeles
  • The Hollywood Bowl
  • The Hollywood Freeway
  • The Hollywood Sign
  • North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
  • East Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
  • West Hollywood, California
  • South Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, an informal, indistinct, reference, that can include as far as Wilshire Boulevard, & beyond
  • Hollywood Park Racetrack, a racecourse in Inglewood
  • former Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, now: Hollywood Forever Cemetery
  • Hollywood Recreation Center Park, Cole Avenue, Los Angeles Department of Recreation & Parks
  • Hollywood Split, a freeway interchange in the San Fernando Valley

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

[edit] Europe

• Hollywood, Birmingham, England
• Hollywood, County Wicklow, Ireland
• Hollywood Tower, a tower to the north of Bristol, England
• Holywood, Northern Ireland (pronounced holy-wood)
• Holywood, Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland (pronounced holy-wood)

[edit] Asia

• Hollywood Road, the first road completed in Hong Kong

[edit] 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 and the United States
• Hollywood (documentary), a 1980 Thames Television documentary series about the early years of the Hollywood studios and the development of silent movies
• Hollywood (novel), a 1989 novel by Charles Bukowski

[edit] 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
• "Kollywood": the Tamil film industry based in Kodambakkam, Chennai, in the state of Tamil Nadu in South India
• "Lollywood": Lahore, Pakistan
• "Nollywood": Nigeria
• "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
• "Mollywood": a joking reference to LDS cinema, a genre of U.S. cinema featuring themes relevant to the Latter Day Saint movement; the "Molly" comes from "Molly Mormon", a term for the stereotypical "ideal Mormon woman"

[edit] Film

• Hollywood (1923 film), a silent film featuring most of the major film stars of the era in cameo roles, now considered a lost film
• Hollywoodland (film), the 2006 film about the death of Superman actor George Reeves
• Hollywood North (film), the 2003 film starring Matthew Modine
• Hollywood Hong Kong, a 2001 film by director Fruit Chan

[edit] People

• Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson, an American football player
• Hollywood Hulk Hogan, a wrestler
• Hollywood Fats, a blues guitarist
• Matt Hollywood, indie rock guitarist and bassist
• Matt Hollywood (magician), Australian comedian and illusionist
• Jesse James Hollywood, kidnapper and murderer
• Hollywood Montrose, a character from the film Mannequin
• Hollywood, a recurring character in 2 Stupid Dogs.

[edit] Music

• "Hooray for Hollywood" from 1937 film Hollywood Hotel
• "Hollywood" (Madonna song), a 2003 song by Madonna
• "Hollywood" (Jay-Z song), 2006 song by Jay-Z
• "Hollywood", a song by Collective Soul
• "Hollywood", a song by The Cranberries
• "Hollywood", 1999 song by Nickleback
• "Hollywood", a song by Swedish band Smile.dk
• "Hollywood (Africa)", a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Hollywood (album), 2006 album by Australian band Little Birdy
• Hollywood, Tennessee, an album by Crystal Gayle
• Hollywood Records, a record label owned by Disney

[edit] Other uses

• The wood from the holly bush
• Canal Hollywood, an Iberian movies channel
• Hollywood Chewing Gum, a chewing gum produced by Cadbury Schweppes
• Hollywood (graphics chip), a custom graphics chip set currently being made by ATI Technologies for the Wii gaming console
• Hollywood (slang), a term used to describe a large, often excessive, dosage of cocaine