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1. HOLHIG_110725_012.JPG: The Road to Hollywood: How some of us got here From Erika Rothenberg's (the artist's) site at http://erikarothenberg.com/rth/rtohwd.shtml THE ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD, A PUBLIC ART PROJECT IN LOS ANGELES The Road to Hollywood is a marble mosaic and concrete floor piece continuing Hollywood's famous floor tradition -- Mann's Chinese, Walk of Fame, etc. -- snaking hundreds of feet through a development in Hollywood called Hollywood & Highland, the new venue for the Academy Awards Celebration, right next to Mann's Theatre. The artwork contains 49 stories of how different people in the entertainment business came to Hollywood and began their careers. The stories were gathered through interviews, books, articles and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Library collection of oral histories. The Road ends at Highland Avenue at an oversized chaise lounge made of glass-reinforced concrete over a steel frame. An entire family can sit on this lounge and have their picture taken with the Hollywood sign in the background.
2. HOLHIG_110725_015.JPG: "You've got to come to Hollywood," they said. "Movies is the third biggest business in the world. Safety razors is first, corn plasters second, and movies third." So I went. -- Cowboy star (Will Rogers) According to the artist's site, these aren't necessarily direct quotes from the people. Here's her note from http://erikarothenberg.com/rth/rthnames.shtml WHO'S WHO ON THE ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD The stories on "The Road to Hollywood" are based on research and interviews, but most are not actual quotations by the subjects. The art work identifies people by their occupation only, but, for the curious, following are the names
3. HOLHIG_110725_019.JPG: I drove out from Missouri with my luggage piled up to the back of my head and all the way to the top on the passenger side. I couldn't see behind me, but I was heading west, and that's all I needed to see. -- Movie star (Brad Pitt)
4. HOLHIG_110725_023.JPG: I parked my car in front of each movie studio, posed, and waited to be discovered. That never happened, but eventually I got a manager. He turned me into a movie star. -- Actor (Rock Hudson)
5. HOLHIG_110725_029.JPG: I realized that if I didn't do something pretty soon I was going to be digging ditches in Chicago for another twenty years. So I came out here. I got work as a security guard for movie stars, and they helped me find an agent. I was just about to give up when I got my first part. Now I've got an Oscar nomination. -- Actor (Michael Clarke Duncan)
6. HOLHIG_110725_040.JPG: My first job was holding up the Cowardly Lion's tail with a fishing pole so it could tap in time to the music as he skipped down the Yellow Brick Road. After a hundred takes, the director gave up on the idea. -- Property master (Carl Nugent)
7. HOLHIG_110725_048.JPG: I was working in an office in New York, and my boss said to me, "You're not so good as a secretary; is there anything else you'd like to do?" So I moved to L.A. and began taking acting lessons. -- Actress (Catherine Keener)
8. HOLHIG_110725_053.JPG: My trainer thought I'd never make it because I was cross-eyed, but a producer thought it would be an advantage. "I've never seen a cross -- eyed lion, and neither has the rest of the world," he said. -- Animal actor (Clarence the Lion, a.k.a. Freddie)
9. HOLHIG_110725_058.JPG: I bought a camera in a pawnshop and eventually managed to become a Life magazine photographer. At age fifty-seven I broke into films, becoming the first African American to produce and direct a major studio movie. -- Director (Gordon Parks Sr.)
10. HOLHIG_110725_069.JPG: I told everyone who would listen how talented my children were. A letter came from a studio saying, "Don't make a special trip, but if you're ever in L.A., look us up." I moved the family out immediately. -- Stage mother (Heart Phoenix)
11. HOLHIG_110725_075.JPG: I was in a coffee shop and I saw that the owner of a famous comedy club was there too. I stood up on my chair and did my act right there. He invited me to perform at his club. -- Comedian (Andrew Dice Clay)
12. HOLHIG_110725_079.JPG: I came her from the Virgin Islands and got a job cleaning toilets. Eight years later I cofounded a grip truck service. -- Key grip (Jose Santiago)
13. HOLHIG_110725_083.JPG: The first host of American Bandstand got fired after coming to work drunk, and I got the job. -- TV host/Producer (Dick Clark)
14. HOLHIG_110725_092.JPG: My mom said, "Whatever you do, don't go to Hollywood," so I moved there right after college. My band got a gig in Santa Monica, but we got booed off the stage, so I decided to try a solo career. -- Musician (Weird Al Yankovic)
15. HOLHIG_110725_095.JPG: A producer saw me in a TV commercial and brought me out from Illinois. I did a pilot, some guest shots, and at age eleven had my own show. -- TV star (Gary Coleman)
16. HOLHIG_110725_098.JPG: We met in a homeless shelter in Arkansas. Then we both ran for political office and lost, so we decided to come out here and break into show business. -- Street performers (Elton and Betty White)
17. HOLHIG_110725_101.JPG: I went to film school, but I became known for the dinners I gave, not for my camera work. Now I'm a producer of parties, with the guests and the food as costars. -- Caterer (Nick Grippo)
18. HOLHIG_110725_108.JPG: For years my musician dad had introduced me to script supervisors on sets, saying, "My daughter wants to do what you do when she grows up." When I was old enough, he got me a job. -- Script supervisor (Gloria Gottshalk Morgan)
19. HOLHIG_110725_110.JPG: They were looking for someone to play a Japanese soldier during World War II, but all the Japanese American actors were in the army or had been placed in detention camps, so I, a Chinese American, got the job. -- Actor (Kam Tong)
20. HOLHIG_110725_115.JPG: As a kid, I worked for my dad's office-cleaning service. I'd practice routines at night in the empty buildings. -- Comedian/Actor (Chris Tucker)
21. HOLHIG_110725_118.JPG: My mother made me practice. For a long time I hated her for it. Now I'm so glad she did; music is my life. -- Session musician (Beth Elliott)
22. HOLHIG_110725_126.JPG: I was a sixteen-year-old girl in a sweater sipping a strawberry malt when a guy came up to me and said, "How would you like to be in pictures?" -- Actress (Lana Turner)
23. HOLHIG_110725_130.JPG: In art school I couldn't stop myself from drawing clothes on all my nudes. I realized I was more interested in the clothes. -- Costume designer (Travis Banton)
24. HOLHIG_110725_133.JPG: I had been a nightclub comic for thirty-seven years when TV came calling. -- Sitcom star (Redd Foxx)
25. HOLHIG_110725_136.JPG: I wrote some jokes and sent them around, but it was almost impossible for a woman to get hired back then. My first job was a secret, ghostwriting for a guy with writer's block. -- Gag writer (Dorothy Kingsley)
26. HOLHIG_110725_140.JPG: When I got to L.A. it was heavy metal, so I started playing lesbian bars in the suburbs. A woman came in whose husband was a manager, but it took him a while to get record execs to come out to the burbs to hear my songs. -- Rock star (Melissa Etheridge)
27. HOLHIG_110725_145.JPG: I left a successful career in Mexico and came here. I was so naive I called the William Morris Agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. "He's been dead for years," they said. So I worked a bunch of jobs and tried to improve my English. Three years later I got my first part. -- Actress (Salma Hayek)
28. HOLHIG_110725_154.JPG: I was still wearing my cop's uniform when I decided to audition as a stuntman. The casting director looked worried, but when I told him I just wanted a movie job, a wave of relief swept over his face. He hired me immediately. -- Stuntman ("Bad Chuck" Robertson)
29. HOLHIG_110725_157.JPG: I'd sneak up a hill near my house and watch drive-in movies through binoculars. That's how I found my goal in life - -- to make the trashiest motion picture in history. -- Director (John Waters)
30. HOLHIG_110725_161.JPG: First I worked in the lab, dunking film in colored washes, then I was taught to be a camera operator. Cecil B. DeMille said I invented the soft focus, because everything I shot was blurry. -- Director (Mervyn LeRoy)
31. HOLHIG_110725_165.JPG: Louis B. Mayer saw me in a film in Berlin and asked me to come to Hollywood if I was willing to lose some weight. "We don't like fat girls in my country," he said. -- Actress (Greta Garbo)
32. HOLHIG_110725_170.JPG: I got a telegram from an agent in Hollywood who was looking for little people to play Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz. I don't know how he got my name. I was just a teenager in Alabama. -- Actress (Margaret Pellegrini)
33. HOLHIG_110725_173.JPG: I was a hatcheck girl in New York. A guy asked if I was an actress, and I said, "Yes," and he said, "I'm an agent in L.A.," and I said, "Oh, sure." But he really was, and he got me my first couple of movie roles, although I have a new agent now. -- Actress (Gretchen Moll)
34. HOLHIG_110725_177.JPG: I was a Welfare mother who got herself together and wrote a one-woman show that made it to Broadway. -- Movie star/TV host (Whoopi Goldberg)
35. HOLHIG_110725_182.JPG: I was teaching at UCLA when a producer called, looking for a student to score a sci -- fi movie. "I'll send my best student," I said, but I sent myself instead. -- Compose (Paul Chiahara)
36. HOLHIG_110725_185.JPG: I went through a period of rejections, getting close on things but not getting them, having no money, leeching off friends and losing lovers because they thought I was a no-good bum. Eventually things got better. -- TV star (David Duchovny)
37. HOLHIG_110725_190.JPG: A German director working in Hollywood asked me to come out from Chicago to write a film on "zess." I had no idea what that was but hopped on a plane anyway. When I arrived, I realized that was how he pronounced "jazz." -- Screenwriter (Philip Yordan)
38. HOLHIG_110725_194.JPG: I borrowed sketches from all the best students in my art school, then applied for a job at Paramount. The head designer said he had never seen so much talent in a single portfolio. -- Costume designer (Edith Head)
39. HOLHIG_110725_199.JPG: I had no Hollywood aspirations, but one of my professors at Long Beach told me I was joking around too much in class and I should go to a comedy club and see if I could make those people laugh. -- Comedian (Paul Rodriguez)
40. HOLHIG_110725_204.JPG: I don't know what brought me here or how I got into the movie business. All I know is that every time I start a new film, I'm as excited as that twenty-year-old kid who drove to California not knowing a soul. -- Art director (Charles Breen)
41. HOLHIG_110725_272.JPG: I wangled a meeting with a big-time cinematographer. "You don't know how lucky you are," he told me. "I'm going to hire you." -- Cinematographer (Steven Poster)
Wikipedia Description: Hollywood and Highland Center
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The Hollywood & Highland Center is a shopping mall and entertainment complex at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in the Hollywood district in Los Angeles. The 387,000-square-foot (36,000 m2) center also includes TCL Chinese Theatre (formerly Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and Mann's Chinese Theatre) and the Dolby Theatre (formerly known as the Kodak Theatre), home to the Academy Awards. The historic site was once the home of the famed Hollywood Hotel. Located in the heart of Hollywood, along the Hollywood Walk of Fame, it is among the most visited tourist destinations in Los Angeles.

The complex sits just across Hollywood Blvd. from the El Capitan Theatre and offers views of the Hollywood Hills and Hollywood Sign to the north, Santa Monica Mountains to the west and downtown Los Angeles to the east. The centerpiece of the complex is a massive three-story courtyard inspired by the Babylon scene from the D.W. Griffith film Intolerance. The developer of the shopping center built part of the archway and two pillars with elephant sculptures on the capitals, just as seen in the film, to the same full scale. It gives visitors an idea of how large the original set must have been.

Tenants include 75 shops , two nightclubs and restaurants , a movie theater, The Highlands nightclub and Level 3 nightclub and a Lucky Strike Lanes bowling alley. The portion of the center facing Hollywood Boulevard houses retail tenants such as GAP, American Eagle, Sephora, and Express.

Hollywood & Highland also houses 65,000 square feet (6,000 m2) of gathering spaces including the Grand Ballroom, used for the Oscars Governors Ball. Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck operates his regional headquarters out of the complex. The center also includes television broadcast facilities that in 2004 included the studios for the daily talk show On Air With Ryan Seacrest. Currently, the studio is home to Revolt TV.

The 637-room Loews Hollywood Hotel is also part of the site. The LACMTA Red Line's subway station of the same name is beneath the structure. Also, Metro Local lines 156, 212, 217, 222, 656 and Metro Rapid 780 serve Hollywood & Highland.

Development

Developed by Trizec Properties and with funds from the Community Redevelopment Agency, Hollywood & Highland opened after three years of construction in November 2001 and is part of an overall effort to revitalize Hollywood Boulevard.

The project is an example of joint development, in which a public agency leases the right to develop a parcel in exchange for improvements to the property, in this case, an enhanced portal to the Hollywood/Highland Metro Red Line station. TrizecHahn leased 1.35 acres (5,500 m2) of Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority land for 55 years at a rate of $492,000 per year (with additional increases added every five years based on the Consumer Price Index) and four 11-year optional extensions.

Leading up to the construction of the development the City of Los Angeles was persuaded, through its Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), to contribute at least $90 million in 1998 toward the initial construction of Hollywood and Highland. This was in addition to the costs of constructing the Red Line subway station below the mall.

Trizec Properties Inc. sold its interest in the development for over $200 million in 2004 to CIM Group. This was a substantial loss and represented an investment failure as it was estimated that Trizec spent at least $625 million to develop the center.

The current owner, CIM Group (CIM), describes itself as a premier real estate fund manager that makes private equity and/or debt investments in urban communities throughout North America. CIM is headquartered in Hollywood in the TV Guide Building located across the street from Hollywood and Highland. (CIM also owns and manages the TV Guide Building.) CIM has active projects in Los Angeles, West Hollywood, Orange County, Pasadena, Santa Monica, Oakland, Washington D.C., Austin TX, Boulder CO, as well as other communities. One of their better known projects in the Los Angeles region is the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. CIM rebranded Hollywood and Highland and repositioned the center with higher end tenants. In 2005, the center underwent renovations to add additional features such as escalators leading visitors from Hollywood Boulevard directly to the third floor of the central courtyard, new signage, and new stores.

Controversy and criticism

The Hollywood and Highland complex opened in 2001 with a conditional use permit that enabled, among other things, for the complex to have special exemptions of Los Angeles billboard ordinances. Despite objections of some residents and neighbors, in 2002 this agreement was amended and extended for an additional 20 years. L.A. City Councilman Eric Garcetti, who then represented the Hollywood-area district and was elected mayor in 2013, supported extending this special permit.

The design of the center has been criticized. In 2007, "Curbed L.A.", an online magazine, named Hollywood and Highland the "winner" of their Ugliest Building in Los Angeles contest. In selecting Hollywood & Highland, they cited its aesthetics, pedestrian unfriendliness, confusing circulation, and "mish-mash of architectural styles".
Impact

The center played a significant role in attracting development to other parts of Hollywood Boulevard. The TV Guide Hollywood Center (formerly owned by CIM Group) across the street reconstructed the ground floor and has attracted new tenants such as American Apparel, Baja Fresh, Hooters, and Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. Other notable retail stores that have a presence on the Boulevard include clothier H&M and the Spanish retail chain Zara. In addition, several blocks further east on Vine Street, a W Hotel opened incorporating the existing Hollywood/Vine Metro Red Line station.

The sidewalk in front of Hollywood and Highland is considered a coveted location for recent additions to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

As such is one of the few locations where the star memorials are "doubled up" rather than being placed linearly, in order for more stars to be accommodated in front of the center.

In February 2005, the Academy Awards statuettes were put on display for public viewing at Hollywood and Highland before the ceremony on March 5. Visitors could have a picture taken outside with a giant prop Oscar that was to be used on the red carpet and in the exhibit could learn about the history of the Academy Awards, see the statuettes that were to be presented, and even get their picture taken holding an actual Oscar statuette. It became extremely popular, so the Academy decided to continue it. The exhibit opened on February 9, 2006 and closed February 24, when the Oscars were removed and paraded down the red carpet into the Dolby Theatre.
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