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  Hollywood, Los Angeles, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., situated northwest of Downtown.
Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903.
Thus, the fame of Hollywood came from its identity with the movies and movie stars; and the word "Hollywood," a word that, when spoken in any country on Earth, evokes worlds, even galaxies of memories, came to be colloquially used to refer to the motion picture industry.
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 Hollywood, California - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Due to its fame and identity as a major center of movie studios and stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used colloquially to refer to the American motion picture industry in Southern California, a term deriving from the famous community.
A locally popular (though disputed) etymology is that the name Hollywood traces to the ample stands of native Toyon, or "California Holly," that cover the hillsides.
The first movie studio in the Hollywood area, Nestor Studios, was founded in 1911 by Al Christie for David Horsley in an old building on the southeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street.
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 Hollywood, California   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The first movie studio in the Hollywood area, Nestor Studios, was founded in 1911 by Al Christie for David Horsley at Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street.
Hollywood and the movie industry of the 1930s are described in P.G. Wodehouse's novel Laughing Gas (1936) and in Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run (1941), and is parodied in Terry Pratchett's novel Moving Pictures (1990), which is a takeoff of ''Singin' In The Rain.
The years 1930 to 1948 are considered the age of the "Hollywood studio system." In 1948, the studio system ended after the Supreme Court ruled that movie studios could not own theaters and play only the movies of their studio and movie stars.
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 The Hollywood Palace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hollywood Palace was an hour-long television variety show produced by Nick Vanoff.
It was staged at the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration.
In 2004, Hollywood Palace returned to television, produced by Margate Entertainment Company, the trademark owner of Hollywood Palace.
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 Hollywood
The Hollywood Palace is more than just a landmark on the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, it has become an American Icon, symbolic to American society’s views and ideas.
The Hollywood Palace was more than a theatre, it is the "home of entertainment history in the making" (http:wwwlhollywoodpalace.com).
There were many theatrical plays that were performed at Hollywood Palace such as; "Alias The Deacon," "An Enemy of the People," and "From Hell Came a Lady." As the years progressed the original intentions of the Palace evolved to incorporate radio broadcasting.
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 Press Releases - barrickgamingcorp.com
The Hollywood Palace and the Plaza Casino have signed for a six week Sunday run at the Plaza Showroom, but both parties hope to continue the arrangement for an extended run.
Hollywood Palace is produced and distributed by the TVS Television Network, the fourth oldest TV network in the USA.
The Hollywood Palace Television and Radio programs, produced by RKO Unique Records, can be traced all the way back to 1880, when vaudeville shows, which is family-oriented variety entertainment, began touring the opera houses, taverns and meeting houses in America.
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 Los Angeles Business Journal: House of Blues founder remaking Hollywood Palace - Up Front - Hollywood live music venue ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Hollywood Palace, one of Hollywood's oldest live music venues, will be rebranded next month after a group led by House of Blues co-founder John Lyons puts the finishing touches on improvements for the 76-year-old building at 1735 Vine St.
Hollywood Entertainment Partners, whose principals are Lyons and fellow club operator Steven Adelman, is investing between $2 million and $3 million in upgrades.
The name change will be the third in the long history of the Palace site, which opened as the Hollywood Playhouse in 1927, was named the Hollywood Palace in 1964, and has been home to a range of entertainment, from "The Merv Griffin Show" to Prince concerts.
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 Winterfest 2004: KNPB Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Christmas at the Hollywood Palace showcases the charm and honey-rich voices of entertainment legends Bing Crosby and Perry Como in a nostalgic compilation of classic holiday moments from the television series Hollywood Palace.
Christmas at the Hollywood Palace presents classic performances by Crosby and Como, who are joined by family, singer Diahann Carroll and comedian John Byner.
Hollywood Palace producer Bill Harbach and Felisa Vanoff, wife of executive producer Nick Vanoff, also share their memories.
www.knpb.org /programming/winter_2004/palace.asp   (404 words)

  
 ProSoundWeb | The Hollywood Palace Rocks Past 75 with New Martin Audio System
Kitchener, ON - For more than three-quarters of a century, the Hollywood Palace has been at the forefront of an evolving entertainment industry—from vaudeville and legitimate theater in the twenties and through its years as a radio studio in the thirties and forties, and finally as television studio into the early seventies.
Moving toward the century mark, the 1450-capacity Palace now caters primarily to cutting-edgerock acts in evening concerts, and then transforms into an all-night dance venue for the Hollywood in-crowd.
According to Kay Neill, CEO of Palace Holdings, the Martin system decision was followed from her uncompromising, quality-first philosophy.
www.prosoundweb.com /webexpo/snam02/martin/palace.shtml   (686 words)

  
 The Palace Theater Haunted House - HauntedHouses.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This three story building was built in 1927, one of the four professional theaters in Hollywood, originally called The Hollywood Playhouse, later renamed The Palace Theater.
The Palace Theater has been remodeled into a high class night club, that continues to be the place to film television specials, to hold film premiere parties, a place to use as a film location, and a place for top music artists to shine in front of an appreciative audience.
The ghosts that call The Palace their home, like to become active in the early morning hours, the favorite time being around 2:30 AM.
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 Groove Tickets: Purchase Your Club and Rave Tickets Online
Come and be a part of the closing of the legendary Palace and help to celebrate the spirit of renewal that has kept the LA dance scene on its toes.
The Hollywood Palace remained dark from 1971 until a Hollywood businessman purchased the property in 1978.
With this long-standing tradition, The Palace continues to make history by moving Hollywood into the next millennium from a theatre which embodies all of the glamour of the past to an entertainment facility that embraces the future.
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 Live Sound International | The Hollywood Palace: High End Performance Systems Renew An Ageless Venue
In 1941, the Palace was bestowed with the legendary name of The El Capitan Theatre after the original El Capitan, located on Hollywood Blvd., closed for remodeling and transformation to the Hollywood Paramount.
The Palace caters to standard-style FOH performances during the day and night, as diverse as The Muppets to the Misfits, therefore the system’s performance specs and components had to pacify any major act tour manager and his ‘written-in-stone’ equipment rider.
Neill concludes, “The primary aspect of The Palace is she is a big part of American entertainment history, on a par with such venues as Radio City Music Hall, The Apollo, and The Fillmore.
www.livesoundint.com /archives/2002/janfeb/holly/holly.php   (3414 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: The Hollywood Palace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
FACTOID # 205: Armenia was the first nation to formally adopt Christianity, and today has one of the few Christian cultures to still sacrifice animals on Sunday.
María Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza Rasten (born January 15, 1941; claimed birth year 1951), better known by the Latin American and Hollywood show business as Charo, is a singer, dancer, comedian, actress and classical guitar player who was born in Murcia, Spain.
Hollywood Boulevard and all the street numbers in the new district changed; 100 Prospect Avenue, at Vermont Avenue, became 6400 Hollywood Boulevard; and 100 Cahuenga Boulevard, at Hollywood Boulevard, changed to 1700 Cahuenga Boulevard.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Hollywood-Palace   (7496 words)

  
 Beebo.Org! Lately   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Hollywood Palace is one of two Hollywoods in Richmond: the other is Hollywood Pizza (on Swan St, under Richmond Station).
Hollywood Palace is perhaps not one of my favourite places in Melbourne but it does have its uses.
Hollywood Palace does souvlakis, burgers, chips, toasted sandwiches… for whenever you feel the need.
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 "The Hollywood Palace" (1964)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Tagline: From Hollywood, The Entertainment Capital of the world.
We didn't get Ed Sullivan in our town during my early years, but we DID get the Hollywood Palace - on Saturday nights at 9 p.m.
Steve Harvey is the closest thing to this type of show and it's a shame.
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 Encyclopedia topic: The Hollywood Palace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Hollywood Palace was an hour-long television (A telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points) variety show produced by Nick Vanoff.
It was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970.
For example, The Jackson 5 (additional info and facts about The Jackson 5) made their first national television appearance on the October 14 1969 episode of the show
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_hollywood_palace.htm   (150 words)

  
 Gambit Weekly : Film Listings : December 27, 2005
AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Hollywood Cinemas 9
(Thompson) AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20
AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Hollywood Cinemas 9, Prytania
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 Discover Hollywood
After a devastating fire, the Hollywood Public Library was rebuilt by the Samuel Goldwyn Foundation and renamed.
A Hollywood icon and world-class cultural attraction, the Bowl is an important part in the history of the performing arts in
Eloy Torrez “Portrait of Hollywood” mural adorns auditorium facade.
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 Experience LA : Metro Adventure: Hollywood: Hollywood/Vine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hollywood is full of famous landmarks, such as the Graumman Chinese Theater, The Hollywood Walk of Fame, and so much more.
Pantages Theatre (6233 Hollywood Blvd.; 323/468-1700), a Hollywood landmark, the Pantages Theatre opened in 1930, and is one of the great movie palaces of the era.
Hollywood Walk of Fame along Vine Street (Vine Street between Yucca Street and Sunset Boulevard; and Hollywood Boulevard, between La Brea Avenue and Gower Street) and extends west nearly a mile.
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 Joan Crawford Encyclopedia: H
It was back in the fifties, when there was a big horoscope craze in Hollywood, and I got into the thing with a lot of other half-wits, and if I was told that Tuesday would be a bad day, sure enough, Tuesday was a bad day, a terrible day.
But as time went along and I got weirder and weirder, it occurred to me that the horoscope idiots didn't know a damned thing, that I was making up my own bad days just by listening to their nonsense and believing in it.
Where MGM arranged for Joan to stay upon her arrival in Hollywood in the winter of 1925.
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 Playing the 'Palace'
Dear L.N.: "The Hollywood Palace," which ran on ABC from 1964 until 1970, was created almost by accident.
To house Lewis' show, the El Capitan theater on Hollywood Boulevard was extensively renovated.
So "The Hollywood Palace" was created to fill the gap.
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 Hollywood Encyclopedia Article, Description, History and Biography @ LocalColorArt.Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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JumptoHollywood.com - Hollywood, FL - Your local city guide featuring links to Hollywood news, weather, businesses, restaurants, schools, churches, hospitals, and organizations.
The Life and Death of 9413--a Hollywood Extra
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 Ghost
With such a history, it would actually be unusual- to Hollywood standards- if it weren’t haunted.
Spectral phenomena at The Palace has included a piano locked inside a room playing jazz music on it’s own, cold drafts and phantom taps on the shoulder.
Vargus recently returned to his Hollywood home after an extensive run of shows on the road and is currently working on a "Techno-Magic Spectacular" to be performed at the Hollywood Palace Theater in late November.
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 King Sunny Ade : Live at the Hollywood Palace - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
King Sunny Ade : Live at the Hollywood Palace
This live document from a 1990 performance of the legendary King Sunny Ade finds the leader and his expanded New African Beats in fine form.
live at the hollywood palace - similar albums
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 The Palace at Liveland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In the summer of 1968, Janis Joplin was on the Hollywood Palace show.
After Merv moved his show into its own facility down the street, The Hollywood Palace remained dark for sometime until a Hollywood businessman purchased the property in 1978.
Even President Clinton has performed at the Palace where he gave his now historic "gays in the military" speech.
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 Garden of Eden - Hollywood, CA, 90028 - Citysearch
An enticing Hollywood pleasure palace where you can indulge in more sins than...
An enticing Hollywood pleasure palace where you can indulge in more sins than Adam, Eve and an NFL football player.
Contrary to its idyllic namesake, this Garden of Eden is dark and cavernous, a Hollywood playpen complete with torches and stone pillars, a two-room dance floor, a trio of bars and a charming dungeon-like outdoor patio with comfy booths and heat lamps.
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 Hollywood Time Line
The Lasky-DeMille Barn is moved off the Paramount Studio property to a parking lot of the Hollywood Palace Theater on Vine Street.
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, responsible for moving the barn, fenced and boarded up the barn until a permanent site could be found.
The Lasky-DeMille barn was acquired from the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce by Hollywood Heritage, Inc. and moved to its present site, across from the Hollywood Bowl on Highland Avenue.
www.hollywoodheritage.org /museum/timeline.html   (525 words)

  
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Christmas at the Hollywood Palace is a compilation of memorable moments from the holiday specials of the series The Hollywood Palace, a lavish variety show from the 1960s.
It features full performances by Bing Crosby and his family, Perry Como, as well as guests such as Bob Newhart, The Lennon Sisters and the charming puppet act of Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
In various interview segments, Hollywood Palace producer William Harbach and members of the Crosby family reminisce about the original Christmas at the Hollywood Palace programs.
www.cpbi.org /content/tv/ReadMore_Christmas_Hollywood.htm   (86 words)

  
 Palace Theater - Hollywood - Reviews of Palace Theater - TripAdvisor
An historic playhouse that opened in 1927 and has showcased a variety of famous performers over the years.
I recently went there for a concert and it is great.Just don't fall down...
Explore our site to find travel information and unbiased reviews on Hollywood tourism, hotels, restaurants, maps and much more.
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