If a single place-name encapsulates the LA dream of glamour, money and overnight success, it's Hollywood . Millions of tourists arrive on pilgrimages; millions more flock here in pursuit of riches and glory. Hollywood blurs the edges of fact and fiction, simply because so much seems possible - and yet, for most people, so little actually is. Those who do strike it rich here get out as soon as they can, just as they always have; the big film companies, too, long ago relocated well away, leaving Hollywood a blend of prostitutes and petty crimi-nals with visiting tourists and slumming hipsters - all under the shadow of grand old movie palaces and dive hotels.

Hollywood

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• Griffith Park
• Hollywood Hills

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