TTP | Sign of the Times
Hollywood -
February 18th, 2010
Some landmarks are so woven into the fabric of a city, state, or country that to eradicate them would be to eliminate a central part of that locale’s identity. Imagine Paris without the Eiffel Tower, New York City without the Statue of Liberty, or Seaside Heights, NJ without the shore house where JWoww perused Pauly D’s pierced chicksicle.
Conservationists in LA are trying to raise $12.5M to purchase the land around the Hollywood sign to keep it from being blocked by the possible construction of mansions by developers.
Blocking the Hollywood sign? Are they crazy? That’s like clothing a Playboy centerfold … unthinkable!
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$27,777
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Amount donated per letter by various donors to restore the sign in 1978. The nine letters raised a total of $249,993. Alice Cooper bought the “O” for a then unknown 24-year-old talk show host named Oprah Winfrey. Actually, he bought it in memory of Groucho Marx. |
Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.
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Veronica Lake, actress (1922-1973)
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Forget pot farm! Tell us more about this orgy farm, Veronica. Slowly. And in great detail.
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Hollywoodland
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noun. 1. The full name of the original sign built in 1923. It was built to advertise a new housing development in the hills above the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. 2. Movie starring Ben Affleck regarding the mysterious death of the original Superman, George Reeves.
Disheartened by her inability to break into Hollywood, 24-year-old New York stage actress Peg Entwistle leaped to her death from the top of the "H" in 1932. Ironically, two days after her death, a letter from the Beverly Hills Playhouse arrived offering her the lead role in a play about a woman driven to suicide.
Now that’s what we call method acting.
Finegood’s Sign Language
| HOLLYWeeD | Following the passage of a state law decriminalizing marijuana (January 1976). |
| HOLYWOOD | For Easter sunrise service, viewable from the Hollywood Bowl (April 1977). |
| OLLYWOOD | To protest the hero worship of Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North during the Iran-Contra hearings (July 1987). |
| OIL WAR | For the Gulf War; it was taken down by park rangers before sunrise (1991). |
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Learn more about what is at stake and how you can help save both the sign and the peak. |
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