Hollywood

//ˈhɒ.li.wʊd//

"Hollywood" in a Sentence (18 examples)

Hollywood isn't what it used to be.

My dream is to make it as an actor in Hollywood.

I visited Hollywood while I stayed in Los Angeles.

Manga are to the Japanese film industry what bestsellers are to Hollywood.

I cannot help but be concerned about the commercialism of Hollywood movies.

Have you ever heard about Hollywood accounting?

He is a Hollywood star.

He spun her around, took her in his arms, dipped her back, and gave her a big Hollywood kiss.

Anna Freud had a profound influence on Hollywood.

Hollywood guns have unlimited ammo, so of course all the bad guys can afford to be such bad shots.

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Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

Thinly-veiled homophobia – this time in early-2000s Hollywood – made Brokeback Mountain an immense challenge for Ossana and her fellow producer James Schamus.

FLL is located between Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood.

As many critics pointed out, the timely (but mostly tame and light) comedy was not too controversial, but too popular, too American, and too Hollywood to headline a festival that was scheduled to screen the likes of Robert Bresson's Un Feme Douce, Jean-Luc Godard's Le Gai Savior, Eric Rohmer's My Night at Maud's, Agnes Varda's Lion's Love, Paola Pier Pasolini's Pigpen, and Bo Widenberg's Adelen '31.

What did they say when they shipped you away to fight somebody's Hollywood war?

The film is at once too Hollywood and too realistic. It is tied to genre conventions while stylistically following the new code of realism, especially with regard to mise-en-scène and performance.

A Time reporter called Reagan "Hollywood handsome and remarkably youthful in appearance", a candidate who had "rattled political seismographs from coast to coast."

If you ask the woman who does your waxing she will tell you that everyone is asking for Brazilians or Hollywoods, including Gwyneth Paltrow […]

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