英语国家社会与文化

The Society and Culture of Major English

Speaking Countries

Book Report

题目： Hollywood

学生姓名：纪亚露学号： 17

专业：英语

班级：10英语（1）

所在学院：外国语学院

2012年 12 月 12 日

Hollywood

The name of Hollywood was already existent long before it became synonymous to being a movie power house. The place was a small village just north of Los Angeles. The very first movie to be filmed there was in Old California. After rumors spread out that California was such a place to shoot movies, directors from all over America began to bring their projects out west into Hollywood. This is how the American Movie Industry was born.

In most times,It is unlikely for you to see real superstars. Nevertheless, when you look down at your feet,you can see the kind of "star "Ray Davies sang about：the bronze star-plaques, embedded in pink & charcoal terrazzo squares on the world's most famous sidewalk : the Hollywood Walk of Fame( Liu,2010:172).These sidewalk "stars" honor not only movie actors, but radio,TV,and stage performers,directors, singers,songwriters, and other well-known show-biz personalities.

Right below the name of each celebrity on the five-pointed stars is a small ,round emblem which illustrates the celebrity 's category ,with one of five symbols ：a motion picture camera (for movie stars & directors), a television set (for those in the television industry),a phonograph record(for singers, songwriters ,and recording artists),a radio microphone(for radio luminaries),and the twin theatrical masks of comedy and tragedy(for live stage performers). The celebrity with the most stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is Gene Autry, who earned five different stars ,one in each of the above categories(Liu,2010:174).

The Hollywood Bowl is well known for its band shell,a distinctive set of concentric arches that has graced the site since 1929. adding to the atmosphere of the Bowl,the famous Hollywood Sign,several miles away,is visible from the Bowl site.

To be frank, Hollywood Boulevard is one of the most popular tourist spots in all of Los Angeles, full of T-shirt and souvenir shops,the streets packed with gawping tourists snapping photos .It's also the home of the Walk of Fame.

Hollywood is the land of stars to its visitors.the world famous Beverly Hill and Sunset Boulevard are just a few minutes away,as is the Hollywood Bowl .The world famous Rodeo Drive and Wilshire Boulevard shopping districts can be found not far away.Visitors to the area will be unable to miss the famous Hollywood Sign set in the Hollywood Hills .Grauman's

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