See the Sign Right Now
Aug 29, 2010 The Sign
The Sign is still there. If you wanna see it you can just follow this link – http://www.hollywoodsign.org/ where you can see the Sign itself and also take a look beyond from the Sign’s lofty vantage.
Celebrity Gallery
Mar 3, 2010 Supporters, The Sign
Celebrity Gallery – Supporters of the Sign
Here are some of the celebrities who have actively participated in saving the sign:
Are you the next star to add to this gallery?
History – Hollywood Star
Jan 18, 2010 The Sign
One of the world’s most famous landmarks – the words “Hollywood” over Los Angeles – will experience a “cosmetic surgery”.Huge letters to the world the impressive symbol of the Hollywood movie insutry, will be restored and cleaned. They will be coated with a new coat of paint for the first time in the last ten years.The white letters, which are 13.7 meters high and nearly 11 meters wide, require a thorough cleaning.
But let’s look how the Sign has come so far.
Hollywood sign in 1923 was installed by the newspaper Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler. Chandler hired contractor George Roche to build the world’s largest sign. The letters of the sign spelled “HOLLYWOODLAND.” The sign was built with telephone poles and barn roofing at a cost of $21,000.00, borrowed from prestiti personali. Holes were punched through the sign to help relieve stress caused by wind. Although it was intended to last for only two years, the sign survived to become a beloved part of American history.
Originally it was a magnificent advertisement for new homes – new luxury real esate project – it had an inscription “Hollywoodland”.
It was intended that the letters will be present for only 18 months, but local officials decided to remove the Sign’s last four letters of the inscription and save the rest of it.
In 1973 the inscription was declared a cultural heritage – special status which has helped to protect it until the present day.
You can’t get any closer to Hollywood!
A Try to Copy the Sign
Nov 15, 2009 The Sign
Film director Peter Jackson in his new study in the New Zealand city of Wellington is planning to deploy a Wellywood mark, which is a reference to the famous inscription Hollywood. His plan is something that legitimately could be quite difficult.
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which owns the Hollywood Sign in the Los Angelos, promises to prosecute P. Jackson if it is deployed in its hometown’s version of the Hollywood sign. Chamber’s president Leron Gabler notes to the Telegraph newspaper that the inscription is a protected trademark. “We have no objection of them placing their mark, but only if they do not copy ours.”
P. Jackson, who as the author of the Lord of the Rings movie has won an Oscar award, says that it is intended to reproduce exactly the original Sign as how it appeared in 1923. “Big words Wellywood would be relating to Hollywood, but not in a satire way, even if the inscription would look completely different,” said Mr Jackson.
The Movie – The Hollywood Sign
May 15, 2009 The Sign
Three attractive former Hollywood actor – Tom, Cage and FloYd – decide to put their acting skills from the past in work to full a bandit and get from him 7 million US dollars, stating that they have found his latest victim’s corpse which had been dug at the Hollywood Sign. Disguised as police detectives, the Trio gets amongst violent gangsters, and the peak of the situation is the moment when the criminals discover that they have been fooled …
Year: 2001
Original name: The Hollywood Sign
Starring: Tom Berenger, Jacqueline Kim, Rod Steiger, Burt Reynolds, Al Sapienza, Dominic Keating, Eric Bruskotter, David Proval
Movies directed by: Sönke Wortmann
Film Genre: Comedy Thriller
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