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Hollywood|ˈhɒlɪwʊd|
[A region near Los Angeles in California, the chief production centre of the U.S. cinema business.]
Generally, the American type of moving picture, its characteristics and background. Also attrib. (or as adj.) and Comb.
1926A. Huxley Jesting Pilate ii. 198 What is this famous civilisation of the white man which Hollywood reveals? 1928H. Crane Let. 27 Apr. (1965) 325 She ought to be a little different than the typical Hollywood hostess. 1929E. Wallace Red Aces. i. 218 A high-class school at Brighton, where girls are taught to..use lipstick and adore the heroes of Hollywood. 1932Kipling Limits & Renewals 143 The standardised Hollywood screech of a Producer. 1933Punch 30 Aug. 225/1 An American producer says that if he had his way he could make Elstree into and English Hollywood. 1934H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. II. viii. 513 There was a vast editor's desk, marvellously equipped, like a desk out of Hollywood. 1935R. Macaulay Personal Pleasures 137 It is not..for mechanically recorded voices, however Hollywood, to mimic this universal terrestrial passion [love]. 1937N. & Q. 13 Mar. 181/2 Unlike the Japanese, they [sc. the Chinese] do not ape Hollywood. 1939C. Morley Kitty Foyle 319 Those black and white yachting shoes..were definitely Hollywood. 1940Writer's Digest June 13/2 It is at this point that the Hollywood ingenue goes Hollywood. 1942T. Rattigan Flare Path i. 23 Face the music? How beautifully Hollywood! What was your idea? To get Teddy alone and say ‘I love your wife’? 1959Listener 10 Dec. 1048/3 A revolt against Hollywood-bourgeois values. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 294 Her Hollywood-interior lodge.
Hence Hollywooˈdese, the style of language supposed to be characteristic of Hollywood films; Hollywooˈdesque a., characteristic of or resembling Hollywood films; ˌHollyˈwoodian, -ean a., of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Hollywood or its films; ˈHollywoodish a., somewhat resembling Hollywood films; ˈHollywoodism, characteristic style or idiom of Hollywood films; ˈHollywoodize v., to make typically Hollywoodian; so ˈHollywooˌdizing vbl. n.
1927Daily Express 4 May 4 The cottage is so picturesque and Hollywoodesque that..it is more like a ‘set’ than a real house. 1928Ibid. 4 May 10/2 Mr. Douglas Fairbanks..is meditating..a slap-up, original Hollywoodish sequel of his own devising. 1934A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 23 What frills, what flounces!..The cut was a Hollywoodian adaptation from the French. 1941Scrutiny IX. 346 Puccini, that voice pervasively symbolic of the Hollywoodizing of human emotions. 1950John o' London's 7 July 419/1 The modern kind of road⁓house which might adopt a Spanish wear with self-conscious Hollywoodism. 1951F. Lawrence Let. 20 Jan. in Mem. & Corr. (1961) 298 We have a very ‘Hollywoodean’ place, not far from the Huxleys. 1957Essays in Crit. VII. 209 One scarcely needs to pursue the poem through the Hollywoodese of ‘our hearts go round’. 1959Encounter July 53/2 Some deep Hollywoodean reason. 1960House & Garden July 36 There is nothing Hollywoodian about Miss Caron's decorative indulgences. 1962Listener 6 Sept. 342/2 Those brawny, masculine, sunburnt figures of my youth..were Hollywoodish figures. 1963Sunday Express 24 Feb. 23/3 Nine Hours to Rama is a lamentable failure because it is permeated with Hollywoodisms. 1965New Statesman 19 Mar. 462/1 So far, only the cosmopolitan and European [behaviour] has been permitted..and that, all too often, heavily Hollywoodised. 1967Guardian 11 Apr. 5/1 Such incredible Hollywoodising of Malcolm X did much to create an atmosphere in which he could only be killed.
▸ Hollywood ending n. a film ending of a conventional type, characterized as sentimental, simplistic, or melodramatic, and often featuring an improbably positive outcome; freq. in extended use.
1929Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 27 Oct. s8/8 Everything seems proceeding [sic] towards a *Hollywood ending. 1933Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald (Electronic text) 1 Jan. Mr. Hemingway..had his own misgivings as release of the picture neared; with reports that the studio had supplied a..Hollywood ending. 1992Chicago Tribune 18 Dec. ii. 7/1 Cliff and his parents had never been close, so we could hardly expect some sort of Hollywood ending with his parents holding his hands and saying, ‘We're sorry; we love you’, as he gasped his last breath. 2002Empire Dec. 52/3 [It] has a flaw—a precision-tooled Hollywood ending which has all the sophistication of a Sesame Street homily. |