“Hollywoodland,” an exhibition on the Jewish founders of the film industry that opened at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on May 19, has drawn criticism for perpetuating antisemitic tropes. “While we acknowledge the value in confronting Hollywood’s problematic past, the despicable double standard of the Jewish Founders exhibit, blaming only the Jews for that problematic past, is unacceptable and, …
Los Angeles — you’re gonna need a bigger cake. In its real estate days, the sign must have looked as tacky as a roadside honky-tonk, each letter framed in light bulbs that, as I’ve read, sequentially flashed “Holly” then “Wood” then “Land.” Today its singular letters, with the snipped-off corners of its D and Os, are so distinctive that you …
