Monday, October 1, 2007 – The Other Signs

In and around Billy Wilder Square (Sunset Boulevard and La Brea), you'll find the other Hollywood signs, not much like the big sign on the hill.  And you might know the 1950 Billy Wilder movie.  Louis B. Mayer after a screening told Wilder – "You have disgraced the industry that made and fed you. You should be tarred and feathered and run out of Hollywood." That didn't happen. 

Joe Gillis: You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.

Norma Desmond: I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

Local Hollywood cats –

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Technical Note:

Most of these photographs were shot with a Nikon D70 - using lens (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300mm telephoto, or after 5 June 2006, (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor, 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. They were modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0.  Earlier photography was done with a Sony Mavica digital still camera (MVC-FD-88) with built-in digital zoom.

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