Singer: ♪ Just do you ♪ ♪ ♪ David Rubenstein: The Hollywood sign symbolizes the American movie industry and mass entertainment. Not very glamorous, but the life, it's pretty spectacular. Yeah, I can say that, even though I know it's a dog eat dog, scratch and claw, and. Woman 4: The Hollywood sign symbolizes the dream, the fantasy, the perception of so much glamor. Man 4: Would we be as famous without Hollywood? It's like so many things in Los Angeles, giant things that will draw people in. Man 3: The Hollywood sign- the Hollywoodland sign, I should say-was supposed to be impermanent, just was an advertisement.
Man 2: The larger history of the sign is completely intertwined with real estate subdivisions and real estate speculation. I still don't know the story behind the sign. Woman 3: I've lived here for nearly 20 years. It was always there, seemingly always covered by haze. Hollywood is not Hollywood, which just shows you how Hollywood is.
Hollywood is not-I mean, anyone who goes to, like, actual Hollywood, that is not Hollywood. Woman 3: The Hollywood sign, it's a potent symbol of whatever Hollywood is. They're on the sign, and then there's a serial killer. Woman 2: Wasn't it "Day of the Locust" where she went off there? There's not that many cities in the world where magic really is created, and that sign is all of those things. ♪ Woman: That Hollywood sign is the most famous sign in the entire world. Singer: ♪ Yeah, they want something brand-new. ♪ This is the West Coast version of the Statue of Liberty, right? Funding is provided by The Zohar and Lisa Ben-Dov Family through the Luminescence Foundation. Gary Lionelli is composer for the original score. Jonathan Scheinberg, Prisca Pointdujour, Sam Lacroix, Alexandra Nikolchev, Sally Rosenthal, Matthew Horovitz, Lizzie Mulvey and Ken Levis are producers for Show of Force. Chris Ullman is producer for DMR Productions. Bill Gardner is the executive in charge for PBS.
Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre, Joshua Bennett and Sam Pollard are executive producers for Show of Force. Rubenstein is the host and executive producer. Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories with David Rubenstein is a production of Show of Force, DMR Productions, and WETA Washington, D.C. Rubenstein is the host and executive … More
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