In Rocketeer, the Disney (or was it Touchstone) movie starring Bill Campbell and Timothy Dalton, the Hollywoodland sign is featured...until a blimp crashes on the land part... Andrew At 01:05 PM 7/16/97 EST, you wrote: >------- > >I am doing some research on the HOLLYWOOD or HOLLYWOODLAND sign as a >sort of icon for Hollywood--the movie industry and its milieu. As >part of that research I am looking for movies and novels that contain >significant scenes involving the sign (in addition to the hundreds of >films that simply use a shot of the sign to establish place). Off >the top of my head all I can think of is The Couch Trip in which >Walter Matthau threatens to jump from the sign and one of James >Ellroy's Los Angeles novels which works the razing of the "LAND" into >its plot. I'd be grateful for your collective wisdom. > >Thanks, > >Chris Ames >English Dept >Agnes Scott College >141 East College Ave >Decatur GA 30030 >[log in to unmask] > >---- >Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the >University of Alabama. > > ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.sa.ua.edu/screensite