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The Oscar buzz for Michelle Yeoh and her Best Actress nomination for Everything Everywhere All At Once has been a long time coming. After achieving stardom overseas in a series of Hong Kong action films in which she did many of her own stunts, Yeoh began to cross over in 1997 when she appeared opposite Pierce Brosnan…

Mayor Karen Bass rescinded former Mayor Eric Garcetti’s final executive directive that would have created a program to illuminate the Hollywood sign, a representative for Bass confirmed today. The Los Angeles Times first reported that Bass shut down the directive on Wednesday, citing a memo she wrote…

A team of painters were at work this week restoring the mega-photographed Hollywood sign, a mission that carries a perverse irony. All week I've been assaulted by studies and reports describing how Hollywood, the industry town, has essentially…

The Hollywood sign is getting a facelift today, with the iconic letters being altered to read “Rams House.” The move is meant to celebrate the Rams’ Super Bowl LVI victory over the Cincinnati Bengals last night. Crews began the work Monday morning to transform the sign. It will remain altered through Wednesday, L.A…

The nonprofit responsible for maintaining the Hollywood Sign announced today it completed the first stage of restoration work in preparation of the sign’s 100th anniversary in 2023. The Hollywood Sign Trust is working to restore the sign to the “pristine condition” achieved in its rebuild in 1978. The first phase of…

The iconic white-lettered Hollywood Sign is going the way of the Non Fungible Token. Sugar23 and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce have partnered to auction the digital art NFT with all proceeds to benefit the charitable initiatives undertaken by the Chamber, such as homelessness, education, diversity, and inclusion…

There was some drama up at the Hollywood sign today that seems to be a case of a good cause handled in a bad way. About 90 minutes ago, the landmark that looms over the city saw the W and the D attempted to be changed into Bs to read “Hollyboob.” After a near-instant splash on social media, the alteration saw the…

Residents in the hilly neighborhoods surrounding the Hollywood sign have long complained about congestion, traffic and parking woes due to the famed attraction, and Warner Bros. would like to come to the rescue. The studio is proposing to build an aerial tramway, dubbed the Hollywood Skyway, to take visitors to and…

Locals might take the Hollywood sign for granted, but tourists can’t get enough of it. And when the denizens of Selfie Nation are lining up their shots, they tend to tie up traffic. Even more than usual. So what to do? Well, a new report presented by District 4 Los Angeles City Councilman David Ryu has a potential…

In what feels like an extremely fitting and definitely hilarious start to 2017, a presumably pro-marijuana and pro-pun prankster last night somehow managed to sneak onto the mountaintop grounds of Los Angeles’ iconic Hollywood sign and alter it to read “Hollyweed”. Someone changed famed Hollywood Sign to read…