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When you think of Hollywood and other places within the entertainment industry, as well as the stars that inhabit them, you think of glamorous men and women who create the magic you see in movies and television, right?

 

SIDENOTE: This trope only applies to Hollywood, California, not [[wikipedia:Hollywood (disambiguation)|any of the other Hollywoods.]]

 

* In the world of ''[[Nana]]'', assorted record companies are evil and probably Yakuza, all performers have issues ranging from [[Parental Abandonment]] to being in teenage prostitution rings to drug addiction, and they are surrounded by stalkers.

* This is lampooned in the [[Gag Dub]] of ''[[Duel Masters]]'':

* ''[[S.O.B.]]'': The title is an abbreveation the term one character uses to describe how Hollywood operates: Standard Operational Bullshit.

* ''[[Film/Americas Sweethearts|Americas Sweethearts]]'': Mostly focused on the tropes surrounding celebrity romances and an agent exploiting it for movie promotion.

* ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]'' portrays Hollywood as a weirdly glamourous and seriously fucked up place which attracts the damaged and disturbed.

{{quote|Harry: It's abandonment, it's abuse, it's, "My uncle put his ping-ping in my papa!"... and then they all come out here! I swear to God, it's like somebody took America by the East Coast, and shook it, and all the normal girls managed to hang on.}}

* ''[[The West Wing]]'', of all things, touches on this every so often. C.J Cregg's backstory involves her working as a publicist for a selection of spoilt and neurotic Hollywood types who throw tantrums if they get placed lower on a magazine's 'who's most influential in Hollywood' list; a job she hates and considers meaningless (and eventually gets fired from). Another episode has the President go to a fundraising event in Beverly Hills swarming with these types; he doesn't have fun. A few other episodes also have mentions of this kind of thing.

* Played with in the ''[[Castle]]'' episode "One Life To Lose"; the behind the scenes environment of the popular soap opera isn't exactly free of intrigue, bitchiness and people sleeping with and / or hating each other and playing their own agendas, but it's no worse than some of the other walks of life the characters have entered.

* In one episode of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Eric goes to Hollywood be a cast member of the [[Self-Parody]] show ''Kid Gets Acquainted with the Universe'', he finds out that the actors on the show are either [[jerkass]]es or highly neurotic, the so-called "best writers in town" are actually small children, and the scripts are [[Recycled Script|recycled]] many times and full of [[Stylistic Suck]].

* In ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'', Hollywood, Broadway and the TV industry are all full of people lying, cheating, sleeping around to get ahead, and above all, plotting to kill each other. Admittedly, this doesn't distinguish them from ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'''s portrayal of newspapers, book publishing, computer firms, toy companies...