Horrible Hollywood: Difference between revisions

 

SIDENOTE: This trope only applies to Hollywood, California, not [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_(disambiguation) any of the other Hollywoods.]

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* ''[[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 ''[[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...