TMZ n.— «TMZ, named for the 30-mile zone around Hollywood that is mentioned in some film-union contracts, will mix breaking entertainment news and gossip with a database of information and video about celebrities.» —“Internet Service...
baseballer n.— «Rumors of superstar performers and executives who have become “baseballers,” as free-base users are known, are rampant in the Hollywood hills.» —“Free base: The new fad drug that can really blow your...
heroic dose n.— «Rabe’s new hit concerned Eddie and Mickey, two pedal-to-the metal casting directors whose condo in the Hollywood hills is a kind of divorcees’ club, run on heroic doses of liquor and cocaine.» —by Richard T...
hocker n.— «Morros and Finston, he afterward wrote Copland, were “political hockers—and the atmosphere they gave off is not fragrant. (But I’m afraid that is 95% of Hollywood.)”» —by Howard Pollack Aaron...
heart-sink n.— «Imagine the heart-sink that comes to an adult star when he receives the script and finds himself teamed for scene after scene with Deanna Durgin or Freddie Bartholomew.» —“In Hollywood” by Jimmy...
rocket surgery n.— «“In a way, movie making is rocket surgery,” Mr. Gordon says of the Hollywood melange that beguiles him so. “It’s a very quirky art form that intersects with business.”» —“On Sunday In Boot Camp...