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Leo Braudy is university professor at the University of Southern California and the author of
The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History
and
The Hollywood Sign
, from which this article is adapted, among other books.
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A history of the Hollywood sign: How an advertisement for a housing development came to represent the movies.
Leo Braudy
March 17, 2011
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