hooray for Hollywood

noun

A celebration of the US filmed entertainment industry.

Meanings

nounhooray for Hollywood (plural hoorays for Hollywood)

plural hoorays for Hollywood

  1. A celebration of the US filmed entertainment industry.

    […] and the hooray-for-Hollywood mentality of Americans generally.

    1994, Nina Mikkelsen, Virginia Hamilton, page 86
    3 more examples

    Kirk Stan founding artist member of the Contemporary gallery and Edward L. Carroll the Church Drama guild pitched a hooray for hollywood costume party

    1970 October 28, “After The Blaze.”, in St. Petersburg Times

    For the last three years, despite its high drama and hoorays for Hollywood, Oscar night has been sliding in the TV ratings

    1987 March 30, “FINAL COUNTDOWN TO ACADEMY AWARDS The Ratings Envelope, Please”, in Los Angeles Times

    Gottlieb and Kimball feature those songs that became the lullaby of Broadway, a hooray for Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley bullion.

    2001, New York Times Staff, The New York Times Book Reviews 2000, page 2176
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