Image: satellite view of the Hollywood sign, found on Wikipedia.
Los Angeles is a cruel, heartbreaking desert of a place, infested by nightmarish egos barely organised into human form. The air shimmers with the lost ideals of talented people while the cafes hum with hopeless dreams.
It is also one of the creative centres of the known universe and the Australian screen sector orbits between home and Hollywood. Australians in Film binds them together at the US end.
