Status Updates From Eve's Hollywood

— and still brings respectable families to a hot, windy intersection in August to sigh with unnoticed despondence, "
... Well... here we are
... Hollywood and Vine."

Though I have no kids and Hollywood doesn't exist, I firmly believe, however, that it did exist. And like Rome, we are living amidst the fallen columns and clothes-lined courtyards, in the ruins of an empire of the self-enchanted which was once, briefly, more devastating than Caesar's —