In less than a century Hollywood has grown from a toffeenosed village to a town as famous as New York Rome or Paris And physically of course it has changed beyond recognition a century ago you would walk through orange groves to the village store Yet in a way it is still a village  parochial with limited horizons  just a little bit of Los Angeles For all who live and work in it there is one topic of conversation  films how much they have made who is dating whom whos been stabbed in the back who is attached to which project Those who have been successful often try to get away to work there but live somewhere else Yet it is still the one place in the world to which almost everyone who is anyone in showbusiness and plenty who agent eventually gravitates