In the corridor, a dozen or more sprightly, dolled-up Hollywood hopefuls form a line, waiting nervously to be screened in a neighbouring room for a would-be blockbuster.

However, it is Hollywood hopefuls like the English makeup artist who buy most of the merchandise.

He would like to work for the Broderbund department that assesses proposed programs, much as a movie-studio reader judges the screenplays of Hollywood hopefuls.

I don't blame the Hollywood hopefuls for cashing in on the sudden attention (Lynn Hirschberg, Sept. 5).

Although the film was finished, the cost finally pulled Digital Productions under - together with other Hollywood hopefuls - in the big US computer animation crash of 1986.

What would Griffin Mill, so jaded when it comes to Hollywood hopefuls and their story ideas, make of "The Player"?

From the balcony, we gaze out over a cross-section of Hollywood hopefuls, struggling actors and models dancing self-consciously to funk and disco against the fez decor.

Hollywood hopefuls don't get much more hopeful than this.

For those two minutes all the Hollywood hopefuls wanted nothing more than to become a V.J.

In the program, which mixes a scripted story with real-life interviews with Hollywood hopefuls, Ms. Wax pretends to try to break into the big time.