“Los Angeles is everywhere. It is global in the fullest sense of the word. Nowhere is this more evident than in its cultural projection and ideological reach, its almost ubiquitous screening of itself as a rectangular dream machine for the world...There is of course that far reaching dream-machine and its launching pads, transmitting its visual image and evocative sounds of ‘good-life’ announced on the facade of City Hall. But the entertainment industry in itself is a facade… .”

                                                        Edward Soja