Our Hollywood

Although I live in Los Angeles where all the glamour and glitz with gossip occurs, I have the tendency of not caring much for most of the "Hollywood world." My friends freak out when they see me with any gossip magazine aside from GQ that is. The Hollywood that I am familiar with is far from the glamour and glitz, but I won't go as far as to say it's free of gossip :)

Anyhow, today was my sister's prom. I took her to the nail salon then hair than make up... You get the idea. Either way, I was waiting for her to get all dolled up and and the boredom forced me to read the magazines dumped on the table.

Apparently, Prince William is still single and didn't marry the girl that he was with for three years. There were tons of pictures of that poor girl all over every single magazine :(

There was tons of news on Lindsey Lohan, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.... But inside alll that news about all these awesomely wealthy celebs of Hollywood, I also found a really cool celeb in the million pages of gossip.

There is an actress named Mary Lynn Rajskub -not a familiar name, but she's been in tons of movies (the pic above) - and this is what she had to say about being cool in Hollywood:

I saw Paris Hilton and she talked about all these cool clubs she goes to, like
Hyde and Suede. I've never heard of these places, so I felt like an idiot. But I
do some Hollywood stuff that people would think is cool... Sometimes I hand out
at the Armenian Christian center. We pray in Armenian. It's hot.

I totally think she's cool.... :) She is talking about the Hollywood we all know.

When I moved to US nearly eight years ago, my new home became Hollywood. I had seen the Palm Trees, the Beverly Hills sign, the Hollywood sign million times on TV when I lived in Yerevan, however, the depiction of Hollywood that lacked was the Hollywood that is ours.

It's the Hollywood with many new immigrants, it's the Hollywood with Baghdik's store, it's the Hollywood where there are more Nparatouns than markets, more food stamps than dollar bills, the Hollywood where you'll find more people who speak Armenian than English, it's the Hollywood that we proudly call Little Armenia.

I completely give huge brownie points to Mary Lynn for shining a tiny light on the Hollywood that has become home to so many of our people.