The Sunday Good Time Blog

Washington (ANI): Actress Penelope Cruz is still haunted by the dark days of her initial Hollywood career. The 34-year-old actress revealed that she hates to revisit Los Angeles hangout the Sunset Marquis, where she stayed with two stray cat pets while shooting for her first English-language film The Hi-Lo Country.

The Volver star said that she felt miserable and lonely. “Many times I would pick up the phone and realise there was no one to call because I didn’t have any friends,” Contactmusic quoted her as saying. “The experience means a trip back to the Sunset Marquis to meet friends or directors is never one she enjoys. “I cannot even look at those rooms now. I have a weird physical reaction. Everything comes back from those years,” she added.

Summer in Hollywood, LA means that once again you can enjoy a variety of movies beneath the stars. Drive-in movies have become more difficult to find in recent years, and yet nostalgia remains for watching films on outdoor movie screens in the summertime. Luckily, today’s technology makes it easier than ever for party organizers to organize the outdoor movie show. This type of event is perfect for a personal family and friends, or a neighborhood get together under the stars.

Hollywood Outdoor movies have become the hook to draw people to tired business districts and public spaces. “They’re the contemporary iteration of the drive-in,” said Bob Deutsch, whose outdoor movie business has more
than tripled in the three years since he launched it. “The growth rate,” he said, “has been phenomenal.”

The rise in urban movies by moonlight came just as suburban drive-ins were being declared extinct. In 1958, more than 5,000 drive-ins dotted the United States, but the cable and video revolution had put all but a few hundred out of business by about 1985.

In the late ’90s, city planners and others became intrigued with the idea of outdoor movies as a way to bring crowds back to neglected downtowns, but most had imagined such events to be too costly. The massive screens required thousands of dollars’ worth of rented scaffolding.

Innovation, however, was underway. In San Jose, Silicon Valley, dot-comers were rigging up after-hours movies with DVDs, laptops and MS Office PowerPoint projectors. Brand-new “micro-cinemas” were appearing in bars, on college campuses and on rooftops in Los Angeles, CA.

Today, Hollywood Outdoor Movies brings good old tradition in a hi-tech wrapping, offering professionalism, customer service, and the highest quality equipment available for you to enjoy spectacular outdoor movies under the stars and feeling community togetherness. “This is like something you’d see in, well, the movies,” said Rebecca Atwater, a 44-year-old firefighter, “where a bunch of strangers end up in some barren place and actually end up having a good time.”