Black holes form at the very beginning of new galaxies and at their center. If there can be such a glow at the center, that is because the dark and intense concentration of black holes attracts stars which rush into its vortex, and one last sign of their presence is their intense brilliance before they disappear. And even Hollywood and Vine, the geographical and cultural center of Hollywood, has vanished into memory-lane.
Nothing escapes their black costumes.
For after all Hollywood has long since left California and is now to be found in the spiral arms of distant galaxies. There is nothing left at Hollywood and Vine for it is now part of the nebulae that we all turn into each night. Nothing in the world can escape the gravitational pull of the old Hollywood films, but like the random escape velocities of the black hole we are perodically ejected into the future star worlds. In his book, Le Parasite , the French philospher, Michel Serres, claims that the end of the feast is always signalled by the return of the animal kingdom. Perhaps that is what is so culturally significant about the invasion now of Hollywood by rats.