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Video premiere: Watch an animated Loudon Wainwright III wrestle with demons while holed up at the Chateau Marmont in "Hollywood Hopeful"
Thousands of songs have been set in Los Angeles over the decades, and the most famous among them have become anthems: Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’,” Dr. Dre’s “Nuthin’ But a G Thang,” the Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” and Thee Midniters’ “Whittier Blvd.” among them.
Lesser known is the gem “Hollywood Hopeful” by the singer-songwriter-actor Loudon Wainwright III, which has just been given a new animated video that the Times is premiering here. Originally released in 1975, the song is part of Wainwright’s new oddballs-and-outtakes collection “Years in the Making.” The set gathers work from across Wainwright’s four-plus decades as a professional entertainer. “I am a full fledged, grown-up adult/I'm trying make a dent, trying to get a result,” Wainwright sings to open the autobiographical song. “I'm holed up in a Hollywood hotel suite/Tequila to drink and avocado to eat.”
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