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“Non- Traditional Hollywood!”
Hollywood! by Dagoberto Gilb is a story of a family man name Luis, who brought his family on vacation to California in the winter. Luis took his family Santa Monica beach, but his wife Marta wanted to go to Disney Land. When they get to the beach, Luis takes his son Ramón, down to the water and was giving him a lesson about the seagulls. Luis and his son went back up to where the mother was, Ramón tells his mother and father, that he is hungry and wanted a hot dog but Luis instanced to get the sandwiches they brought. As they are eating the sandwiches, the seagulls came and Luis and Ramón feed the seagulls. Luis takes his attention of the seagulls and recognized a commercial being shot. He directed his family

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