Hollywood Sign homeowners. Many public space advocates have contended that the city should not restrict access points to the sign from the public, suggesting that other avenues be explored to alleviate the challenges that tourism presents to the surrounding communities. They have also argued that the streets, sign, and parkland are public property and should be accessible to all since they are funded by public tax dollars. An aerial tramway to the top of Mount Lee and the sign has been proposed numerous times. In June 2018, Warner Bros. proposed to fund an estimated $100 million tramway that would run from their
Hollywood on the Tiber epics began to decline following the commercial failure of "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (1964), although films in other genres such as David Lean's "Doctor Zhivago" (1965) continued to be profitable. In 2009 a documentary film "Hollywood on the Tiber" was released. It portrays Cinecittà and the various stars who worked there between 1950 and 1970. Hollywood on the Tiber Hollywood on the Tiber is a phrase used to describe the period in the 1950s and 1960s when the Italian capital of Rome emerged as a major location for international filmmaking attracting a large number of foreign productions to