Map of Mulholland Drive (orange) and Mulholland Highway (brown) in Los Angeles County.

Mulholland Drive is a well-known road in Los Angeles, California named after engineer William Mulholland. A portion of it is also called Mulholland Highway. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (3322x1828, 401 KB) Summary Map of Mulholland Drive and Mulholland Highway in Los Angeles County, California. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (3322x1828, 401 KB) Summary Map of Mulholland Drive and Mulholland Highway in Los Angeles County, California. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... William Mulholland (1855–1935) was a prominent and influential water-services engineer in Southern California. ... Mulholland Highway is a road passing around Los Angeles. ...

The mostly two-lane, minor arterial road loosely follows the ridgeline of the Santa Monica Mountains and the Hollywood Hills, connecting two sections of the U.S. Route 101, and crossing Sepulveda Boulevard, Beverly Glen Boulevard, Coldwater Canyon, Laurel Canyon Boulevard, Nichols Canyon and Outpost. It offers spectacular views of both the Los Angeles basin and the San Fernando Valley. An arterial road is a high-capacity road which is just below a highway level of service. ... Santa Monica Mountains The Santa Monica Mountains are a low transverse range in southern California in the United States. ... The Hollywood Hills, an unofficial designation of part of the City of Los Angeles, California, are part of the eastern section of the low transverse range of the Santa Monica Mountains, which extends from the Los Feliz District and Hollywood, on the south side of the Valley, to Pacific Coast... This U.S. Highway article needs to be cleaned up to conform to both a higher standard of article quality and accepted design standards outlined in the WikiProject U.S. Highways. ... Sepulveda Boulevard is a street in Los Angeles, California. ... Beverly Glen Boulevard is one of three major routes that connects West Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley (the other two are the 405 Freeway and Sepulveda Boulevard ). It starts off at Pico Boulevard in West Los Angeles. ... Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles, California. ... Nichols Canyon is an area in the Hollywood Hills. ... Outpost may mean: a trading post is a place for trading goods, typically in a remote wilderness area Outpost (computer game) outpost (chess) Outpost. ... San Fernando Valley from southwestern edge. ...

The eastern terminus of Mulholland Drive is at its intersection with Cahuenga Boulevard at the Cahuenga Pass over the Santa Monica Mountains (at this point Cahuenga Boulevard runs parallel to the 101). The road continues to the west offering vistas of the Hollywood Sign, Downtown Los Angeles and then Burbank, Universal City and the rest of the San Fernando Valley. Cahuenga Pass (from the indigenous Tongva language) (el. ... Santa Monica Mountains The Santa Monica Mountains are a low transverse range in southern California in the United States. ... This article cites very few or no references or sources. ... Founded May 1, 1887 Incorporated July 8, 1911 General Information County Los Angeles County, California Latitude Longitude 34°1049 N 118°1942 W Area  - Total  - Water 45 km² (17. ... Universal City is the 415 acre (1. ...

The road winds along the top of the mountains until a few miles west of the 405 Freeway. At this point (the intersection with Encino Hills Drive) the drive becomes an unpaved route not open to motor vehicles. It is popular with hikers, horseback riders, and mountain bikers, and offers connections to other unpaved fire roads and mountain bike trails as well as a decommissioned Project Nike command post that has been turned into a Cold War memorial park . Interstate 405, colloquially referred to as The 405 (the four-oh-five), is one of the principal north-south highways in Southern California, and the major bypass of I-5 running through Southern California. ... A cross country mountain bike race A hardtail mountain bike A mountain bike or mountain bicycle (abbreviated MTB or ATB (All Terrain Bicycle)) is a bicycle designed for mountain biking, either on dirt trails or other unpaved environments. ... Plow cutting a firebreak in advance of a forest fire, South Carolina A firebreak is a gap in vegetation or other combustible material that is expected to slow or stop the progress of a wildfire. ... Launch of a Nike Zeus missile Project Nike was a US Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Labs, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. ... For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ...

The paved road begins again just east of Topanga Canyon Boulevard. Shortly thereafter, Mulholland Drive splits into Mulholland Drive and Mulholland Highway. Mullholland Drive terminates at the 101 where it becomes Valley Circle Boulevard. Mullholland Highway continues to the southwest until it terminates at California State Route 1 in Leo Carillo State Beach near the Pacific Ocean and the border of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. State Route 1, often called Highway 1, is a state highway that runs along a large length of the Pacific coast of the U.S. State of California. ... Leo Carrillo State Beach, Malibu, California is the closest Pacific Ocean beach to Thousand Oaks, California. ... Los Angeles County is a county in California and is the most populous county in the United States. ... Ventura County . ...

The main portion of the road, from the Cahuenga Pass in Hollywood westward for past the Sepulveda Pass was originally called Mulholland Highway and was opened in 1924. It was built by a consortium of Hollywood Hills landowners hoping to make money by bringing development to the Hollywood Hills. Mulholland Highway is a road passing around Los Angeles. ...

Mulholland Drive in popular culture

View of Hollywood and Los Angeles from Mulholland Drive.

Movies

• The movie Mulholland Drive was named after the road.
• It is also nicknamed "Bad Boy Drive" due to its illustrious residents Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, and Marlon Brando.
• In the last scene of Four Rooms, Bruce Willis alludes to it.
• In Hurlyburly Phil, the character played by Chazz Palminteri, dies in a car crash that takes place at Mullholland Drive.
• In Point Break a Mullholland Drive scenic turnout is the setting for a scene early in the movie where the bank robbers drop car is discovered.
• The movie Lost Highway features a scene on Mulholland Drive.
• Residents over the years have also included Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Julian Lennon, Red Foxx, Molly Ringwald, and Michael Eisner
• The movie Death Becomes Her features a brief sequence in which Bruce Willis and Goldie Hawn's characters plan Meryl Streep's character's death by sending her car off of a cliff on Mulholland Drive.
• The film True Romance has 2 scenes that take place along Mulholland Drive. In the first scene, the Producer, Lee Donowitz, is driving his white Porsche along Mulholland Dr. In the second scene, Lee's assistant Elliot is driving his Porsche along the same stretch of road.

Television

• In the 1950's TV show, "The Bob Cummings Show" (syndicated as "Love That Bob") playboy-photographer Bob frequently makes references to Mulholland Drive as the ultimate destination for himself and his date for the evening, almost always one of his many beautiful models. (For most of its history, Mulholland Drive was a notorious "parking spot" for illicit sex, due to its seclusion AND scenic views of the San Fernando Valley, until the parking areas were blocked off in the early 1990's, allegedly because they constituted a fire hazard.)

Music and Art

In music, it is mentioned in Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'," R.E.M.'s "Electrolite," Felix Da Housecat's "Everyone Is Someone in L.A.", Razorlight's "Los Angeles Waltz", Lamb of God's "Forgotten (Lost Angels)", Frank Black's "Ole Mulholland", and Poe's "Hey Pretty". Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (976x1296, 877 KB) February 06 photographer Eino Mustonen I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (976x1296, 877 KB) February 06 photographer Eino Mustonen I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Mulholland Drive (often abbreviated Mulholland Dr.) is a 2001 Academy Award-nominated psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch. ... John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937), better known as Jack Nicholson or The Jack is an iconic, three-time Academy Award and seven time Golden Globe winning American method actor known for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. ... Henry Warren Beatty (born March 30, 1937), better known as Warren Beatty, is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. ... Marlon Brando, Jr. ... Four Rooms is a 1995 anthology film telling four stories set in a Los Angeles hotel on New Years Eve. ... Convenience store window poster featuring Willis, Prague, Czech Republic (2002) Bruce Willis (born Walter Bruce Willis on March 19, 1955) is a two-time Emmy Award-winning, Golden Globe-winning American actor and singer. ... Hurlyburly (1984) is a play written by David Rabe. ... Chazz Palminteri (born May 15, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and writer, best known for his performances in The Usaul Suspects, A Bronx Tale and Mulholland Falls. ... —:For a surfing term, see Point break Point Break is a 1991 film starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, and directed by Kathryn Bigelow. ... Lost Highway is an English language 1997 psychological thriller directed by David Lynch. ... Thomas Tom Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor, Emmy winning director, voice-over artist and movie producer who starred in family-friendly and screwball comedies before achieving notable success as a dramatic actor in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. ... Convenience store window poster featuring Willis, Prague, Czech Republic (2002) Bruce Willis (born Walter Bruce Willis on March 19, 1955) is a two-time Emmy Award-winning, Golden Globe-winning American actor and singer. ... John Charles Julian Lennon known universally as Julian Lennon, (born April 8, 1963 in Liverpool, England) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and first son of Beatle John Lennon and the only child of his first wife Cynthia Lennon. ... Foxx as Fred on Sanford and Son John Elroy Sanford, better known as Redd Foxx (December 9, 1922 - October 11, 1991) was an American comedian best known for his starring role on the television sitcom Sanford and Son. ... Molly K. Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Death Becomes Her is a 1992 black comedy fantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep and Bruce Willis. ... Convenience store window poster featuring Willis, Prague, Czech Republic (2002) Bruce Willis (born Walter Bruce Willis on March 19, 1955) is a two-time Emmy Award-winning, Golden Globe-winning American actor and singer. ... Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. ... Mary Louise Streep, mostly known as Meryl Streep (born June 22, 1949) is a two-time Academy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, two-time SAG-winning, Grammy Award-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. ... True Romance is an American motion picture released in 1993, directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary. ... Thomas Tom Earl Petty (born October 20, 1950) is a popular American musician, known for his album-oriented, classicist rock n roll. ... Free Fallin is the opening track from Tom Pettys 1989 solo album, Full Moon Fever. ... 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The artist David Hockney painted Mullholland: The Road to the Studio in 1980. We Two Boys Together Clinging, 1961. ...

Books

The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard metaphorically describes Mulholland Drive as the "entry point for extraterrestrials" in his book America. Michael Connelly refered to it as the "spine" of Los Angeles in his short story Mullholland Drive that was published in the anthology LA Noir edited by Denise Hamilton. Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 – March 6, 2007) (IPA pronunciation: [1]) was a French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer. ... Michael Connelly (born July 21, 1956) is an American author of detective novels, notably those featuring Hieronymus Harry Bosch. ...

Other

There is also a ride at Disneyland's California Adventure called "Mulholland Madness" (previously, "Mulholland Highway"). Disneys California Adventure is a Disney theme park in Anaheim, California, adjacent to Disneyland and part of the larger Disneyland Resort. ... Entrance to Mulholland Madness at Disneys California Adventure. ... Mulholland Highway is a road passing around Los Angeles. ...

In the hot-rod-themed videogame Street Rod II, the player can challenge computer opponents to a mountain-side road race called Mullholland Drive, but the design of the track doesn't represent the actual road: it is randomized for each new game. T-bucket hot rod Modern look of traditional 32 roadster. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... For the Transformers character, see Hot Rod (Transformers). ... Random redirects here. ...

In Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (video-game) there is a town named Mulholland, and a road representing Mulholland drive which is near the Vinewood sign representing the Hollywood lettering.