glitz

I worked there for a couple of years, and very quickly realized that the glitz and glamour that you see on TV is not exactly the reality.

What else, I wondered, lay hidden in the glitz?

The glitz and glamour of the Strictly ballroom or the Emerald City in Wicked seem like a world away from a south London trading estate.

"Filmmakers have been progressively lured by tax incentives that come from shooting movies in other parts of the world, and the Los Angeles film industry has lost its glitz and glamour."

Viewed from Orange County, L.A. is the flagship of the fleet of the absurd, the dreamland of pitchmen and grifters, the progenitor of wicked Hollywood glitz and drive-by shootings.