Diaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

El Hollywood was Beli's first real club. Imaginate: in those days El Hollywood was the It place to be in Bani, it was Alexander, Cafe Atlantico, and Jet Set rolled into one. The lights, the opulent decor, the guapos in the fine threads, the women striking their best bird-of-paradise poses, the band upon the stage like a visitation from a world of rhythm, the dancers so caught up in the planting of heel you would have thought they were bidding farewell to death itself- it was all here.