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He told my colleague Tom Curwen, “I’ve often thought that we should get rid of the palm trees and the Hollywood sign, because as icons of the city, they keep us in a state of arrested psychological development. Maybe they had a place, but now they are emblems of a cliched sensibility, of Los Angeles as some sort of dreamland, that doesn’t capture or express the depth of this city, its uniqueness, its complexity, its messy, sprawling beauty.”

There’s no shortage of films that tackle the tragedy-ridden life of painter Frida Kahlo, whose image has now become clichéd iconography.

This is contemporary sound to dispel clichéd fears of abrasive modernism while never cheaply pandering to mass appeal.

Too often, he found, they relied on "clichéd", post-colonial motifs.

"I know it’s a bit of a cliched word but it does provide a little bit of closure too, I guess," she said.