A long time ago, my mom's friend Bev gave me some program with "Hollywood" in the name as a gift. I can't find the name or any mention of it online with the little I remember. It let you write a script using preset characters, sound, effects, and music, and the characters talked with text-to-speech software. I thought it was pretty neat for 1997, but now it's like a sillier, less featured, non-web version of
http://www.xtranormal.com/.