Hollywood : the movie lover's guide : the ultimate insider tour of movie L.A. /
Richard Alleman.
- 1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed.
- New York : Broadway Books, 2005.
- xiii, 495 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Rev. ed. of: The movie lover's guide to Hollywood. Includes index.
Hollywood: birth of a boulevard -- Hollywood: beyond the boulevard -- Hollywood: the factory town -- The Wilshire District: Main Street, L.A. -- Los Feliz/Silverlake/Echo Park: the original "Hollywood" -- Downtown Los Angeles: the first L.A. -- West Hollywood: border town -- Beverly Hills: Hollywood's golden ghetto -- Beverly Hills: star houses -- The fashionable westside: between Beverly Hills and Santa Monica -- Culver City: "The heart of screenland" -- Venice/Santa Monica/Malibu/Long Beach: Hollywood by the sea -- San Fernando Valley: the big spread -- Pasadena/Altadena/Glendale: another country.
The classic guide to who-did-what-where in Los Angeles, on- and off-screen, including: Film & TV locations: the Hollywood Hills house where Barbara Stanwyck seduced Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity ... the funky apartment building where William Holden lived in Sunset Boulevard ... the exotic Frank Lloyd Wright mansion that's housed everyone from Harrison Ford in Blade Runner to David Boreanaz on TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer ... the landmark Art Deco former department store that has doubled for a glamorous hotel in Topper (1936) and an elegant nightclub in The Aviator (2004) ... the Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street houses ... the Seinfeld and Alias apartment buildings ... the Six Feet Under funeral home ... The Brady Bunch and Happy Days houses ... the Charlie's Angels office ... the real Melrose Place ... and many more VIP tours: from legendary studios like Warner Bros., MGM (now Sony Pictures), and Universal to movie-star homes like Barbra Streisand's former Malibu compound' Crime scenes and scandal spots: the driveway where Sal Mineo was murdered, the Nicole Brown Simpson condo, the Sharon Tate estate, Marilyn Monroe's last address, the Beverly Hills Mansion where Bugsy Siegal was rubbed out'the Hollywood hotel where Janice Joplin O.D.'d' Plus: Remarkable new museums ... Superstar cemeteries ... Historic hotels ... Hip clubs and restaurants ... Fabulous restored movie palaces' Spectacular movie star mansions and chAteau apartments' Taking movie lovers behind the gates of the exclusive, often hidden world of Tinsel Town, Hollywood: The Movie Lover's Guide is the ultimate insider's guide to L.A.'s reel attractions.
0767916352 (alk. paper)
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