HOLLYWOOD AIMS FOR TOP BILLING; THINGS ARE LOOKING UP FOR TINSELTOWN, AND A NEW TOUR AND FILM SHOW IT OFF.Byline: Carol Bidwell Staff Writer Hollywood isn't just a place. It's a state of mind. It's Charlie Chaplin and Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford and Clara Bow, Clark Gable and Greta Garbo. It's the Keystone Kops Keystone Kops the slapstick film comedians specializing in wild chases (1912-1920). [Am. Cinema: Halliwell, 399] See : Zaniness racing up Hollywood Boulevard For uses other than the original street, see Hollywood Boulevard (disambiguation). Hollywood Boulevard is a boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, beginning at Sunset Boulevard in the east and running northwest to Vermont Avenue, where it straightens out and stars stepping in wet cement. It's tennis at Pickfair, premieres at Grauman's and dancing at Ciro's. And you can see it all - put in perspective by time - in two new attractions that showcase the glitter that was Hollywood, before the drugs and the chaos of the 1960s sent Tinseltown sliding downhill into the 1990s tackiness it's only now recovering from. The two projects - a walking tour of historic sites along a being-rejuvenated Hollywood Boulevard and a new hourlong documentary about the movies' hometown - are part of an attempt to reinvent Hollywood for movie fans the world over, said Leron Gubler, head of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. ``We got word from several countries, like Japan, that they thought we (Hollywood) were closed down because of all the new construction,'' Gubler said. ``Nothing could be further from the truth. We're open for business, and we want to help people enjoy coming here.'' Todd McCarthy, writer and co-director of ``Forever Hollywood,'' said the film - which is a history of Hollywood seen through the eyes of today's stars - from Daffy Duck Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. Daffy was the first of the new breed of "screwball" characters that emerged in the 1930s to supplant traditional everyman characters, such as and Clint Eastwood to Gloria Stuart and Kevin Spacey spac·ey adj. Slang Variant of spacy. Adj. 1. spacey - stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug spaced-out, spacy unconventional - not conventional or conformist; "unconventional life styles" - has a similar welcoming purpose. ``It was really meant to fit in with what is going on now, which is the renovation of Hollywood Boulevard, and to give people a sense of history of the place. Hollywood was always this magnet for people. It made you feel like anything could happen and your dreams could come true.'' Part of today's dream is to return some of the glamour and the excitement to the movie capital. The under-construction TrizecHahn development, between Highland Avenue and Orange Drive, wrapped around the venerable Chinese Theatre Chinese theatre has a long and complex history. Today it is often called Chinese opera although this normally refers specifically to the popular form known as Beijing Opera; there have been many other forms of theatre in China. , will include not only a 640-room hotel, movie theaters, restaurants and shops, but will also provide a classy theater that will become the new home of the Academy Awards ceremonies. To make it easier to visit Hollywood, there'll be a 3,000-space underground parking garage and the development's own subway station. A second subway station has already opened on Argyle Avenue, just a block east of the famous intersection of Hollywood and Vine. Tacky souvenir and sex shops are closing their doors, and new restaurants and shops are moving in. To Gubler, it's a sign that Hollywood is about to enter a new era. ``It's coming back, and it's exciting to see it.'' There are 46 stops along the walking tour, which covers a 25-block loop along Hollywood Boulevard, a stroll that takes about two hours and 15 minutes to complete. Add another hour to see the film, a stop for a sandwich and maybe an amble amble a slower, non-racing version of pace gait in horses. broken amble has many characteristics of the amble but there are four beats to the gait with each foot contacting the ground independently. Called also single-foot. through a movie-themed bookstore or a visit to the Hollywood Wax Museum The Hollywood Wax Museum is located in the heart of the tourist district of Hollywood, California, USA, at 6767 Hollywood Blvd. The museum, the brainchild of entrepreneur Spoony Singh, was opened in 1965,[1] , and you've made a day of it while gaining a new perspective on the movies and where they were made. The walking tour and the new film were unveiled with virtually no fanfare right before the holidays. It's been difficult for the tour, especially, to sink into people's consciousness because its landmark pointers - orange signs sporting vintage photos and brief histories - are up in the air on poles. That's a liability on the Hollywood Walk of Fame The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a pavement along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, which is embedded with more than 2,000 five-pointed stars featuring the names of not only human celebrities but fictional characters honored by , where visitors walk with their heads down heads down - [Sun] Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed. See also hack mode and larval stage, although this mode is hardly confined to fledgling hackers. , searching for the names of their favorite actors on the pavement. ``We do have to educate people to look up,'' Gubler said wryly. ``It's a challenge. But it's better than it was at first. The city wanted the signs 9 feet above the sidewalk. We at least got the OK to lower them to 8 feet.'' Many of the landmarks along the route, sadly, are long gone, but there are several stops that are much as they were decades ago. In addition to the Hollywood Roosevelt (where the first Oscars were handed out in 1929), Musso & Frank (built in 1919, the town's oldest continuously operating eatery) and the newly renovated Egyptian Theatre (where first-run movies are still shown nightly), sightseers can enjoy seeing the venerable Chinese Theatre (home of those famous hand- and footprints), the El Capitan El Cap·i·tan A peak, 2,308.5 m (7,569 ft) high, in the Sierra Nevada of central California. Its dramatic exposed monolith rises some 1,098 m (3,600 ft) above the floor of the Yosemite Valley. Theatre (where ``Citizen Kane'' premiered in 1941, now a Disney movie house) and the Pantages Theatre There are multiple venues named the Pantages Theatre: Canada
Legitimate theater is live performance that relies entirely on diegetic elements, with actors performing through speech and natural , said to be haunted by the ghost of onetime owner Howard Hughes). Two now-empty historic sites will soon come to life again. The Pig & Whistle cafe (the town's first kids-welcome restaurant, where regulars included Spencer Tracy, Shirley Temple, Loretta Young and Barbara Stanwyck) next door to the Egyptian Theatre will reopen within a few months as a Scottish pub. The Max Factor Building (where Rita Hayworth Rita Hayworth (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), was an American actress who reached fame during the 1940s as the era's leading sex symbol. Although there was prejudice against Hispanic actors at the time, Hayworth is now widely regarded to be one of the first , Ava Gardner and other movie glamour girls became even more beautiful) is scheduled to reopen later this year as the Hollywood History Museum, along with an updated Chasen's restaurant. Movie history buffs will also get a kick out of seeing where famous places once stood, like the home of C.C. Brown's ice cream parlor Ice cream parlors are places that sell ice cream and frozen yogurt to consumers. Ice cream is normally sold in two varieties in these stores: soft-serve ice cream (normally with just chocolate, vanilla, and "twist", a mix of the two), and hard-packed, which has an assortment of (where the hot fudge Hot Fudge, a.k.a. The Hot Fudge Show, was an American children's television series that aired in syndication from 1976 to 1980. The series was produced in Detroit at WXYZ-TV. sundae was invented), the Montmartre Cafe (where Rudolph Valentino Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor. He was born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi in Castellaneta, Italy, to a middle-class family. In the 1920s, Valentino was known as a Latin sex symbol. tangoed and Joan Crawford was ``discovered'' dancing the Charleston) and the Vine Street
The Brown Derby was a landmark restaurant in Los Angeles frequented by celebrities during the Golden Age of Hollywood. It was an example of novelty architecture, known for being physically shaped like a brown derby hat. (where owner Robert Cobb invented the Cobb Salad and Clark Gable proposed to Carole Lombard in booth No. 54). Many of the sites may have fallen victim to the wrecking ball or the developer, but after you see ``Forever Hollywood'' and stroll Hollywood Boulevard, you can almost see the limos line up for a premiere and the stars parading past the klieg lights. Hollywood is ready for its close-up - again! GET A FOOTHOLD IN HOLLYWOOD "Walk the Walk: The Hollywood Walk of Fame and Walking Tour," a fold-out brochure available free at most Hollywood businesses, details the route of the new tour and gives historic tidbits TidBITS is an award-winning electronic newsletter and web site dealing primarily with Apple Computer and Macintosh-related topics. Internet publication TidBITS has been published weekly since April 16, 1990, which makes it one of the longest running Internet publications. about each stop. Also included are the locations of more than 2,000 Walk of Fame pavement stars of actors, singers, moviemakers and others. Copies of the tour brochure are also available at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (7000 Hollywood Blvd.), which has a free Hollywood mini- museum on its second-floor mezzanine, and at the Janes House (6541 Hollywood Blvd., formerly a school for the children of movie luminaries that included Cecil B. DeMille Noun 1. Cecil B. DeMille - United States film maker remembered for his extravagant and spectacular epic productions (1881-1959) Cecil Blount DeMille, DeMille , Thomas Ince, Jesse Lasky, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), now the Hollywood Visitor Information Center. For more information about the walking tour, call the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, (323) 469-8311. For more information about other things to see in Hollywood, call the Visitors Center at (213) 689-8822, Ext. 331. "Forever Hollywood," the American Cinematheque's film tracing Hollywood's past and what it's meant to generations _ including Steven Spielberg, Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening and others _ runs four times a day (11 a.m., 12:30, 2 and 3:30 p.m.). Tuesday through Saturday at the newly renovated Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. (the site of Hollywood's first movie premiere in 1922). Admission is $7 for adults and $5 for students, seniors and children under 12. For information, call (323) 461-3456. 1. Chinese Theatre, 6625 Hollywood Blvd. 2. Site of Hollywood Hotel, Hollywood Boulevard at Highland Avenue. 3. Musso and Frank Grill, 6667 Hollywood Blvd. 4. Capitol Records building, 1750 Vine St. 5. Site of the Brown Derby, 1628 Vine St. 6. Roosevelt Hotel, 7000 Hollywood Blvd. 7. El Capitan Theatre (pictured on cover) 6834 Hollywood Blvd. 8. Max Factor Building, 1668 Highland Ave. 9. Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. 10. Kress Department Store, 6608 Hollywood Blvd. CAPTION(S): 11 photos, map Photo: (1 -- color cover) Walk these historic streets of starlets, screen giants and scandals, and you'll see Hollywood was Made for the Movies. (Hollywood Blvd. scene in front of El Capitan Theatre; Toy Story 2 on the marquee.) (2) Chinese Theatre (3) Hollywood Hotel (4) Musso and Frank Grill (5) Capitol Records building (6) The Brown Derby (7) Roosevelt Hotel (8) El Capitan Theatre (9) Max Factor Building (10) Egyptian Theatre (11) Kress Department Store (12) The restored El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard is devoted to Disney films. John Lazar/Staff Photographer Map: GET A FOOTHOLD IN HOLLYWOOD (see text) |
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