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  • Latest “L.A.” Mag Post – The “Taken” Apartments

    Latest “L.A.” Mag Post – The “Taken” Apartments

    ‘ Don’t forget to read my latest Los Angeles magazine post here – about the apartment building from Taken, as well as my review of Taken 3.  My articles typically get published in the late morning/early afternoon hours. ‘

  • Father of the Bride House

    Father of the Bride House

    ‘ Had a request today from a co-worker to post the location of the house . Even though in the movie Steve Martin proclaims that he lives in the town of San Marino, his character’”‘”‘s home is actually located a short distance north of San Marino, in Pasadena. The home is beautiful in person, and…

  • The Weller Residence from “Castle”

    The Weller Residence from “Castle”

    ‘ What is it about Victorian-style dwellings that lends itself so well to scary movies and television shows with a spooky theme?  I so often find myself blogging about Victorians this time of year.  (There’s the Mills View House from House, the Blankenhorn Lamphear House from Teaching Mrs. Tingle, and the Miller and Harriott House…

  • Yamashiro Restaurant – Looking Down on All of Hollywood!

    Yamashiro Restaurant – Looking Down on All of Hollywood!

    ‘ On Saturday, my boyfriend took me to dinner at a former Japanese palace called Yamashiro, located in Hollywood – 250 feet above Hollywood Boulevard, to be exact. The restaurant has the most amazing views of Hollywood and surrounding LA that I have ever seen and it was a pretty incredible place to spend an…

  • Going on Vacation!

    Going on Vacation!

    ‘ I am currently on vacation in L.A. with my family and will not be publishing any new blog posts for the next week or so.  Our trip is planned to last two weeks, but we are keeping things up in the air depending on how my dad is feeling.  I will definitely be back…

  • The “Little Miss Sunshine” Motel

    The “Little Miss Sunshine” Motel

    ‘ Another Little Miss Sunshine locale that I desperately wanted to stalk was the supposed Arizona motel where the Hoover family – Olive (Abigail Breslin), Richard (Greg Kinnear), Sheryl (Toni Collette), Dwayne (Paul Dano), Grandpa Edwin (Alan Arkin), and Frank Ginsberg (Steve Carell) – stayed mid-way through their road trip from Albuquerque to Redondo Beach…

  • The “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” Apartment Building

    The “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” Apartment Building

    ‘ A couple of weeks ago, fellow stalker Owen set out upon a mission to try to track down the Spanish-style apartment building where Peter Bretter (aka Jason Segal) lived in the 2008 romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall.  He emailed a few screen captures of the building to me and to the rest of “the…

  • Lindsay Lohan’s Former Venice Home

    Lindsay Lohan’s Former Venice Home

    ‘ I had originally planned on writing about a different location for today’s post, but last night, when the Grim Cheaper and I sat down to watch Oprah Winfrey interview Lindsay Lohan on Oprah’s Next Chapter, I was reminded of a LiLo locale that I had stalked last November – the Venice Beach house where…

  • The Original Pantry Cafe

    The Original Pantry Cafe

    ‘ Well, it is shaping up to be restaurant week at iamnotastalker.com because for the third day in a row now here I am with yet another eatery to blog about – this time Downtown Los Angeles’ historic Original Pantry Café which first opened almost nine decades ago in 1924.  While I had actually known…

  • The “Must Love Dogs” House

    The “Must Love Dogs” House

    ‘ One location that I had always wondered about, but never put much time into tracking down was the charming bungalow where lovelorn preschool teacher Sarah Nolan (Diane Lane) lived in the 2005 romantic comedy Must Love Dogs.  Then, this past May, a fellow stalker named Linda challenged me to find the place and just…