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A random selection from the site
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Rye Playland
‘ Another location that fellow stalker Owen visited a few weeks back while spending the day in Rye, New York was the amusement park featured at the very end of the 1988 Tom Hanks movie Big. Rye Playland, which is also called Playland Amusement Park or just simply Playland and is run by Westchester County,…
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54 Holly from “1600 Penn”
‘ Way back in April of last year, my good friend Marci, owner of my very favorite gift shop, Lula Mae, texted me to let me know that something was being filmed at a vacant diner (that was once the site of an eatery named 54 Holly) located just down the street from her store. …
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Architect Frank Gehry’s House
‘ One location that I stalked quite a while back, but have yet to blog about is the residence belonging to legendary 81-year old Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, a man who is perhaps best known for his contemporary designs of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown Los Angeles, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao,…
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St. Vincent de Paul Church from “The Closer”
‘ A couple of weeks ago, while watching the Season 7 episode of The Closer titled “Last Rites”, I received a text from my mom, who was also watching the show at the time. She was curious to know if I was aware of what church the episode had been filmed at. And, as fate…
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Claire and Phil’s House from “Modern Family”
‘ A few weeks back I received an email from a fellow stalker in the Nebraska area who had just recently started his very own filming locations blog entitled . This stalker’s name was Robert Patterson and I have to admit that when I first saw his email a red flag went up, as I…
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All Marilyn, All the Time!
‘ I dragged my mom to Hollywood last Friday to do a little Marilyn stalking. She wasn’”‘”‘t too keen on the idea, but I was absolutely dying to do something I had yet to do in all the years I have lived in LA – I wanted to put my hands in Marilyn Monroe’”‘”‘s handprints…
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High Tower from “Dead Again”
‘ I did not see Dead Again when it was first released in 1991 (at 14, I was too young for such an intense thriller), but I vividly remember my parents coming home from the theatre raving about how great it was and how much I would have loved a particularly disturbing scene involving cigarettes. …
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The Pierre Hotel’s Cotillion Ballroom from “Scent of a Woman”
‘ “No mistakes in the tango, Donna. Not like life. Simple. That’s what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, if you get all tangled up, you just tango on.” So advises Lt. Col. Frank Slade (Al Pacino) in the iconic tango scene from the 1992 drama Scent of a Woman. Though…
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The Manhattan Beach Marriott Hotel from “90210”
‘ Another location that the Grim Cheaper and I stopped by a couple of weeks ago while doing some stalking in the South Bay was the Manhattan Beach Marriott, which stood in for the supposed-Beverly-Hills-area hotel where the West Beverly High Senior Prom was held in the Season 3 episode of fave show 90210 titled…
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New “L.A.” Mag Post – About “The Grinder” House
‘ Be sure to check out my latest Los Angeles magazine article about the Sanderson house from The Grinder, my new favorite TV show. My articles typically get published in the early afternoon hours. ‘