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Touring the Studios in 113 Degree Weather!
‘ I unfortunately do not have a new post to publish today because Mike, from MovieShotsLA, and I spent all day yesterday touring both Paramount and Warner Brothers Studios . . . in what turned out to be 113 degree heat! Yes, as fate would have it yesterday was THE HOTTEST DAY IN L.A. HISTORY! …
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Oscar Weekend Stalking – Part II
‘ On Oscar Weekend, after stalking the red carpet, I recommend hotel-hopping your way through Hollywood and Beverly Hills for optimal star viewing! The Chateau Marmont, the Mondrian, the Sunset Tower Hotel, the Regent Beverly Wilshire, and the Beverly Hills Hotel are all prime celebrity viewing locations – and most have extremely friendly staff –…
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Charmed, I’m Sure!
‘ Just got a challenge to find the house – but that is an easy one! 🙂 The house is located on Carroll Avenue, a historic block of Victorian homes near Echo Park that is used constantly for filming. The Charmed house is the purple one located at 1329 Carroll Avenue – and the same…
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Latest “L.A.” Mag Post – A Guide to “Pawnee” Locales in Los Angeles
‘ I am so excited for today’s Los Angeles magazine post, in which I compiled a guide to 21 memorable locations featured on the show Parks and Recreation. You can check it out here. My articles typically get published in the late morning/early afternoon hours. ‘
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Will Ferrell’s Streaking Scene
‘ A few weeks ago, while out stalking in Montrose, Mike, from MovieShotsLA, and I decided to pinpoint the exact location where Will Ferrell went streaking in the 2003 movie Old School. Although it’”‘”‘s fairly common location knowledge that the streaking scene took place on Honolulu Avenue in the City of Montrose, I actually first heard that information…
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Villa Sorriso – The Restaurant Where Michael Jackson’s “Celebration of Life” Reception Was Held
‘ One location that I stalked quite a while back, but, for whatever reason, have yet to blog about is Villa Sorriso Ristorante – the Italian eatery where the Jackson family hosted the September 3, 2009 “Celebration of Life” reception for pop star Michael Jackson following his burial at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. …
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The Virginia Street Bridge from “The Misfits”
‘ Another Marilyn Monroe location that I dragged my dad and grandmother out to stalk while visiting Reno, Nevada last month was the famed Virginia Street Bridge, aka the “Bridge of Sighs”, which was featured in the 1961 film The Misfits. As I mentioned in last Friday’s post about the Washoe Country Courthouse, during the…
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Viva Cantina from “The Girls Next Door”
‘ Each May, my girl Miss Pinky Lovejoy, of the Thinking Pink blog, and I have a standing lunch date to celebrate her birthday. We usually hit up Sizzler (‘cause we’re fancy like that!), but this year she requested to dine at Viva Cantina in Burbank – a place I had long wanted to stalk…
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The VA Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center aka the American Embassy from “Argo”
‘ There are few things this stalker loves more than opening her mailbox to discover a slew of “For Your Consideration” screeners – something that happens each January shortly before the Screen Actors Guild Awards. This year, the DVDs waiting in my mailbox were Silver Linings Playbook (my pick for best movie of the year),…
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Rosie’s Pink House from The Wedding Singer
‘ A couple of weeks ago, fellow stalker Owen contacted me to see if Mike, from MovieShotsLA, and I could help him track down Rosie, aka the rappin’”‘”‘ granny’”‘”‘s, pink house from the 1998 movie The Wedding Singer. Owen had been trying for quite a while to locate the home, but just couldn’”‘”‘t make out the…