A random selection from the site

  • Taking A Four-Day Break!

    Taking A Four-Day Break!

    ‘ I really hate to do this, but unfortunately I have way too much going on this week and am going to have to take the next four days off.  My parents are coming to town this afternoon for a short visit, I am doing some stalking on Thursday and on Friday the Grim Cheaper…

  • Mr. Big’s Church

    Mr. Big’s Church

    ‘ One New York location that I have long been wanting to stalk is the church featured in the Season One episode of entitled “Oh Come All Ye Faithful”. In the episode Carrie, while doing some research on religion for her weekly column, stumbles upon Big and his mother coming out of a church one…

  • Wayne Manor From the “Batman” Television Series

    Wayne Manor From the “Batman” Television Series

    ‘ Just up the street from the Just Married mansion which I blogged about yesterday is the residence which stood in for Wayne Manor, aka Batman’s abode, in the 1966 television series and movie of the same name.  As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, the Batman mansion and the Just Married mansion are quite often…

  • Marilyn Monroe’s Catalina House

    Marilyn Monroe’s Catalina House

    ‘ The most important item on my Catalina Island stalking list was the home where a very young Marilyn Monroe lived with her first husband James Dougherty during the years 1943 to 1944.  This was long before Miss Monroe became a Hollywood icon and household name, back when she was just a girl who was…

  • Break Out The Clicquot!

    Break Out The Clicquot!

    ‘ This is a post I’”‘”‘ve been itching to do for almost two weeks now, but had to keep mum on! Two weeks ago I was interviewed by Washington Post travel correspondent Andrea Sachs, who, based on the major hype of the upcoming 90210 v. 2.0, was sent out to the West Coast to do…

  • The Cooper House from “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”

    The Cooper House from “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”

    ‘ Sometimes I become obsessed with a location because I love the movie that it was featured in.  Other times I just like the look of a particular place and am desperate to see it in person.  And other times still I read something about a filming site that completely transfixes me despite the fact…

  • No Trespassing and the City!

    No Trespassing and the City!

    ‘ Every December, while in New York, I make a pilgrimage to Carrie’”‘”‘s brownstone from fave television show Sex and the City. Even though

  • The Campbell House from “Soap”

    The Campbell House from “Soap”

    ‘ Something must be in the water, because this has been the most fortuitous week I’ve ever had when it comes to stalking.  Over the course of the past few days, not only have three of my most-wanted locations been found, but I was even granted access to the interior of one and, remarkably, it…

  • The Barthman Sidewalk Clock

    The Barthman Sidewalk Clock

    ‘ It has been said that you shouldn’t look down when you walk.  There are two places in Manhattan where you ought to keep your eyes on the pavement, though.  I blogged about one, Hess Triangle in front of Village Cigars, on Wednesday.  The other, a clock imbedded in concrete outside of what was once…

  • Dick Clark’s Former Malibu Home

    Dick Clark’s Former Malibu Home

    ‘ Last June, my Grandma sent me an article about legendary television personality Dick Clark’s former Flintstones-style Malibu home, calling it “unbelievable” and asking if I could track it down and stalk it.  One look at the photographs of the cave-like structure, which had recently been put on the market, and I was in!  And…