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Los Angeles
You’ve seen the movie, but nothing beats the real thing. The Hollywood Sign in the hills watches over Sunset Boulevard’s studios, Rodeo Drive’s designer shops, star wannabes on Hollywood Boulevard, and the boardwalk on distant Santa Monica beach. L.A. sprawls, so it’s a place to drive with the top down. In Hollywood, go up to Griffith Park where James Dean drove his car off the cliff in Rebel Without a Cause, then walk past the 1920s Grauman's Chinese Theatre along the (literally) star-studded Walk of Fame or drive up Mulholland Drive for full views of the city from the hills. Don’t neglect art – the world-class Getty Center overlooks LA from north of Santa Monica, the LA County Museum of Art is a standout on Wilshire Boulevard’s "Museum Row." Head down Santa Monica Boulevard to get to the beach. If you need more glitz with your sand, go north to Malibu (where the stars live); for tattoos, go south to flamboyant Venice Beach. Hotels conjure different eras – the Chateau Marmont’s early Hollywood grace, the Highland Gardens Hotel (where Janis Joplin died in 1970), or 21st-century boutique hotels like Santa Monica’s Viceroy or West Hollywood's Sofitel. If you need a break from stars, low-key hipster locals go for booze and brunch in unassuming Silver Lake, several miles east of Hollywood. Of course, that’s on TV now too.
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- address: 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles
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- address: Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, Ca
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- address: 100 Universal Center Dr., North Hollywood Fwy. I-101, Universal City
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- website: www.lacity.org/
- other names: City of Angels
- population: 3,849,378
- area: 498.3 sq mi
- time zone: PST
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dominik2008-11-14LA is fantastic, if you like big. Drive from downtown towards the ocean in Santa Monica, and you will feel like visiting 10 cities in the span of a car ride. Go further on Highway 1 to briefly feel the freedom of California, and see what Baywatch and Malibu is all about, before you head back to the Hills via Mullholland. Watch 15 mio lights in the dark and feel like being in a movie, not watching it. A city not to miss in a life time.
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2008-04-22love the vastness of LA (this quote comes from the movie "shoping girl" based on the novella by steve martin. an hommage to LA). The first time I was there it sucked big time. The weather, the dirt, the streets - pretty much everything.
The more I came there (and I was there a lot) and the time I spent studying at UCLa and living in Los Feliz (be sure to check out this area near Griffith par where Brangelina already bought a house) I started adoring the City of Angels.
Not only becaus you are in a meltin pot like New York with simply more space, but also because it's the place where movies are shot, where celebs are born and where you can where dark black shades while having a coffee at coffee bean on sunset.
LA has something magical which only opens to people when they have been there various times or for a longer time I guess.
The second night I went out I got totally wasted with Kiefer Sutherland in a bar with 4 people in there dancing to Britney Spears - Do you need anyhting more?
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