Hollywood Off The Beaten Path Tips by sourbugger

ROUTE 66 : Tip 57 - Almost blew that career ! Hollywood / Boulevard / Sign Review

IM : "The corner of Sunset Boulevard and Courtney Avenue, now why does that ring a bell ?"

SB :"Well, someone famous got arrested here"

IM : "Oh it wasn't, was it ? It's where 'old floppy haircut' wasn't so divine, isn't it ?"

SB :"Got it in one. Hugh Grant's career went down from this point, which is ironic as the hookers' career consisted entirely of that"

IM :"Imagine, he could have almost any woman he wanted, and still he picked up a cheap street-hooker"

SB : "The thrill of it I suppose"

ROUTE 66 : Tip 58 - corners like it's on rails

"The Las Palmas Hotel, do you recognise it from one of your favourite films ?"

"No"

"It's from Pretty Woman, you know Richard Gere picks up the tart with heart flick"

"But that hotel had jacuzzi's, bellhops, fountains, the works. This looks more like an East European ball-bearing factory circa 1964"

"It's the scuzzy one at the start of the movie when she is working the street, and Gere pulls up in his Lotus Esprit"

"Good choice of car"

"Good choice of hotel, as it had that fire escape, very useful"

"Anything else ?"

"Well I believe if you look closely in the film the 'tel' of hotel are not lit up - thus leaving..."

"Ho........ha ha"

Located on Hollywood boulevard and Las Palmas ave.

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