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My Mom's in town so today we went on the Warner Bros. studio tour. I've never been on any studio tour, even though I've lived in LA for three years - so it was really fun to go. It's kind of expensive ($45) and most of the time they don't let you take pictures - but it's thorough. It's 2 hours long and you ride a tram all over the lot, stopping at several sound stages, sets, and the studio museum. Most of it is pointing out where the recent crap has been made (Two and a Half Men, The Last Samurai and other god awfulness), but some of it was pretty neat. I never knew before that the Gilmore Girls' Stars Hollow was also River City in The Music Man! That was probably the coolest moment for me - standing where they sang "Trouble". They also pointed out the cafe where Rick and Ilsa spent their time in Paris and the entire floor of a building that Bette Davis demanded for her "dressing room".
I sort of wish there could be an Old Hollywood tour and a new Hollywood tour and you could chose between them, because the old Hollywood lore kind of got short shrift.
I sort of wish there could be an Old Hollywood tour and a new Hollywood tour and you could chose between them, because the old Hollywood lore kind of got short shrift.