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Goodbye to Hollywood
Last entry from Los Angeles, as I fly back to Germany this afternoon. If the plane crashes, I hope it will be on an island with mystical qualities. Otherwise, I've had a fabulous final day, admiring nature, then fannish tv locations and then having an outrageous "only in Hollywood" experience, about which more below. But in chronological order:
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bitterbyrden and self went to visit Aqua Dulce in Vasquez County, site of many a cinematic and tv desert scene. It looked gorgeous. Behold:
bitterbyrden said the one above looked like Morla the Ancient, die Uralte Morla, from The Never-Ending Story, stranded somewhere outside the swamp. Those cliffs came in useful for the occasional shady rest, as demonstrated here by yours truly:
And of course since this was a Western shooting location, there was also this:
On our way back to Los Angeles, we noticed there was a complete traffic jam on the other side of the 101. Not surprising, really, because some nutter had decided to transport a complete house on the freeway, and it got stuck under a bridge. I kid you not. Sadly, there is no photo, but I'm told it did make the LA news. Meanwhile, after our nature admiration it was time to geek out some more and visit another film location. This one from Six Feet Under. I give you the home of the Fisher family:
Now the thing about this city is, everyone seems to know someone who knows someone. A friend ofbitterbyrden's happened to know someone who made it possible that we not only participated in an event called Cinespia, i.e. an outdoor showing of the movie The Exorcist in no less a location than the Hollywood Cemetary itself, but also let us in VIP style ahead of the queue so we could amply explore said cemetary before the masses were let in (who turned out to be about 3000 people in the end). When I first heard about this plan, I said yes at once but I thought bitterbyrden was kidding about the movie being shown in the actual cemetary, among all the Hollywood dead - surely movie festivals did not take place in cemetaries? She was, of course, completely sincere and serious. Here is photographic proof of an immensely memorable last evening:
You can see the letters of the Hollywood sign in the background:
So, some of the more prominent monuments in the Hollywood Cemetary:
The Fairbanks (father and son) Monument:
I have no idea whom the one on the little island belongs to, but the aesthetics can't be denied:
And now for the movie part. This is the screen, and the place where we put our blankets when we arrived ahead from most other people:
And this is how the audience looked once it had assembled, with a very happy German tourist in the foreground:
Watching the film - which I knew - with such an audience was a bit like the Rocky Horror Picture show, completel with cheers at all the famous set pieces like Regan's crab walk down the stairs, her vomiting etc. I must say, the scariness increases with the big screen (my previous viewing experience was on the tv). All in all, it was the perfect last evening in the City of Angels. Goodbye, Hollywood, goodbye, Los Angeles:
bitterbyrden and self went to visit Aqua Dulce in Vasquez County, site of many a cinematic and tv desert scene. It looked gorgeous. Behold: bitterbyrden said the one above looked like Morla the Ancient, die Uralte Morla, from The Never-Ending Story, stranded somewhere outside the swamp. Those cliffs came in useful for the occasional shady rest, as demonstrated here by yours truly: And of course since this was a Western shooting location, there was also this:
On our way back to Los Angeles, we noticed there was a complete traffic jam on the other side of the 101. Not surprising, really, because some nutter had decided to transport a complete house on the freeway, and it got stuck under a bridge. I kid you not. Sadly, there is no photo, but I'm told it did make the LA news. Meanwhile, after our nature admiration it was time to geek out some more and visit another film location. This one from Six Feet Under. I give you the home of the Fisher family:
Now the thing about this city is, everyone seems to know someone who knows someone. A friend of
bitterbyrden's happened to know someone who made it possible that we not only participated in an event called Cinespia, i.e. an outdoor showing of the movie The Exorcist in no less a location than the Hollywood Cemetary itself, but also let us in VIP style ahead of the queue so we could amply explore said cemetary before the masses were let in (who turned out to be about 3000 people in the end). When I first heard about this plan, I said yes at once but I thought bitterbyrden was kidding about the movie being shown in the actual cemetary, among all the Hollywood dead - surely movie festivals did not take place in cemetaries? She was, of course, completely sincere and serious. Here is photographic proof of an immensely memorable last evening:You can see the letters of the Hollywood sign in the background:
So, some of the more prominent monuments in the Hollywood Cemetary:
The Fairbanks (father and son) Monument:
I have no idea whom the one on the little island belongs to, but the aesthetics can't be denied:
And now for the movie part. This is the screen, and the place where we put our blankets when we arrived ahead from most other people:
And this is how the audience looked once it had assembled, with a very happy German tourist in the foreground:
Watching the film - which I knew - with such an audience was a bit like the Rocky Horror Picture show, completel with cheers at all the famous set pieces like Regan's crab walk down the stairs, her vomiting etc. I must say, the scariness increases with the big screen (my previous viewing experience was on the tv). All in all, it was the perfect last evening in the City of Angels. Goodbye, Hollywood, goodbye, Los Angeles:
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Have a safe flight back home!
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Aw, shucks!
And Selena was easy to guide, as--at the very least--she's interested in seeing a lot of the same things I am! I wish I would have taken a couple of photos of the movie projected up, just to give an idea of how awesome the resolution is. It was truly awesome to see that movie big, and amplified, and yeah, in a cemetery!
I'm still getting over the shock of Doris Day'ing our way into that screening in front of thousands of people. That was so pimp.
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Everything looks wonderful and watching The Exorcist in a cemetery sounds a fabulously weird experience. Have a safe journey home.
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More photos:
My flickr is here, in case you wanted other sizes: http://flickr.com/photos/bitterbyrden/
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You made me look good in both the artsy one and the Cinespia one.*g* Could you mail those to me?
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Have a safe trip home, Selena! It was great to spend some time with you!
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In the everyone knows everyone category, a friend of mine lives down the street in her own restored Victorian that's been in a few shows itself, including one for which they had to rig an explosion on the front porch.
Have a safe trip home.
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Re: Cinespia - next year, then. (They mentioned The Exorcist was the last film shown this year.) Because it's so worth it!
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