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Body
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CREDITS
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Brian De Palma
recycles more Hitchcock
plots – and misogyny – in a disturbing and
disturbed thriller set in a sleazy, seamy LA.
The film opens at the Tail
íoí the Pup, 329 San Vicente Boulevard, midtown,
the hotdog stand that looks like, well, a hotdog. You
can see the famous landmark in Steve
Martin satire L.A. Story.
With the respect LA
usually shows to its classic landmarks, the famed landmark
has recently (early 2006) closed. There are plans for
it to reopen at a new location.
The 'Cascade Theater', where struggling actor Jake Scully
(Craig Wasson)
auditions and meets Sam (Gregg Henry), is actually the
Callboard Theater, 8451 Melrose
Place near Orlando Avenue/La Cienega Boulevard
in West Hollywood (there's a clue in the fact that the
frontage clearly reads ëCallboardí).
Scully shops at LA landmark Farmersí
Market, 6333 West 3rd Street at Fairfax Avenue,
and drinks in Barney's
Beanery, 8447 Santa Monica Boulevard, a venerable
West Hollywood hangout ‚ Jean Harlow allegedly picked
up men here, and itís where Jim Morrison pees against
the bar in Oliver
Stoneís The
Doors.
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Body
Double: Jake shopping: Farmers' Market, West
3rd Street
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The bizarre home-on-a-stalk that Scully temporarily
occupies is architect John Lautnerís Chemosphere
House, 3105 Torreyson Place,
off Mulholland Drive, in the Hollywood Hills. From here,
Wasson spies on Gloria (Deborah
Shelton) in her house in the hills on Miller
Drive. The domed glass house in Charlie's
Angels, though a studio set, is modelled
on the Chemosphere.
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Body Double: Jake
Scully drowns his sorrows: Barney's Beanery,
Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood
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Gloria buys expensive undies on Rodeo Drive – underneath
all the swish dressing, ‘Bellini’s’ is
the Louis Vuitton luggage store in the
Rodeo Collection, the exclusive mall at 421
North Rodeo Drive.
Scully takes Holly (Melanie
Griffith) to celeb hangout, Spago’s Restaurant,
1114 Horn Avenue, which overlooked West Hollywood, but
closed in 2001.
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