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Story: Richard E Grant grabs a bite to
eat: Tail o'the Pup, San Vicente Boulevard
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CREDITS
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Amiable
romantic satire, set in a determinedly cosy, whitebread
Los Angeles.
TV station ëKYOYí, where Steve Martin works as a wacky
weatherman, is KCET, 4401 Sunset
Boulevard. Although now devoted to television,
it used to be Allied Artists film studio, and before
that, Monogram Pictures. You can see the building in
Don Siegel's
original Invasion of the Body
Snatchers.
ëLíIdiotí restaurant, with fearsome maitre dí Patrick
Stewart, is the old Ambassador
Hotel, 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, a frequent
movie location, now – shamefully – demolished.
The bank is the old Bank of America building at 650
South Spring Street, another veteran location,
seen in another Steve
Martin vehicle, All of
Me, as well as John
Schlesinger's Marathon
Man, Jim
Carrey comedy The Mask,
Spider-Man
2 and, best of all, David
Fincher's Se7en.
The art gallery through which Martin
rollerskates is the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard,
midtown (tel: 213.857.6000, admission charge),
while the gallery where he critiques abstract art is
the Museum of Contemporary Art,
250 South Grand Avenue (tel: 213.626.6222).
Richard E Grant
grabs a bite to eat at the Tailíoíthe
Pup, 329 San Vicente Boulevard at Beverly
Boulevard, midtown ‚ the fast-food stand in the shape
of a giant hot-dog, featured in Brian
de Palma's Body
Double. As with the Ambassador, this famed landmark
has also (early 2006) disappeared. There are plans for
it to reopen at a new location.
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Story: 'Full service': the Gilmore Service Station,
Highland Avenue, Hollywood
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The ‘full service’ garage is the Gilmore
Service Station, Auto Repair & Snack Shop, 859 Highland
Avenue at Willoughby in Hollywood.
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