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Romance location: Clarence and Alabama hide out: the Safari Inn,
Burbank
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TRUE ROMANCE
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CREDITS
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If you gave me a million years to ponder, I would've
never guessed that true romance and Detroit would ever
go together.
Tony
Scotts film of Quentin
Tarantinos script shamelessly rips off the
musical style and flat narrative voiceover of Terrence
Malicks Badlands.
Well, if youre going to steal, steal from the
best.
The movie opens in Detroit,
and indeed this is where youll find Clifford Worleys
(Dennis Hopper)
trailer park, on the Detroit River.
He works at the Packard Plant,
East Grand Boulevard at Mount Elliott. The
cop station is at 1300 Beaubien,
and Clarence Worley (Christian
Slater) and Alabama Whitman (Patricia
Arquette) marry at the Wayne
County Building, 600 Randolph.
But the Sonny Chiba Street
Fighter triple bill, where Clarence and Alabama
first meet, is in LA,
at the beautifully-restored Vista
Theater, 4473 Sunset Drive, Los Feliz (tel:
323.660.6639), which was also seen in Christopher
Guests underrated The
Big Picture (1989), and was used for the
premiere of Stab
in Scream 2.
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Romance location: Clarence and Alabama at the 'Detroit' cinema: Vista Theater, Sunset Drive, Hollywood
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The exterior of the theatre is Spanish Revival, but
its 1922 construction coincided with the hysteria surrounding
the discovery of Tutankhamuns tomb, and the interior
is wonderfully kitschy Egyptian.
Also in LA
is the diner, where the couple eat pie afterwards: the
fifties-style Raes Restaurant,
2901 Pico Boulevard, at the corner of 29th
Street in Santa Monica
(tel: 310.828.7937), seen also in the Eddie
Murphy-Steve
Martin satire Bowfinger
and in 2004s Win a Date
With Tad Hamilton!.
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Romance location: Clarence and Alabama enjoy pie: Rae's Restaurant, Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica
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Other locations include the mansions of Pasadena; Hollywood
bungalows; downtown LA; the beach at Malibu and the
desert at Palmdale. The construction site is alongside
the landing strips of Los Angeles International Airport.
The roller-coaster is the Viper, at Six Flags Magic
Mountain, Magic Mountain Parkway, off I-5, Valencia,
north of LA.
Movie producer Lee Donowitzs lavish Beverly
Ambassador suite filmed in the old (now demolished) Ambassador Hotel,
3400 Wilshire Boulevard, midtown LA (seen in many, many films including appearing as the ‘Taft Hotel’ in The Graduate).
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Romance location: the 'Beverly Ambassador' hotel: Ambassador Hotel, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
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The fabulously kitsch motel, where Clarence and Alabama
hide out, is the Safari Inn, 1911 Olive Boulevard (tel:
818.845.8586), near Buena Vista, just north of the
Disney Studios in Burbank though the leopardskin
interior isnt for real. You can also see the Safari
in Ron Howards Apollo 13.
There was also filming at the Athenaeum,
the dining club of the California
Institute of Technology, at 551
South Hill Avenue in Pasadena,
seen in the original Beverly
Hills Cop.
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FILMING
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