2 [Illustrated Feature] CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: Near 8557 Olympic. The Beverly Hills cop who stopped a white Rolls-Royce with an expired registration tag in June 1989 didn't expect to be slapped in the face by the driver. Slapper Zsa Zsa Gabor didn't expect to do three days in the clink and—worse—be compelled to reveal her true birthdate (June 6, 1923).
3 [Illustrated Feature] UNHOLY REVEREND: 2101 S. Gramercy. During a 1984 argument at his house, soul legend Marvin Gaye was shot ad by his father, the Rev. Marvin Gaye Sr.
4 [Further points of interest] A FISH CALLED MOOLAH: 3959 Wilshire. L.A.'s most expensive restaurant (average dinner tab: $125 per person, plus tax and tip) is Ginza Sushi Ko, which airlifts fresh fish thrice weekly from Tokyo for the delectation of such gaijin (foreigners, pejoratively) as Marlon Brando and Warren Beatty and provides homey authenticity for Columbia Pictures' and MCA's visiting corporate overlords.
5 [Illustrated Feature] HAIR SCARE: 649 W. Jefferson. Michael Jackson was filming a Pepsi commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in 1984 when special-effects fireworks went haywire, igniting his coif. The Shrine is the site of this year's Oscars show, March 25.
6 [Illustrated Feature] L.A. LIBIDO: 444 Flower. The horniest lawyers in captivity practice in the 444 Building—the tower seen in the aerial shot opening each L.A. Law.
7 [Illustrated Feature] SWEET CHARITY: 443 S. Las Angeles. The Los Angeles Mission feeds the downtown homeless. On holidays, Jeff Bridges, Heather Locklear, Alex Trebek, Donna Mills, Ed Asner, Kirk Douglas and Ed McMahon often wield the ladles.
8 [Illustrated Feature] TOMBSTONE TERRITORY I: 6000 Santa Moniea. Here, in the Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, the morbidly curious will find the last marquees of Rudolph Valentino, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield and Mel ("What's up, Doc?") Blanc.
9 [Illustrated Feature] FAMOUS FRANKS: 711 N. La Brea. For the past 51 years Pink's has been serving up hefty artery-clogging chili dogs. The faithful include Johnny Depp, Eddie Murphy and Jerry Lewis. Legend has it that Sean Penn proposed to Madonna at Pink's. Must be something in the relish.
10 [Illustrated Feature] WE ARE THE WONDERFUL: 1416 N. La Brea. One momentous night in 1985, 45 top pop stars, including Lionel Richie, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Tina Turner and Cyndi Lauper, heeded the sign posted outside A&M Studios—"Please check your egos at the door"—and recorded "We Are the World" to aid African famine relief.
11 [Illustrated Feature] WHERE NIGHTMARES HAPPEN: 1428 N. Genesee. Here stands the two-story white house where, in the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, clean-cut kids go to sleep and find the original Razordigits, Freddy Krueger, running amok in their dreams.
12 [Illustrated Feature] AIYEE! OF THE NEEDLE: 8418 Sunset. Sunset Strip Tattoos is Motley Crue's epidermal atelier, and the band should know: The four metalheads boast 60 tattoos among them.
13 [Further points of interest] DANCING THE NIGHT AWAY: 8225 Sunset. Anyone with $15 can get into the boisterous three-level club Roxbury's, though the famous and fetching may get in first. Jack Nicholson, Magic-Johnson, Debbie Allen and Richard Grieco cavort in the private VIP room.
14 [Further points of interest] STAND-UP GUYS: 8433 Sunset The Comedy Store serves up as many groans as yuks, especially on "open-mike" Mondays. But you never know when Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall or Louie Anderson will pop in for an incendiary workout.
15 [Further points of interest] AMERICAN NINJA: 8505 Santa Monica. In 1987 Steven Seagal was just a ponytailed martial arts instructor working out of his own dojo, the Aikido Ten Shin, when superagent Michael Ovitz, one of Seagal's pupils, introduced him to Warner Bros, execs. Seagal still owns the dojo and drops by periodically to teach advanced classes.
16 [Illustrated Feature] BREAK A LEG: 8700 Beverly. Milton Berle, David Crosby and Billy Idol are among the celebs who have hied themselves to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for healing. (Liz Taylor prefers St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica.) Danny Kaye, Sammy Davis Jr. and Lucille Ball made their final exits from Cedars.
17 [Illustrated Feature] THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL: 8949 Wilshire. Oscar winners bring their statuettes to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to have engraved nameplates attached. Most send a messenger, but last year Jessica Tandy personally came by to collect her Best Actress Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy.
18 [Illustrated Feature] PRETTY LOBBY: 9500 Wilshire. The Regent Beverly Wilshire is the hotel Richard Gere paraded Julia Roberts
through in Pretty Woman and Eddie Murphy ran his scam on in Beverly Hills Cop.
19 [Further points of interest] POWER CHOPS: 8800 Melrose. On Monday nights at barnlike Morton's restaurant, the only thing thicker than the veal chops and crab cakes is the networking. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, James Woods, Rob Lowe, Disney chief Michael Eisner, megamogul David Geffen and other A-listers vie for the coveted front tables.
20 [Illustrated Feature] OUT ON A LIMB: 8585 Melrose. Had a pr-4 certain actress not discovered new age books at The Bodhi Tree bookstore in about 1983, she might still be unaware that she had ever been anyone but Shirley MacLaine.
21 [Illustrated Feature] FINAL LENTIL: 9015 Sunset. In March 1982, hours before injecting the coke-and-heroin speedball that did him in, John Belushi ate what turned out to be his last supper: a bowl of lentil soup at the rock-and-roll hangout, the Rainbow Bar & Grill.
22 [Further points of interest] MEAL OF FORTUNE: 8720 Sunset. The mammoth circular bar at Le Dome is one of L.A.'s best meet-and-mate spots. Here Sylvester Stallone often wooed Brigitte Nielsen, Rod Stewart met Rachel Hunter, and Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith rekindled romance.
23 [Further points of interest] PUCK'S PALACE: 1114 Horn, at Sunset. Morton's notwithstanding, Spago, with its designer pizzas created by the ebullient Wolfgang Puck, is still the ultimate celeb eatery. Closed Oscar night for agent Swifty Lazar's annual bash—if you ain't invited, you must be chopped liver.
24 [Illustrated Feature] FIGHTING HIS WAY TO THE TOP: 2121 Avenue of the Stars. The office tower invaded by the Eurotrash robbers in Die Hard was the Fox Plaza building. Bruce Willis did his ascending floor-by-floor derring-do, though, at the studio.
25 [Further points of interest] WHERE INSIDERS HANG TIGHT: 9229 Sunset. No sign announces Bar One, the intimate, coffeehouselike private club—just a conga line of wannabes hoping to get in. Slim chance. Stars and showbiz bigwigs make up the members-only guest list. Exceptions are made for the head-turningly beautiful, especially if female. "We had one famous actor leave one night with a very attractive woman who wasn't his wife, and the paparazzi caught him smooching her as they walked out the door," says one staffer. "Now we have ways for them to leave more discreetly."
26 [Illustrated Feature] EPI-CENTERFOLD: 10236 Charing Cross. It wasn't the exotic animals roaming the grounds that made Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion the primo petting zoo in Beverly Hills. It was the 200-plus Playmates who've used it as a crash pad—at least until Hef got hitched.
27 [Illustrated Feature] SPELLING'S SAN SIMEON: 594 Mapleton. Charlie's Angels and Dynasty may be Aaron Spelling's glitziest hits, but his glitziest production is his six-acre estate, The Manor. Replete with pool, bowling alley, gym, tennis court, screening room and tour two-car garages, it has been under construction continously since Spelling bought the spread in 198 3 and razed the existing house, formerly home to Bing Crosby.
28 [Illustrated Feature] BROKEN HOME: 2570 Benedict Canyon. When Roseanne Barr and hubby Tom Arnold vacated the four-bedroom house last May after a six-month rental, they left behind trashed furniture, punched-out walls, broken windows, scorched floors and rioting rats. Rehab tab: $100,000.
29 [Illustrated Feature] HOLLYWOOD HOOKERS: 10768 Bellagio. Through thin greenery near Sunset, the curious can sometimes spot such members as James Garner, Bob Newhart and Sean Connery playing the 5th hole at the prestigious Bel-Air Country Club.
30 [Illustrated Feature] TOMBSTONE TERRITORY II: 1218 Glendon. In Westwood Memorial Park lie Marilyn Monroe, Peter Lawford, Natalie Wood and Poltergeist's young Heather O'Rourke.
31 [Illustrated Feature] CELEBS IN THE SUNSET: Clinging to the leftmost margin of the continent, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Dern, Michael Landon and many other stars swear by the lapping waves and epic sundowns of Malibu. Barbra Streisand looks down on it all from her compound in Ramirez Canyon.
32 [Illustrated Feature] HEAD CASE: Washington at Robertson. Gonzo actor Gary Busey, staunch advocate of helmet-free motorcycling, flipped a bike here in 1988. After two hours of neurosurgery, two months of hospitalization and rehabilitaion, he eventually roared off again on his $15,000 Harley—hair still blowing in the wind.
33 [Illustrated Feature] FROM SKID ROW TO SHAD ROE: 802 Bedford. In this posh colonial with backyard pool Richard Dreyfuss and Bette Midler hilariously put up with slovenly drop-in Nick Nolte
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