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The Ultimate Hollywood Tour Book (3rd edition) Paperback – June 1, 2002

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The self-guided tours in this book help travelers discover where today's Hollywood lives, works. The book covers a little of everything: celebrity homes and haunts; locations all over greater Los Angeles where popular and classic motion pictures and television shows were filmed; the studios; sites of infamous Hollywood scandals, murders, and suicides; and other sites where entertainment history, including sites that inspired songs. The book is updated annually and covers 17 different areas of greater Los Angeles (from Pasadena to Malibu and the northern San Fernando Valley to the South Bay.) Readers can also ask the publisher to send e-mail updates.

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June 1, 2002
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It is a terrific book, with maps and information that you really would find nowhere else. -- Paul Wallach, syndicated broadcaster

This guide spotlights the hidden dirt that standard star tours never uncover. -- New York Daily News

This guide spotlights the hidden dirt that standard star tours never uncover. -- New York Daily News

We would rate this "Hollywood Tour Book" Number 1+ of all the tourist guides that have been written on Hollywood. -- John Austin, Hollywood Inside Syndicate

We would rate this book as Number 1+ of all the tourist guides that have been published on Hollywood. -- Hollywood Inside Syndicate

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"The Ultimate Hollywood Tour Book" is the only book that will show you how to find:

* The homes of the biggest stars of today and yesteryear

* Hot spots where you have the best chances of seeing the stars

* Filming locations of classic or popular motion pictures and television shows

* Sites of Hollywood's most notorious murders, scandals, and suicides

* The movie studios, and

* Tinseltown's many hidden attractions (including castles and sites hat inspired songs)

With 33 pages of maps and dozens of photographs, including rare aerials of movie stars' homes.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ North Ridge Books; 3rd edition (June 1, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0937813079
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0937813072
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 8 inches

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Mike Dirksen

This book has a different appeal for me !!

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2013

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Unlike the other people who reviewed this volume, I do not ever expect to make it all the way out to Los Angelos to actually see some of these many fine attractions. What this volume shows me is that there at least 370 very interesting local attractions in that area, that I counted, and this serves as a very exciting, point by point, historical description of people and events in that area for the past 100 years. What I am interested in is, perhaps a little different than, maybe the majority, would be interested in. The most interesting landmark I saw here does not even exist any more, and that is the house on Ciello Drive in Beverly Hills where the Manson Family Murders took place. I was suprised by the number of landmarks that were not really all that far from there. These include the house that silent film actor Harold Lloyd was still living in at the time, Falcon Lair, which used to be R. Valentinos hideaway house, the Superman Death house, where George Reeves committed suicide in 1959, the last home of Danny Kaye, as well as the former homes of Madonna, Peter Falk, Jack Benny, and the last home of Lucille Ball. This last mentioned home Lucy bought for 85k in 1958, and, 3 years after her death, in 1989, this home sold for 3.7 million dollars !!!
another house of interest to me is the Beverly Hillbillys Mansion, and points of interest close to it include former homes of the following celebritys: The Mamas and the Papas, Johnny Carson, Sonny and Cher, Ronald Reagan, Elizabeth Taylor, and Nicholas Cage. There are a number of other locations where famous deaths, murders and suicides have happened, but one of the most famous is where mobster Bugsy Siegel was assinated in 1947, in Bel Air. Houses close to this include the "Owlwood Estate where Joseph Schenk, Marilyn Monroe, Sonny and Cher, and Tony Curtis all lived in at one time, as well as the former homes of Howard Hughes, and Judy Garland, Buddy Hackett, Lana Turner, and Clara Bow.
There are sooo many other positive suprises in this book, and it is a chronicle of local history like none other I have ever seen, and, I think, every city in the USA deserves such an extensive historical anecdote book, with a community by community, street by street map description.

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John S Harris

Indispensible for the self-guided tourist

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2007

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Used an earlier edition of this book when I took a self-guided tour in 1997, and bought this newer edition for my trip to L.A. in 2007. Indispensible! Better than a "map of the stars' homes" any day. Thoroughly recommended if you are planning to drive yourself around the various parts of L.A. looking for your particular favorite haunts. Thanks to this book, in 1997 I got to see (and exchange waves with) Jack Lemmon as he drove out of his driveway (no, I wasn't lying in wait. I'd pulled over to double check my location).

Though I had far less time to use it on my 2007 trip, I would have felt naked and unprepared just travelling without it. Another great feature about this book is that the author encourages submissions/corrections/additions to add to future editions, so if you discover the rare incorrect or out-of-date piece of info, he wants you to submit it to him so the next edition will be just that much more accurate.

Used the info in the book to track down the Playboy Mansion in 1997. Had a neat experience at the mansion gates that trip and have pics to prove it. When I drove by it again in 2007 a few hours before I was to attend a party there that evening, I glanced at the book over in the passenger seat of my rental car and gave it a knowing smile.

My copy is autographed. Don't know if that increases its value, but it is a nice touch.

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Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2003

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There must be 50 Hollywood homes books on the market. If you visit Beverly Hills, a tour-bus or map salesman will gladly take your money. But W. Gordon's remarkably accurate and truthful guide will spell out where the buses point out homes where movie stars never lived. Gordon provides detailed directions and maps to the sites you want to see. And loads of "goodies" and information. He shows you how to get to Arnold's palatial block of homes in Brentwood, and warns that driving there is a $ 500 fine and possible jail time! Wow! He also gives directions to Rudolph Valentino's original 1920's mansion(and much, much more). Forget the B.S. Here it is. When I e-mailed him for an up-date, he gladly provided it for free(see the book). Why waste time driving around freeways?

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2016

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Not your average tacky guide book.

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2007

The Ultimate Hollywood Tour Book is full of interesting facts, historical tidbits and interviews with Hollywood natives that provide readers with a realistic view of Hollywood, past and present. As any worthwhile tour guide should, this book lists hundreds of locations of interest to visit in and around the Hollywood area, extending it's reach to surrounding Los Angeles communities that have ties to the entertainment business. However, the tone of Gordon's book is informative, straightforward and friendly, not off-putting or intentionally misleading, as some guide books can be.

Not surprisingly, Gordon's book is even a fun read for those of us born and raised in Hollywood. For me it brought back memories of old haunts, and it evoked nods of approval among friends as we read through many accurate descriptions of favorite locales and pages of sound advice about what to visit and why, as well as what to avoid.

Whether you're a native of the Los Angeles area, a tourist planning just a few days' visit to Hollywood, or a local history buff searching for a fun and interesting book to read, you can't go wrong picking up a copy of William Gordon's Ultimate Hollywood Tour Book.

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