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Buying maps to see "Stars" home/Stars is basically a rip-off. Tourists might get a glimpse of the homes behind the gates and and through the dense layers of foliage, and no "Star" in sight. The place to see the most "Stars" in one place,in person, is at a Los Ageles Lakers basketball game. Regulars are Jack Nicholson, Brad Pitt, Andy Garcia, Dennis Hopper, John Lithgow, Don Johnson, Laurence Fishburn, Orlando Jones, and the "old" standby Dyan Cannon.
Take your own car..don't take the tour bus.
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I used to work with a So Cal city and I used to do research on tour bus companies. beware of any tours that advertise tours of the "Stars Homes" if that is your major reason for booking a tour. It may be hard for most people to comprehend (perhaps want to believe would be a better term), but if you're in a bus and just driving down a nice street, and the guide says "Mel Gibson lives there." why do you belive him? He's just keeping a busload of people happy. The places where most movie stars live aren't places where tour buses can drive by. Most bus tours are legit, but if you're on a combined Beach/Star's Homes/Hollywood Tour and the bus is just whizzing by a few homes, who is to say who truly lives where. At the least take it with a grain of salt. Same thing for the maps, I can buy a whole stack of maps and put a lot of little stick on stars and labels on random locations and sell the maps for $20.
If the Star's Home thing is part of a general tour, go along with it and ooohh and ahhh, but don't waste any film, unless the address happens to match anything you've been able to verify.
If you're really interested in star's homes - and remember you can't just walk up to the front door - Google up articles on real estate sales and you can find out what neighborhoods celebrities are moving in and out of. Magazines like Architectural Digest often showcase sar's homes as well. A Hollywood-oriented website, SeeingStars.com, has a section on star's homes at http://www.seeing-stars.com/Live/StarsAddresses_B.shtml. I'm not sure about the accuracy of this list, but I've used this website a lot for personal and business use (tons of stuff about Hollywood) and it seems to be trustworthy. Not sure how they got the addresses, but I think addresses are public access if you have the time to go to a city office and look them up. Remember, you don't want people at your house, so respect their privacy. It's cool to take a photo in front of someone's front gate, I guess, but there are a lot of other things to do. Leave a Comment
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