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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 – The Usual Suspects

Hollywood is America culture intensified by several orders of magnitude. That can be unsettling – you really don't want to see the real thing, just the movies and television shows.  Perhaps the tourists who show up in the block between Grauman's Chinese Theater and the home of the Oscars, the Kodak Theater, get queasy.

Girls in pink wigs, Hollywood Boulevard.
Girls in pink wigs, Hollywood Boulevard.
SpongeBob SquarePants impersonator, Hollywood Boulevard
Girls in pink wigs, Hollywood Boulevard.
Snoopy and News Van, Hollywood Boulevard
Snoopy and News Van, Hollywood Boulevard
Tourist posing for picture with Superman and Supergirl impersonators, Hollywood Boulevard

Across the street, with the new Disney sword-and-wizard movie at the El Capitan, you get the mutant jugglers –

Man on stilts and short man, jugglers at El Capitan Theater, Hollywood Boulevard
Man on stilts and short man, jugglers at El Capitan Theater, Hollywood Boulevard

Disoriented tourists at Hollywood and Highland – but the walkway does frame things.

Hollywood and Highland - Main Archway
Hollywood and Highland - Main Archway

The appropriate reference at the Kodak Theater –

Illuminated commemorative plaque at the Kodak Theater, Hollywood - "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

If you wish to use any of these photos for commercial purposes I assume you'll discuss that with me. And should you choose to download any of these images and use them invoking the "fair use" provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976, please provide credit, and, on the web, a link back this site. 

Technical Note:

Photographs after March 3, 2008, were taken with a Nikon D200 – or a Nikon D70 when noted. All previous photographs were taken with the D70. The lenses used are (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto, or (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. Photography here is modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0.  The earliest photography in the archives was done with a Sony Mavica digital still camera (MVC-FD-88) with built-in digital zoom.

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