In the next in our series of posts about visiting Los Angeles, we’re looking at another attraction that you can see in Hollywood Boulevard: The Walk of Fame.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame is another extremely popular and world-famous tourist attraction. It stretches from Gower Street to La Brea Avenue on both sides of Hollywood Boulevard, and from Sunset Boulevard to Yucca Street on both sides of Vine Street. If you are visiting Grauman’s Chinese Theater, you’ll notice the stars on the pavement outside.
It consists of more 2,300 pink and bronze stars, each of which is embedded in a charcoal and pink terazzo square on the pavement. Each star contains the name of a person, a band, a character, or a radio or TV show.
As well as the name of the person being honoured, each star includes a symbol, representing the category in which they are being honoured: a movie camera for those being honoured for their contribution to the motion picture industry; a television set for the TV industry; a record for the recording industry; a radio microphone for the radio industry; and comedy and tragedy masks for live theatre.
Work began on the Walk of Fame in 1960 and during the sixteen months after the official groundbreaking ceremony, 1,558 stars were put in place. The first person to have a star on the Walk of Fame was the actress Joanne Woodward. More stars have been added every year since then, at a rate of about 20 per year.
If you are visiting the Hollywood Walk of Fame, here are just some of the stars that you can look out for: Charlie Chaplin (6751 Hollywood Boulevard); Elvis Presley (6777 Hollywood Boulevard); Michael Jackson (6927 Hollywood Boulevard); Johnny Depp (7018 Hollywood Boulevard); Marilyn Monroe (6774 Hollywood Boulevard); James Dean (1719 Vine Street); The Doors (6901 Hollywood Boulevard); Britney Spears (6801 Hollywood Boulevard); David Bowie (7021 Hollywood Boulevard); and John Lennon (1750 Vine Street).
Some people have more than one star on the Walk of Fame, as they have been honoured for their work in more than one category. Walt Disney, for example, has two stars – one for his contribution to the motion picture industry (at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard) and one for his contribution to television (6747 Hollywood Boulevard). Gene Autry has the most stars on the Walk of Fame, with stars in each of the five categories.
The desicion about which celebrities will appear on the Walk of Fame is made annually, in June, and ceremonies are then held throughout the year. If you are visiting Los Angeles, it’s worth checking to see whether or not any ceremonies will be taking place whilst you are there, as they are open to the public.
The new stars to appear on the Walk of Fame in 2010 will honour the following (the categories for which they were nominated appear in brackets):
James Cameron (Motion Pictures); Russell Crowe (Motion Pictures); John Cusack (Motion Pictures); Colin Firth (Motion Pictures); Gale Ann Hurd (Motion Pictures); Alan Menken (Motion Pictures); Randy Newman (Motion Pictures); Adam Sandler (Motion Pictures); Emma Thompson (Motion Pictures); Mark Wahlberg (Motion Pictures); Chris Berman (Television); Jon Cryer (Television); Peter Graves (Television); Jimmy Kimmel (Television); Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Television); Bill Maher (Television); Sam Waterston (Television); Bryan Adams (Recording); The Funk Brothers (Recording); Alan Jackson (Recording); Chaka Khan (Recording); Van Morrison (Recording); Marco Antonio Solis (Recording); Ringo Starr (Recording); ZZ Top (Recording); Roy Orbison (Recording); Andrea Bocelli (Live Performance/Theater); and Cirque du Soleil/Guy Laliberte (Live Performance/Theater).
Tags: California, Hollywood, Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Los Angeles, USA
Some time give here,Istanbul, the capital of Turkey is a beautiful and must visit place on earth. it has some unique ethnicity which makes it special. Istanbul is situated in the north-west Marmara region of turkey. It encloses the southern Bosphorus which carve up the city in two continents—the western portion of Istanbul is in Europe, while the eastern portion is in Asia.
The Marmara Region is the smallest but most densely populated of the seven geographical regions of Turkey. It represents approximately 8.6% of the Turkish national territory. Its name derives from the Sea of Marmara, which itself is named for the island of Marmara, derived from the Greek.
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