Field Trip this Sunday

This weekend is our real Hollywood push. As stated below, we do the Warner Studio tour after class on Friday. On Sunday, Jan. 21, we have a pretty full day in Hollywood. It starts at 10:00 a.m. -- we meet at the Hollywood Museum, located at 1660 N. Highland (the cross street is Hollywood Blvd., it's across from the Kodak Center) Read more about it here.
Here's a description: "The ultimate destination for movie fans, The Hollywood Museum in the historic Max Factor Building includes miracles of motion picture magic past and present on four floors and in 5,000 eye-popping exhibits. You can easily spend an entire day savoring such astounding displays as the spine-tingling cell of Hannibal Lecter as seen in “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Red Dragon,” award-winning landmark sets and Nicole Kidman’s costumes from “Moulin Rouge,” Mae West’s boudoir, the masthead of “H. M. S. Surprise,” Russell Crowe’s costumes from “Master and Commander,” the burning plane from “Jurassic Park” and Cary Grant’s Rolls Royce. Screen stars celebrated at the Hollywood Museum include Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Rudolf Valentino, Mary Pickford, W. C. Fields, Joan Crawford, Lucille Ball, Tom Cruise, Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Bob Hope, Judy Garland, and Leonardo Di Caprio.
Max Factor’s world famous makeup rooms and thousands of unique, vintage photographs are included in one of the most spectacular collection of sets, props, rare photos, posters, costumes and memorabilia ever assembled."

aaina, I can't begin to tell you how much you're going to enjoy this!


We take a break from the museum to walk down Hollywood Boulevard to the Egyptian (where some off us saw The Queen)where we will see their short film -- "Forever Hollywood" at 11:30 a.m. After the film, at 12:30 or so, we will be given a private tour of the theater for approximately an hour -- It's a great taste of Hollywood in the 30s - 40s. To read more about the Egyptian, go here.

After the tour we have lunch at the Pig N'Whistle Besides clicking the name to go to the official website, I'd suggest reading here for more history and information.
After lunch we walk over to the Chinese Theatre, I show you some footprints and then we return to the History Museum to see the floors we weren't able to cover in our morning session.