Celebrities
Today the Strip contains some of the most exclusive condominium complexes on the West Coast. However, the most coveted residences in Los Angeles are in the celebrity-studded hills above the Sunset Strip. The highest concentration of celebrities living in Los Angeles are in this part of the Hollywood Hills, located just above Sunset Boulevard, from Kings Road, to Sunset Plaza Drive, to Doheny Drive. Homes in this area generally range from $3–15 million, providing incomparable privacy and breathtaking views of the entire Los Angeles Basin.
Some celebrities living in the Hollywood Hills above the Sunset Strip include Halle Berry, Christina Aguilera, Cameron Diaz, Paris Hilton, Rod Stewart, Tim Gaines, Leonardo DiCaprio, Megan Mullally, Keanu Reeves, Robbie Williams, Byron Allen, Joey Pollari, Seth Rogen, Ryan Phillipe, Buck Henry, Dido, Jose Eber, Nicky Hilton, Tara Charendoff-Strong, Al Pacino, Jeff Goldblum, Jewel, Brad Garrett, James Franco, Reggie Bush, Dane Cook, Christina Applegate, John Frusciante, James Woods, Morrissey, and Michael Bublé.
77 Sunset Strip, a successful 1958–1964 TV series, was set on the Strip between La Cienega Boulevard and Alta Loma Road, although the address was fictional as street numbers there run in the 7000-8000s. Less remembered is a second crime drama, Dan Raven, starring Skip Homeier, which aired on NBC during calendar year 1960, also set on the Sunset Strip. Dan Raven featured several celebrities, including Bobby Darin, Marty Ingels, and Paul Anka, appearing as themselves.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was a behind-the-scenes television drama of a late-night comedy sketch show performed at a fictional theater on the Strip.
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Famous quotes containing the word celebrities:
“Passengers in 1937 totaled 270,000; so many of these were celebrities that two Newark newspapers ran special airport columns.”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)