In Los Angeles, Among the Stars
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 07.31.07 | 2:22 PM ET
After reading that actress Drew Barrymore wanted to become a travel writer, South Florida Sun-Sentinel travel editor Thomas Swick wrote a column suggesting he become her mentor. In fact, he thought he’d offer to do just that during a recent visit to Los Angeles. “But soon after that column appeared, I started to have second thoughts,” he confessed Sunday. “Now that I was in L.A. I wanted to find her and tell her to forget travel writing (no future) and ask if she’d give me acting lessons.”
So begins Swick’s travel story about Los Angeles, which is coupled with his guide to a dozen places in L.A. where you can feel like a star.
Making the list: Runyon Canyon (“They say you can see celebrities walking their dogs in this 130-acre park just blocks from Hollywood Boulevard”); Chateau Marmont (“As famous for the people who died on its premises—John Belushi, Helmut Newton—as for the people who stay on them); and The Dresden Lounge.
For the record, Swick never did land that acting lesson.
Our advice? Tom, don’t quit your day job.
Related on World Hum:
* Thomas Swick’s ‘Letter to a Young Travel Writer’
* Touring Literary Los Angeles: City of Chandler, Bukowski and Fante
* Oscars Tourism Tips, Or How to Stalk Celebrities Like the Paparazzi
Photo by Solsonic via Flickr (Creative Commons).
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
