Tuesday, August 5, 2008

9th day - in depth City tour

These photos includes some stars from the walk of fame hollywood . The handprints are from the Mann's chinese theater. The others are from the hollywood's wax museum. I actually went for another tour in Kodak Theater . Due to copyright issue , we tourist cannot take any photos inside the theater. Kodak theater is the home for both academy and oscar awards. It also hosts american idol's final. Luckily , we get to choose the seats in the theater to sit on while listen to the presentation of the tour guide. I quickly grabbed the seat which Johnny depp has sat on this year's oscar award. The 2nd last photo here , is right where the red carpet when oscar ceremony opens.
For your knowledge , to get a star of ur name down in the walk of fame , you have to be famous enough, get enough recognition , do enough charity , and pay a 15000 USD deposit. To leave your handprint infront of the Mann's chinese theater , the celeb has to has his/her movie premiere at the theater itself . and he/she must be popular enough. Each year they are only 2 to 3 new prints put on the floor. the recents one are from the main actor of the batman returns ( forgot his name loo) .. then last year is Daniel radcliff and johnny depp .

For the muhammad ali's star ( the last photo ) , he is the only one having his star on the wall , not on the floor . This is to honor his status of "Never beaten down to the floor" and his muslim religion belief ( No stepping on his name ! ) .

For the walk of fame , there are 5 kind of stars one can see. The 5 categories are TV star , Recordings , Broadcasting , Filming , and Comedian . e.g. Donald trump has one star of TV, jackie chan has a filming star . There is only one people having 5 stars together in the walk of fame . (forgot his name .. check wikipedia la ) .

























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