Posted on 07/23/2013 11:11:56 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
Hollywood Boulevard is the West Coast equivalent of Times Square, an urban reclamation project that transformed a strip once notorious for crime, drug-dealing and prostitution into a tourist destination, a thriving night life district and the home of movie premieres and the Academy Awards.
But over the past month, two high-profile crimes — a fatal stabbing of a tourist by a homeless person and a robbery spree by a gang that bounded past people gawking at the Walk of Fame — have threatened this carefully cultivated and civically critical reinvention, worrying community leaders and presenting an early challenge to this city’s new mayor, Eric Garcetti.
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Not a movie thread, but related.
They spent 2 billion to “rebuild” the commercial real estate in Hollywood, but it is still dangerous to be there at night.
hollyweird should be a gun free, body guard free... self defense free zone. ALL hollyweirdians should be taxed at a rate of 110% of earnings.
I have never had a desire to go to Hollywood.
Wake me up when they start hitting the celebs’ homes.
I wait for the day when that happens and when some bad luck hits these bastards.
That would constitute some ‘crime reports’ I’d actually enjoy.
Hey Eric . . . take another shot of Commiedope and you'll feel better in no time!
It’s so glamorous.
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The Walk of Fame, or Walk of Stars has always been in an area that one would NOT want to be in when the sun goes down. It made me uncomfortable, the few times I needed to be there, and I was always looking over my shoulder.
Something should have been done about it 50 years ago.
I hate LA.
Nothing to like, anymore.
Including the blue collar workers who make up most of a film crew at any given time?
Things got to change—The criminals are running the cities and turning what was once beautiful into ruin-—This is what PC gets us—Time to roll back the clock to 1950!
That is the Hallmark of the Islamic mentality I might add and the results are all too similar. They pretty much believe the Universe itself rotates around Islam.
Hollywood liberals helped create the violence and the sick culture we’re stuck with... they made their bed...
there is a certain mindset that makes up the majority of celebrity seekers, gawkers, seekers of public excitement and the like, and it seldom makes for an amiable place for most civilized people to be when “out on the town” at night - no matter how you make the area look
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