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On the way to the museum yesterday, I stopped by Hollywood Forever. Most Hollywood legends are either buried here or at Forest Lawn a bit to the Northwest near Griffith Park.
In addition to being a fully-functioning cemetary and mortuary, it's also a big tourist attraction. They publish maps of where famous celebrities are located, and they host concerts and outdoor movies, projected onto the wall of the very tall main mausoleum. 

It's on Santa Monica Blvd, nestled in the "working" part of Hollywood, and is surrounded by studios both large and small, as well as post-production companies. Paramount backs up to it on the South side. Our cousins live off of Melrose on the other side of Paramount, so Hollywood Forever is a short walk from their house. There's a family plot and some aunts and uncles have already moved in. Mrs. and I have been offered the opportunity to buy in, but seeing as how the Chuck Norris option is highly unlikely, we've decided to donate ourselves to science (Not that Chuck couldn't still do it, it's just that the C-130 is no longer a front-line piece of hardware, and might by hard to locate by the time of my demise).

In the middle of the big city, it's a very peaceful place to stroll around, with all sorts of trees offering shady repose, and the call of several peacocks can be heard here and there. My Staintune muffler was kept to a respectably low burble as we idled through the place.