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Edith Wallace Grauman Auburndale, Mass...
...flesh and drug trades and fast fading into the sunset of American cultural history. Now Hollywood is trying to stage a comeback-a drive to revive a decayed area that still attracts 3 million tourists a year eager to see such bits of Americana as Mann's-formerly Grauman's-Chinese Theater and the footprints and signatures of movie stars immortalized in concrete. Says Mike Sims, director of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce: "We've got stars in the sidewalk, but iron bars on the doors...
...breaks through the wall of an adjoining sound stage, where a campy musical-tails, top hats and lots of white platforms-is being shot. In the ensuing effeminate uproar, hearty Slim Pickens punches out the jodhpur-clad director of the film next door, while Cleavon Little ducks out to Grauman's Chinese Theater and watches... Blazing Saddles...
...MacGraw is a movie star, and a movie star ought to have her hands and feet stuck into concrete. So decided Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, picking Ali as the 158th celebrity to get the concrete treatment outside its doorway (the last person so honored was Gene Kelly in 1969). To her dismay, Ali found the site crowded not only with fans but with demonstrators, who greeted the heroine of Love Story with rude placards. Urged one: LET US GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE. ALI MACGRAW, WHO ARE YOU!! Ali knelt anyway, pressed her extremities into...
...MORRIS GRAUMAN...