Sights

L.A. is Studio City, so by necessity everything the billboards, the portions, the people has to appear eminently filmable and larger-than-life. There is simply much more space for the city, and its contents, to exist in. In such a widescreen locale, continuity is the major problem: how else to explain the architectural hotch-potch of the houses in the Beverly Hills, with their varying (often conflicting) styles, or the fact that the city which houses Richard Meiers pristine Getty Centre should also contain the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Hollyhock House, now sadly tumbledown and hidden from view, like a reclusive former star, at the very end of Hollywood Boulevard?