Dark Side of Hollywood with Scott Michaels of Dearly Departed Tours
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Today I'm on the corner of Bronson
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Avenue
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at the Dearly Departed Museum,
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the corner of Santa Monica. I'm doing a
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special tour.
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Should be fun. Welcome everyone. Adam
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the Woo here. Now, I have been inside
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the building to see Jane Mansfield. The
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car that she perished in in Louisiana is
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here in Los Angeles. Today I'm going to
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be focusing more on the tour aspect of
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Dearly Departed. Before we leave,
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however, going to meander around the
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lobby. We got a helter skelter pumpkin
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down here. We got Mickey Rooney's
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flowers from his grave site. And check
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this out. Get your hair done right next
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to these two creepy heads inside the
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bathroom. Look at this. The the male has
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lost his head. The woman has cut off the
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male's head. This Frankenstein photo,
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this picture was on display at Bella
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Losce's home. That's pretty freaking
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cool. And if you don't have a hankering
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for bubble gum, just put a quarter in
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and get yourself a shoe with a
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dismembered foot attached. The
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horrifying pirate statue from a haunted
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house in Detroit, Michigan. Look, look
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at this pirate. And behind him, I think
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the clowns behind them are probably they
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should belong in a haunted house as
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well. They even have Pugsley from the
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Adams family's ashes. Right down there
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is Pugsley. And to make this more of a
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special occasion, it's not just me. In
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the back is the carpet bagger, Jordan
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the Lion back there, and the one and
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only Scott Michaels, the death hag. Do
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you refer to yourself as the death hag?
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Yeah, I guess so. I
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You gave me the pen. You gave me
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I do. Yeah, it does.
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You gave me the pen here.
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Yeah, it's a term I made up for just
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people, you know, there's fame hags.
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There's people that are all about famous
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people and there's lots of other hags
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and yeah, death hag was just something I
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So I am now a vicarious death hag.
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Yeah, never vicarious at all. You're it.
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I'm itch.
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Thank you.
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Sitting on her sofa.
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The third apartment on the left down
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there was where Vampyra died.
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So Mr. Labianca, remember I told you he
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was in the Thunderbird haul in the boat
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behind him. They came up in this
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direction that we're in. The Labian
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house is the very next house. So Mr. and
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Mrs. Labian Bianca parked the car
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exactly where this is now. If you look
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at this swoop right there of that fence,
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it's immediately to our left.
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So, he parked the car in the boat here.
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Now, Mr. Lobian was a little bit weird
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about his boat. He always made sure that
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the boat was put away first thing in the
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morning. So, when Frank Jr. was dropped
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off the next evening, an entire day had
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passed and the boat was still here. So,
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that was a red flag for Frank Jun.
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Unfortunately, they modified the drive
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uh the front line quite a bit. And this
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is the house. Here's a photograph of the
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police officer standing in this
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driveway. The Labian house
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took place. Uh he called out, but nobody
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answered. So instead of going in, he got
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creeped out and he walked a couple of
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blocks to a burger joint, used the pay
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phone and called his sister. They picked
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him up. They let themselves in through
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the back door here and discovered the
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bodies. They ran screaming down the
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driveway towards us. They ran across the
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road through where this bus is right
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now, up this driveway on our right and
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up those stairs to the right and got to
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an apartment and they called the police.
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And in 1973, I think it was got a seven
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or life sentence with the possibility of
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parole in 7 years. So according to her
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her actual sentence, she was eligible
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for parole back in 1980. And
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she was eligible recently, right? And
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no, she was she was approved for parole
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recently. Governor denied it, right?
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The governor smacked it down there.
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So Leslie Van Halton still still in
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prison.
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Yeah. And I'm not She never killed
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anybody. I'm not defending her. I
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couldn't I can't imagine taking a knife
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and putting it into somebody, but there
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are a lot of people that done a lot
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worse than her and spent a lot less time
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in prison. And she was approved by the
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prison to be released. And the governor
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went no because it's political suicide.
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Leslie Van is now a political prisoner.
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To the right of it is that narrow
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alleyway and it's it's still there,
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right?
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Yeah.
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Okay. Cuz it's just an optical illusion
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with
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next to Gold Diggers.
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To the right of Gold Diggers is to Gold
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Diggers
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and down that alleyway is where uh the
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sound stage was. Now, there are scenes
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from the movie uh Glenner Glenda that
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shows Ed Wood in his man clothes uh
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walking out past that that address 5624
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and walking across the street. There
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were a few shops over here that he was
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sort of looking in the windows of. So if
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you ever to see the movie, you can match
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up that sign, that furniture 98 cent
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sign. You can match those signs up in
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the movie. And that doorway, the 5624
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doorway is still there. And uh so the
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actual sound stage where they shot it is
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down this.
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They shot plan N
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or Edwood.
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Edwood. Plan N. Edwood. Yeah.
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Right down there.
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Right down there. and the support
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potties down there. Now,
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the fences are still the same because
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you can still say it says Holly Grove
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and Steel on either side of the gates
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and the flag pole is there same as the
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and it looks a lot like it did when
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Marilyn was a little girl and uh she
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lived here two different times in her
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life cuz her mother was a film cutter at
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RKO which is now Paramount over you know
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what that globe was that's the old RKO
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globe. So her mother was a film cutter
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and but she couldn't be with her mother
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because her mother was institutionalized
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for a lot of the time. So anyway, the
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legend about Marilyn staring out the
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seconds story window of the orphanage
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watching down the alley at the lights
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for RKO Studios and dreaming of become a
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movie star.
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Oh yeah, check that out. You can see the
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water tower down the alleyway. The story
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stories are true. From the window, you
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can see the water tower. Karen Carpenter
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got her first drum set right in the side
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of this place that is now called
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Stein on Vine. This is the I mean this
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is like
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where the wrecking crew used to buy
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their stuff.
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Yes. Everybody did. Yeah. Corner unit.
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Not the very top because she didn't want
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the top for cuz it's too hot. And uh she
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kept her name and number published in
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the phone book until she died.
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This is where May West passed away. She
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owned the building.
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And uh then here's her phone number from
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the 1968 telephone directory. 570 North
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Rashmore.
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And if you look that now leasing sign is
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the same phone number. Oh, that's 391.
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Yeah, it's for sale again. It wasn't
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originally wasn't here. It was moved
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here.
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Yeah,
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the original Willard house. Not the one
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with Chris and Glover, not the remake,
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but the original.
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There's great shots of it that where
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they actually, you know, and the Adams
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family, too. You know, Carolyn Jones and
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which what Adams family? What era?
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It was a 1977 reunion movie. It was like
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12 15 years after the uh the show went
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off the air and everyone who was still
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alive was in it. The only one that was
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dead was uh Blossom Rock who played the
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grandmother.
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This house here belonged to Judy Garland
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from Wizard of Oz right there. Toto
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could have been frolicking in the yard.
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So in the movie um they used this a lot.
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They built an exterior on the sound
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stage too, but they use this for a lot
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of outside shots. Have you ever seen
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that one?
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This was in the movie Whatever Happened
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to Baby J.
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The extra features show that making of
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and has in 1989 there's a show on
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television called My Sister Sam. is that
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it starred Pam Dober, David Nutton, and
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a 21-year-old actress named Rebecca
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Schaefer. And Rebecca Schaefer had a
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stalker named Robert John Bardau, who
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hired a private detective to get her
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home address. The detective went to the
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DMV, the Department of Motor Vehicles.
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He paid the fee, which I think was like
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two bucks, got her home address, and
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gave it to her stalker. The address was
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120 North Sweetzer. Uh it's just around
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the corner. On the left, you'll see it's
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sort of a tutor style building. It was a
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Tuesday morning
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and Bardo approached the front door.
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It's just this uh
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this building with a little archway
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right here. And and he rang her
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doorbell. They didn't have an intercom.
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So, she came down and opened the door
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and spoke to him for a moment, signed an
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autograph for him, and he left. He went
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to get something to eat a couple of
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blocks from here. So, then he returned
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an hour later, rang the bell again, and
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this time she came down and said,
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"You're wasting my time now. Please
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leave me alone." He said, "I forgot to
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give you this." And he pulled a 3 350
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out of a plastic bag and shot her three
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times. A half a dozen people heard the
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screams, turned her seemed to see her
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slumped in the driveway or in the
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doorway right there. Him take off
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between those two buildings into the
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alleyway and he got away until the next
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day. They uh nobody was going to stop
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the lunatic with a gun that just shot
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the chick. You can't blame him. This was
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the old valet area of a place called
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Chason's where the drink the Shirley
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Temple was originated.
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Your father was Dominic Dunn, the the
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crime writer,
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the oldest sister in Poltergeist,
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part of the poltergeist. What do you
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think about the poltergeist curse?
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I don't I don't
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A lot of people buy into that.
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She was trying to break it off with him.
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She dumped him and she was inside the
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house running lines. She was in a show
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called V, a new show. And he came back
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here. Her boyfriend came back here. Why
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why I'm blanking on his name now? I
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don't know. But anyway, he came and
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knocked on the door. Now, David Packer
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was the actor who was inside with her
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and she says, "Wait here. I'm going to
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go outside and talk to him." So, out
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here they started screaming and Packer
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was she told him to stay inside. So, he
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was just staying there inside and he
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heard him screaming. He made a phone
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call to somebody saying if something
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happens, this is the guy who did it to
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him. He looks outside and Dominique is
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laying in the driveway and he's got his
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hands around her neck and he makes eye
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contact with Packer and says, "I killed
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my girlfriend." Pam Morrison's old uh uh
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boutique. She had like a psychedelic
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clothing boutique, which is where that
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rug shop is now. So, there's a there's
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one story about Morrison uh just being
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passed out in the bushes just over here
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on the right. And this is the uh Electra
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Records was
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there's Barney's Beanery where Janice
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Joplain carved her name
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into the table and Jim Morrison urinated
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and they have a plaque. You said they
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have a plaque dedicating that moment.
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Well, they don't dedicate it, but that's
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where it was. They didn't they didn't do
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it to his urine, but they did it to Jim
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Morrison in the spot where he peed.
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They just want you to know that Jim
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Morrison left his mark like a wolf.
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Yeah. Right. Phil Spectre recorded
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everything was over where the strip mall
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is now where the dentist is. That was
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the old studio where the whole wall of
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sound thing was. You know, Sher's first
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gig was singing background on Be My Baby
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with the Ronets.
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Oh, wow. I didn't I knew she sang there,
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but I didn't know that.
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And she sang background on You Lost That
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Love and Feeling, too. Sharers on those
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records. And with that, we're back on
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site at the museum. We're going to go
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inside and just take a look around. So,
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the family of Joan Crawford acknowledges
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with grateful appreciation your kind
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expression of sympathy. And it was Cindy
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Crawford Jordan. That's one of the
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twins.
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But yeah, these are all pieces of
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Look at this doll here welcoming us with
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open arms. And there is quite an
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assortment of very interesting
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paraphernalia inside. A piece of the
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fence from Jane Mansfield's Pink Palace
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according to the sign. See if you can
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see it. See if you can find the J and
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the M somewhere in there. Do you see the
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J and the M?
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How many different tours do you offer?
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If the general public came down here on
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any given day, what tours do you do on
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certain days and what's the details?
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Well, the standard departed tour goes
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every day at noon. That's without stop
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24
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days a week. Uh the other tours that we
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offer, the Helter sculpture tour that
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goes out on Saturday mornings. We do the
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uh the Karen Carpenter tour, the Carpent
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Tour that we do every year on the
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anniversary. We do an Ashley Nelly Olsen
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tour with this little Alison Ar
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and she was the the rebel rouser on
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Little House on the Prairie.
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She's a little Yeah. And that's
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in fact that's her book. Prairie
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is is her book. It's fun. She's a lot of
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fun.
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So if you do the tour, she's the guy.
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She hosts it and you know she'll go up
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to the Hollywood sign and she wears that
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she brings that funky curly wig with
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her. Oh, she's she has it all in check.
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She she gets she just has a big a big
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she's a scream.
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You have a website they go on to get
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more information.
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Dearly tourours.com is our website and
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you know you find all information about
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all the tours there. We have a rock and
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roll tour. We have a tour devoted to the
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doors. We're soon going to have a murder
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tour and fingers crossed finally get the
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OJ Simpson tour off the ground. So, uh
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lots of different things. We do lots of
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little different things.
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Check out this photo of Rock Hudson
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standing next to this bed post. And
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there's the bed post and the blanket
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that he was laying on in the in the bed
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that he died and special display
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dedicated to Divine. And this is the
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door from her apartment.
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Do you ever see uh Lust in the Dust?
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I never saw that one. I'm I'm familiar
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with Pink Flamingos obviously like
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everyone is.
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Well, there was a guy that is in Lust in
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the Dust. He was Well, he was in uh he
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was looking around. This guy was in here
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and he goes, "I was in that movie uh
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Lust in the Dust." I go, "Really?" He
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goes, "Yeah, I was a piano player." I
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go, "You're Red Dick." That was the
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guy's name. So, Red Dick was in my shop.
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And uh and uh and Tab Hunter was too. I
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got Tab to sign this thing for me. Lenny
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Cassan. Well, there's Red Dick.
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Oh, wow. Right there. There you go. That
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was his name in the movie.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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There you go. May West. Her false teeth
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are circling around there for all to
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see.
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False teeth of May West. That's going to
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do it from Dearly Departed Museum and
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the tour. I didn't show everything
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because obviously if you are in the Los
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Angeles area, if you're visiting
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Hollywood, come down and see the
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plethora of goodness that is behind
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there. And if you want other little
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tidbits, hints of things, Jordan, he did
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a video that at some point will be up on
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his channel. And he's with Jordan the
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Lion.
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Jacob the Carpet Bagger.
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Vloggers.
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What?
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You guys are vloggers. He is
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just him. I'm not I don't I don't vlog
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anymore. I don't vlog anymore.
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He's retired.
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I'm retired. Please subscribe to my
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See you in the next video.
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Vlog over.