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HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY'S summer film screenings attract a large crowd, right; Pixar Animation's Brave film poster, below. OPPOSITE: ANGELO FERRARIS; CREATIVE COMMONS BY SALINA CANIZALES bus excursion visits locations where 70 movie scenes from more than 55 movies were filmed (e.g., Vertigo, Mrs. Doubtfire, Basic Instinct, The Rock, The Pursuit of Happyness). Down the coast a bit, the Monterey Movie Tours wind through Monterey, Pacific Grove and Carmel, spotlighting locations of other films; still farther south, a more active tour put together by the Santa Barbara Bicycling Coalition cycles along two Sideways (2004) routes. You can also devise your own itinerary up and down the state and visit the locations of your favorite movies shot in California. Perhaps you're nostalgic for classic films represented by American Graffiti (1973), shot in downtown Petaluma in Sonoma County, and East of Eden (1955), filmed in Mendocino, or Some Like It Hot (1959) filmed at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. Or you want to retrace Tippi Hedren's steps in Alfred Hitchcock's iconic suspense film, The Birds, shot in Bodega Bay and other parts of Sonoma County and in San Francisco. In addition to these Northern and Southern California film locations, the Sacramento River delta has been used many times as a movie location, especially as a stand-in for the Mississippi delta. In the late 1950s, at least seven major movies were filmed in the Stockton area, such as God's Little Acre, The Big Country (with Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston), Miss Brooks, Porgy and Bess (Sammy Davis, Jr. and Pearl Bailey), Cool Hand Luke (1967) starring Paul Newman and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Indiana Jones' university exteriors). Studio Tours, TV Audiences & Extras Other ways to get a glimpse of the entertainment business are to take a studio tour, attend a live taping of a TV show or sign up to be an extra in a movie. Although there are movie studios in other parts of California, including Pixar Animation Studios and Lucasfilm in the San Francisco Bay Area, most are located in and around Los Angeles. Those that offer behind-the-scenes studio tours include Warner Bros. (peek into the costume and prop room for the Harry Potter movies), Universal, Sony Pictures (formerly the historic MGM studios famous for Gone with the Wind JAMES DEAN AND JULIE HARRIS in East of Eden (1955), filmed in Mendocino. HOLLYWOOD The Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, right, immortalizes entertainment titans with more than 2400 stars embedded in the pavement over 1.7 miles of sidewalk. For more on the Los Angeles area, see pages 102-106. 2 0 1 3 t r av e l g u i d e to c a l i f o rnia 5 5