The Highlands

28 Jul

Saturday alone meant cleaning. Five hours later, I was only a living room and barely a kitchen into cleansing my apartment of hairballs, dust mites, ancient junk mail and scattered clothing I regularly toss on chairs, tables and floors during the week. Then the hubby came home and I stopped, I was done cleaning, tired and hungry. So what’s better than a movie with popcorn? Grauman’s Chinese Theatre was showing Harry Potter, so among the concrete molds and throngs of gawking, cargo-short wearing tourists, we went to the best theatre – right after ArcLight Cinemas – the city has to offer. Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, famous for their traffic stopping premieres, nearby Kodak Theatre (home to the Academy Awards) and adjacent (and newly erected) Madame Tussaud’s Wax Musueum, is a spacious and comfortable venue. It’s easy to arrive late and still have a sublime seat of your choosing. The movie was expectedly wonderful in plot, dialogue and cinematography and as is our habit, ColdStone was in order afterward, as well as a visit to the observation deck of the building deemed by Curbed LA as the “Ugliest Building” of 2007. From atop, you can view the costumed characters begging for a dollar (for a picture with them of course), along the most frequented of all Los Angeles attractions, the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The most invested of them being the White Angel (or the Black or Green one, depending on the night) out in flagrant dress.