At the hotel bar, they tell me Johnny Knoxville just left. They say he’s too old to do stunts anymore, but he’s a nice guy. I’m staying at the Hollywood Roosevelt, which I find out later is iconic for several reasons: Shirley Temple did her iconic stair dance here, it was the home of the first Academy Awards, movie upon movie has been filmed here. It’s also haunted by either the ghost of Marilyn Monroe or a child in a blue dress named Caroline, which is a pretty wide net to cast in terms of ghosts. But the lights in my hotel room do flicker and randomly turn on, waking me from a deep sleep in the middle of the night.
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