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Originally posted by speeder
Guess that must be why it's Sydney Poitier's favorite restuarant, I always see him there w/ family. 
It is my good friend's place, I've eaten there about 1000 times and never seen you there once, David, but I guess you would know. Just like a Starbucks? No, Universal City Walk is just like a Starbucks.
Whatever, just trying to help a stranger avoid the usual gross tourist experience of L.A., do whatever you want. Go look at the star's footprints at the Chinese Theatre, I don't care. Most of the "what to see" advice that I see here makes me cringe. I've taken people from every corner of the globe to PACE and Il Sole, (including friends from Northern Minnesota, Africa, Asia, NYC), those are cool spots. Sorry that you had a bad experience the one time that you went. 
Too be real about it, the drive on Mulholland is 1/2 the experience, Downtown L.A. has a lot to see but I would rather check out the canyons on a hot summer night. 
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Haven't seen Sydney Portier in anything lately, either. Unless I missed something, it seems like he's an out-of-work actor...
But you're right: there's going to Mann-Chinese and staring at footprints, and there's looking at aged actors negotiate salad to their mouth. I imagine it's all a matter of how one enjoys their entertainment.
I like listening to old codgers recount watching Sandy Koufax pitch up in Chavez Ravine. Or while eating a beef dip sandwich at Philipe's, hearing an eighty-something-year-old Asian man recount how he lived a couple blocks away before being kicked out of his house and sent to Manzanar. Finding a good L.A. cop bar that hasn't been remodeled in 30 t0 40 yrs is very cool. Or if in Burbank, tracing the route of Walt Disney's private railroad. In short, I see enough Hollywood on TV; I simply don't choose to look at it while I eat.
