By Commander Coconut
A book I should've written: "Hollywood Remains to Be Seen." It's a guidebook
of sorts to where the stars are buried. On two of my trips to Los Angeles,
I had fun searching out Westwood cemetery, home to Marilyn Monroe's remains,
and the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, which has lots of oldie stiffs like
Rudolph Valentino and Cecil B. De Mille.
Marilyn's cemetery is small, but author Mark Masek designates it
"most stars per square foot" because it also has Truman Capote,
Natalie Wood, Eve Arden, Fanny Brice, Eva Gabor, Burt Lancaster,
Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau, Oscar Levant, Carroll O'Connor, Dean Martin
and Mel Torme, among others.
Forest Lawn-Glendale is probably the most star-studded. Masek
says it "is so large that it would take more than a day just to see
the highlights." Its residents include James Stewart, Ted Knight,
Robert Young, Clara Bow, Dorothy Dandridge, Walt Disney, Spencer Tracy,
James Whale, Norma Shearer, Clark Gable and Larry Fine.
Remember "Our Town"? I wonder if the stars and directors sit
around in chairs and talk amongst themselves as the dead people did
in Grovers Corners.
The Orlando Sentinal, Nov. 2, 2001:
Book of death