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LIGHTS, CAMERA, ATTRACTIONS! ADULTS & KIDS $50 OR $65 Free Shuttle from Anaheim to Universal Studios Hollywood with the purchase of a General Admission ticket. www.pacificsunspots.com Call your travel agent to book. Offer valid through 12/31/06. Offer valid only on General Admission at Universal Studios Hollywood. Offer good for up to 6 people. Cannot be combined with other offers or per capita sightseeing tours. Prices subject to change without notice. No exchanges or refunds. Jurassic Park TM & ©2006 Universal Studios, Inc. and Amblin Entertainment, Inc. The Mummy ©2006 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved. 06-TRA-4738 Oh My, LA! All Access Pass LA INC.The Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau offers a new key to LA year-round fun: Head To The City of Angels For the LA All Access Pass.The pass provides entry A Heavenly Vacation to more than 35 Los Angeles attractions,museums and points of interest, visitors who purchase their LA card can use it to experience ith a warm, sunny climate, gentle ocean Seven Seas call into the port and offer pre- and much of what Los Angeles has to offer.The card Wbreezes and little rain, Los Angeles is the post-cruise packages. uses smart-chip technology so visitors use the ideal warm-weather getaway. Discover world- Once you’re in Los Angeles, it’s easy to get same card to gain admission to each LA sight of class shopping and dining, stunning art gal- around. Los Angeles International Airport interest without having to exchange cash and leries and impressive museums, a whole (LAX) is close to the beaches and only a 30- make payment at each location. year’s worth of festivals and fairs, family minute ride to Downtown. Shuttles, cabs and All Access Pass holders may visit Universal themes parks and wilderness hiking, all within limos are available. The Metro system in the Studios Hollywood’s myriad attractions and Los Angeles County limits. It’s all here, wait- city is widespread and efficient, making it easy get an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look on ing for you. to get around without a car.❋ the new 2006 Studio Tour; see up close the With a population of 9.5 million people, For more information, contact: home of the Oscars® at the Kodak Theatre and counting, Los Angeles County is a big Guided Tour in Hollywood; take a Red Line place that offers big vacation opportunity. 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Cruises, Holland America, Cunard and Regent LA INC. – A SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE AUGUST 2006 ISSUE OF CANADIAN TRAVELLER Published 12 times a year by 1104 Hornby Street, Suite 203 Vancouver, British Columbia Canada V6Z 1V8 Tel: (604) 699-9990 THE DESTINATION SALES RESOURCE FOR TRAVEL PROFESSIONALS Contents © 2006 by ACT Communications Inc. Fax: (604) 699-9993 Printed in Canada All Rights Reserved. ISBN 1207-1463 ON THE COVER: The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center hosts two intriguing exhibitions over the next 12 months. On display at the Museum Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai runs November 14, 2006 to March 4, 2007. The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai, Egypt, was built by Emperor Justinian in the 6th century and it is the world’s oldest continuously operating Christian monastery. The exhibition fea- tures a selection of artistic treasures from Saint Catherine’s, including 42 icons, six manuscripts, and several precious objects used in the celebration of the liturgy. Oudry’s Painted Menagerie, opens May 1 and runs through September 2, 2007. Jean-Baptiste Oudry was the principal animal painter and one of the leading decorative painters during the first half of Louis XV’s reign. Commissioned to paint a portrait series of the animals in the King’s royal menagerie at Versailles, Oudry produced life-sized paintings of a lion, antelope, a leopard and leopardess, and several other animals and exotic fowl. The exhibition of 14 paintings, includes a life-sized portrait of a famous rhinoceros named Clara, a small section of objet d’art reflecting “Clara-mania” and a group of 20 to 25 drawings. Credits: Main image © 2003 J. Paul Getty Trust. Insets: Saint Theodosia, The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt; photography by Bruce M. White, 2005; The Rhinoceros, Staatliches Museum Schwerin Kunstsammlungen, Schlösser und Gärten. LA INC. THE LOS ANGELES CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU 23 Canadian Traveller August 2006 Los Angeles 3 The Entertainment Capital LA Makes It, Lives It & Shows It Off ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES os Angeles offers an excitement and glam- classic musical, even spot a few celebrities. Hollywood is the heart of the entertain- L our that no other city can match. As epi- Hollywood is the heart of the entertainment industry, hosting the Academy center to the world’s entertainment industry, ment industry. From museums filled with Awards every year at the Kodak Theatre, LA runs on the breathless energy of people movie memorabilia (Hollywood Museum, (Beyoncé and Jay-Z arrive in 2005) and creating movies, television, music, videos and Frederick’s of Hollywood Celebrity Lingerie boasting a collection of museums and theatre. In this legendary land of palm trees, Hall of Fame, Hollywood Heritage Museum historic movie houses. beaches and big dreams, it can sometimes in the Lasky-DeMille Barn and Hollywood seem as though everyone – from gas station Wax Museum) to the D.W. Griffith-inspired attendants to corporate CEOs – has a screen- Hollywood & Highland entertainment com- last show. Hollywood Boulevard is also home play to flog or a project to produce, and every plex to the coveted bronze stars on the Walk of to two former Oscar ceremony sites: the waitperson is a fledgling actor or pop star. But Fame, Hollywood oozes entertainment. Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and Pantages what makes LA so special, so different from Jimmy Kimmel broadcasts live from the El Theatre. Visitors can arrive at any LA-area any other place, is that this is not a closed Capitan Entertainment Center on Hollywood attraction like a celebrity thanks to the many world. In fact, it’s remarkably open. Visitors Boulevard, adjacent to the El Capitan Theatre. limousine companies that offer round-the- can journey through Hollywood history, tour Visitors can take a behind-the-scenes tour of clock, door-to-door service in a host of vehi- movie studios, watch TV show tapings, hear the Kodak Theatre, home of the Academy cles ranging from Lincoln Town Cars to great music, from jazz to the LA Awards, to see a real Oscar statuette and seats Hummers to stretch limos. Philharmonic, take in an edgy new play or occupied by winners and nominees during the Studios love to take visitors through their 4 Los Angeles Canadian Traveller August 2006 24 LA INC. THE LOS ANGELES CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU lots to show them how movies are limited trailers) head to made. Universal Studios Hollywood Hollywood’s Arclight Cinemas. theme park’s interactive tour is a tram For a guaranteed celebrity ride through the studio’s backlot that sighting, obtain tickets to a TV takes in the sets of TV shows like show taping. Audiences Unlimited ROBERT LANDAU/LA INC. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and offers tickets for up to 60 shows, Crossing Jordan or movies like such as The King of Queens. Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds. Audience Associates also has a Visitors ride through the thrilling great selection, including Jeopardy new robot and computer-technology- and Wheel of Fortune. Because powered The Fast and the Furious: these tapings are always free, they Tokyo Drift that puts them up close tend to overbook, so it is wise to and personal with street racers, and arrive early. take a visit to King Kong’s Skull The performing arts scene in Island. In Burbank, Warner Bros. LA is one of the world’s most Studios’ two-hour VIP tour is tech- diverse, offering everything from nologically oriented, leaving guests Broadway musicals and plays at with a real feel for how shows such as the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark ER and The West Wing are developed. Taper Forum, Thousand Oaks No two tours are alike, but most Civic Center, Kodak Theatre and include visits to costume and prop Pantages Theatre to ethnic groups warehouses.

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