Name: The Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Age: 63.
Appearance: Mysterious, lifesize, trivia-based board game.
What is it? A series of stars, rendered in terrazzo and brass, embedded in the pavement along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of intersecting Vine Street in Los Angeles.
How many stars are we talking? More than 2,700, each bearing the name of a legendary Hollywood luminary.
Such as? King Baggot, Rod La Rocque, Jetta Goudal and Snub Pollard.
I’ve never heard of any of them. They have also squeezed in Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Even so, it sounds rubbish. Not for nothing has the Hollywood Walk of Fame been named the world’s worst tourist attraction,
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