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Sony Pictures Studio Tour

When you are in the LA area, it's kind of a rule that you've gotta do something Hollywood-y. If you're in town to do a taping of Wheel of Fortune, it only makes sense to have your Hollywood-y thing be a tour of the Sony Picture Studios in beautiful(?) Culver City.

While the price tag on the tour was a little steep, I justified it as a way to get a little more comfortable with all things Lights Camera Action, before I had my big day. But it was really just an excuse to do something that I knew would be really cool, and it totally was.

The coolness fell into two different categories. First, there was the "I've always wondered how they did that". One example of that was the sound effects room, a room filled with all sorts of crap with piecemeal flooring, where they record everything but the dialog. Super interesting. Or the sound mixing room. Or sound stages with sets*, green rooms, etc.

The other coolness category was the "I know that thing/place from TV/movies!". There were old movie , building facades, and more. It was neat to see how often a certain building would be reused for different shows, scenes, etc.

But really, the crowning glory of the tour was being able to see the sound stage where the set was set up. There was a neat museum documenting memorable moments, history, etc. There were replica *, rows and rows of Emmys, and a life size of the Man himself. I was in hog heaven. Someday I will be back here as a contestant. But until that day, this tour was good times!

Seeing how movies and TV are made is fun! Rubbing elbows with the stars...' assistants' valets, so much history, and lots of behind the scenes anecdotes made the Sony Picture Studios tour a great way to spend an afternoon! Plus it took my mind ever so slightly off my big day of taping the following day. Yikes! I mean, Yeehaw!

Monday July 14 2014

File under: travel, USA

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on Sun 20th Jul, 2014 01:04 pm CDT Horge said:
Haha. I read and commented on the above post before this one. I didn't mean you should literally gun-down Trebek. That would perhaps ruin your chances of standing behind one of the podiums. Or not, if the new host would be grateful for your part in facilitating his ascendancy...
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