Hold Your Applause

It’s bad enough that for two years the people in this area had to put up with the construction for the white elephant called Hollywood & Highland--you know, the place that charges $1 every 20 minutes to park. But now idiot city officials are closing the street down for a week for the Academy Awards.

Why? Security? Please, this is not downtown at the Shrine Auditorium, where nothing happens at night in the area anyway, and no one minds. There are businesses and residents living here. Hello? We can’t even take the Highland Avenue offramp to get home. All you need to do is close Hollywood Boulevard down for one day. If the city is going to do this every year, it can take take the awards back to the Shrine. Note to the academy: You are important and fun, but get over yourself.

Steve Menlo

Hollywood