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The '''Hollywood Walk of Fame''' is a landmark which consists of 2,800<ref name="starcount">{{cite web|url=https://walkoffame.com/tim-burton/ |title=Tim Burton }}</ref> five-pointed [[terrazzo]]-and-[[brass]] stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of [[Hollywood Boulevard]] and three blocks of [[Vine Street]] in the [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] district of [[Los Angeles]]. The stars, the first of which were permanently installed in 1960, are monuments to achievement in the entertainment industry, bearing the names of a mix of actors, musicians, producers, directors, theatrical/musical groups, athletes, fictional characters, and others.
 
The Walk of Fame is administered by the [[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]] and maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. The Hollywood Chamber collects fees from chosen celebrities or their sponsors (currently $75,000) which fund the creation and installation of the star, as well as maintenance of the Walk of Fame.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://people.com/hollywood-walk-of-fame-rules-you-didnt-know-8431908#:~:text=Yes%2C%20it%20costs%20money%20to,of%20the%20Walk%20of%20Fame. |title=10 Rules About the Hollywood Walk of Fame You Probably Didn't Know (Exclusive) |work=People |last=Gibson |first=Kelsie |date=January 19, 2024 |access-date=January 31, 2025}}</ref> It is a popular tourist attraction, receiving an estimated 10{{nbsp}}million annual visitors in 2010.<ref name="Martin1"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://walkoffame.com/pages/licensing|title=Licensing for the Walk of Fame |publisher=Hollywood Walk of Fame|access-date=February 3, 2019|archive-date=February 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203150442/http://walkoffame.com/pages/licensing|url-status=live}}</ref>
'''Félix Pyat''' (4 October 1810 – 3 August 1889) was a French [[socialist]] journalist, playwright, politician and a leading figure of the [[Paris Commune]].
 
==BiographyDescription==
The Walk of Fame runs {{convert|1.3|mi|km}} from east to west on [[Hollywood Boulevard]], from [[Gower Street (Los Angeles)|Gower Street]] to the ''Hollywood and La Brea Gateway'' at [[La Brea Avenue]] in addition to a short segment on Marshfield Way that runs diagonally between Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea; and {{convert|0.4|mi|km}} north to south on [[Vine Street]] between Yucca Street and [[Sunset Boulevard]]. According to a 2003 report by the market research firm NPO Plog Research, the Walk attracts about 10 million visitors annually—more than the [[Sunset Strip]], the [[TCL Chinese Theatre]] (formerly Grauman's), the ''[[RMS Queen Mary|Queen Mary]]'', and the [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]] combined—and has played an important role in making tourism the largest industry in [[Los Angeles County]].<ref name="Martin1">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-feb-06-la-fi-walk-of-fame6-2010feb06-story.html|title=Golden milestone for the Hollywood Walk of Fame|last=Martin|first=Hugo|date=February 8, 2010|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324223751/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-feb-06-la-fi-walk-of-fame6-2010feb06-story.html|archive-date=March 24, 2019|url-status=live|access-date=June 1, 2020}}</ref>
He was born in [[Vierzon]] ([[Cher (department)|Cher]]), to an upper middle-class family. His father had been a priest before the [[French Revolution]], later secularizing, marrying, and becoming a lawyer and political [[Legitimist]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Blaisdell |first=Lowell L. |date=March 1923 |title=Félix Pyat, The ‘Evil Genius’ of the Commune of Paris|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/986959.|journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society |volume=132 |issue=4 |pages=331–332}}</ref> Pyat passed the Paris bar in 1831, but never practiced law instead throwing his whole energies into journalism.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Blaisdell |first=Lowell L. |date=March 1923 |title=Félix Pyat, The ‘Evil Genius’ of the Commune of Paris|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/986959.|journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society |volume=132 |issue=4 |pages=332}}</ref>
 
===Categorization===
During the 1830s and 1840s Pyat enjoyed success as a journalist, critic and playwright helped along by writers such as [[Jules Janin]], [[Henri LaTouche]], and [[George Sand]]. In politics Pyat's work took on an increasing anti-monarchist and pro-socialist, and [[romanticism|romantic]] stance. Important influences were [[Victor Hugo]] and [[Eugène Sue]].{{cite journal |last=Blaisdell |first=Lowell L. |date=March 1923 |title=Félix Pyat, The ‘Evil Genius’ of the Commune of Paris|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/986959.|journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society |volume=132 |issue=4 |pages=332}}</ref> The violent personal attacks in a pamphlet entitled ''Marie-Joseph Chénier et le prince des critiques'' (1844), in reply to [[Jules Janin]], brought him six months' sojourn in the Sainte-Pélagie prison, in the cell just vacated by [[Lamennais]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=675}} In 1846 he edited the collected works of [[Claude Tillier]] in four volumes and wrote a detailed introduction to Tillier's biography and work.<ref>''Œuvres de Claude Tillier, précédées d’une introduction par M. Félix Pyat.'' 4 vols. Nevers: C. Sionest impr.-éditeur 1846.</ref>
{{As of|2023}}, the Walk of Fame consists of 2,752 stars,<ref name=starcount/> which are spaced at {{convert|6|ft|m|adj=on}} intervals. The monuments are coral-pink [[terrazzo]] five-point stars rimmed with [[brass]] (not [[bronze]], an oft-repeated inaccuracy)<ref name="WOFFAQ">{{cite web|publisher = [[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]]|title = Walk of Fame Frequently Asked Questions|url = https://walkoffame.com/frequently-asked-questions/|access-date = May 13, 2011|archive-date = April 8, 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200408010421/https://walkoffame.com/frequently-asked-questions/|url-status = live}}</ref> inlaid into a charcoal-colored terrazzo background. The name of the honoree is inlaid in brass block letters in the upper portion of each star. Below the inscription, in the lower half of the star field, a round inlaid brass emblem indicates the category within the entertainment industry of the honoree's contributions. There are six fixed categories and honorees must fit into one of them.<ref name="WOFFAQ"/> The six categories and their emblems are:
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*[[File:Walk of Fame Category Motion Pictures.jpg|50px|alt=Circular 4-inch brass plaque showing a side view of a classic movie camera.]] '''Classic film camera''' representing [[film|motion pictures]].
*[[File:Walk of Fame Category Television.jpg|50px|alt=Circular 4-inch brass plaque with a tube-type television with twin aerials.]] '''Television receiver''' representing [[Terrestrial television|broadcast television]].
*[[File:Walk of Fame Category Recording.jpg|50px|alt=Circular 4-inch brass plaque with a top view of phonograph disc and pickup arm.]] '''Phonograph record''' representing [[Sound recording and reproduction|audio recording]] or [[music]].
*[[File:Walk of Fame Category Radio.jpg|50px|alt=Circular 4-inch brass plaque with an antique studio-style microphone.]] '''Radio microphone''' representing [[Radio broadcasting|broadcast radio]].
*[[File:Walk of Fame Category Theater.jpg|50px|alt=Circular 4-inch brass plaque with the classic theatrical comedy/tragedy masks.]] '''Comedy/tragedy masks''' representing [[theater]]/[[Play (theater)|live performance]] (added in 1984).
**[[File:Walk of Fame Category Athletic trophy.png|50px|alt=Circular 4-inch brass plaque with athletic trophy]] '''Athletic trophy''' representing [[sport|sports entertainment]] (added in 2023).
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Of [[List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame|the stars on the Walk to date]], 47% have been awarded in the motion pictures category, 24% in television, 17% in audio recording or music, 10% in radio, fewer than 2% in theater/live performance, and fewer than 1% in sports entertainment.<!--Simple arithmetic on the List itself. Per [[WP:CALC]], discussed in Talk, consensus obtained. Need link to the List in the para, or previous to it.--> According to the [[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]], approximately 30 new stars are added to the Walk each year.<ref name="WOFFAQ"/>
 
===Star locations===
He worked with other dramatists in a long series of plays, with an interval of six years on the National, until the [[French Revolution of 1848|revolution of 1848]]. [[George Sand]], whom he had introduced in 1830 to the staff of ''[[Le Figaro]]'', now asked [[Ledru-Rollin]] to make him commissary-general of the Cher. After three months' tenure of this office he was elected by the Cher department to the [[constituent assembly]], where he voted with [[the Mountain]], and brought forward the celebrated motion for the abolition of the presidential office.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=675}}
[[File:20161005_Broadway_Hollywood_Building_from_Hollywood_and_Vine_(2).jpg|thumb|The intersection of the Walk's two main streets ([[Hollywood Boulevard]] and [[Vine Street]]) pictured in 2016 with the [[Broadway Hollywood Building]] in the background]]
Stars of many particularly well-known celebrities are found in front of the TCL (formerly Grauman's) Chinese Theatre. Oscar-winners' stars are usually placed near the [[Dolby Theatre]],{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} site of the annual [[Academy Awards]] presentations. Locations are occasionally chosen for ironic or humorous reasons: [[Mike Myers]]'s star lies in front of an adult store called the International Love Boutique,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2002/07/27/mike-myers-gets-a-star-on-hollywood-walk-of-fame/28406493007/|title=Mike Myers gets a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame|date=2002-07-27|publisher=Herald-Tribune|accessdate=2024-01-10|archive-date=July 28, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230728014936/https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2002/07/27/mike-myers-gets-a-star-on-hollywood-walk-of-fame/28406493007/|url-status=live}}</ref> an association with his [[Austin Powers (film series)|Austin Powers]] roles; [[Roger Moore]]'s star and [[Daniel Craig]]'s star are located at 7007 Hollywood Boulevard in recognition of their titular role in the [[James Bond 007]] film series;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ew.com/movies/watch-daniel-craig-get-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star/|title=Watch live as Daniel Craig gets Hollywood Walk of Fame star next to former James Bond Roger Moore|date=2021-10-06|publisher=Entertainment Weekly|accessdate=2024-01-10}}</ref> [[Ed O'Neill]]'s star is located outside a shoe store in reference to his character's occupation on the TV show ''[[Married ... with Children]]'';<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ed-oneills-walk-of-fame-star-in-front-of-shoe-store/|title=Ed O'Neill's Walk of Fame star in front of shoe store – Celebrity Circuit|work=CBS News|access-date=August 28, 2012|archive-date=December 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213101631/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ed-oneills-walk-of-fame-star-in-front-of-shoe-store/|url-status=live}}</ref> and The [[Dead End Kids]]' star is located at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard,<ref>{{cite web |title=The Dead End Kids |url=https://walkoffame.com/dead-end-kids/ |publisher=Hollywood Walk of Fame |access-date=December 15, 2024}}</ref> near the corner of LaBrea and Hollywood Boulevard.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WScZCgAAQBAJ|title=Behind Sach - The Huntz Hall Story|chapter=Introduction|publisher=BearManor Media|author=Jim Manago|date=March 22, 2015|access-date=January 10, 2024|archive-date=January 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110150539/https://books.google.com/books?id=WScZCgAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Honorees may request a specific location for their star, although final decisions remain with the Chamber.<ref name="Q&A"/> [[Jay Leno]], for example, requested a spot near the corner of Hollywood Blvd. and Highland Ave. because he was twice picked up at that location by police for [[Vagrancy (people)|vagrancy]] (though never actually charged) shortly after his arrival in Hollywood.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/leno-returns-to-scene-of-crime-for-hollywood-honor.aspx?pageID=438&n=leno-returns-to-scene-of-crime-for-hollywood-honor-2000-04-29 |title=Leno returns to scene of crime for Hollywood honor|date= April 29, 2000|publisher=Hurriyet Daily News|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103170003/http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/leno-returns-to-scene-of-crime-for-hollywood-honor.aspx?pageID=438&n=leno-returns-to-scene-of-crime-for-hollywood-honor-2000-04-29|archivedate=2017-01-03}}</ref> [[George Carlin]] chose to have his star placed in front of the KDAY radio station near the corner of Sunset Blvd. and Vine St., where he first gained national recognition.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entity_id=19830&source_type=A|title=Biographical information for George Carlin|publisher=Kennedy Center|access-date=July 30, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220184243/http://kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entity_id=19830&source_type=A|archive-date=February 20, 2009}}</ref> [[Lin-Manuel Miranda]] chose a site in front of the [[Pantages Theatre (Hollywood)|Pantages Theatre]] where his musicals, ''[[In The Heights]]'' and ''[[Hamilton (musical)|Hamilton]]'', played.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Hollywood-Walk-of-Fame-to-Honor-Lin-Manuel-Miranda-with-Star-501597091.html|title=Lin-Manuel Miranda Receives Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame|first=City News|last=Service|website=NBC Southern California|date=November 30, 2018|access-date=June 19, 2019|archive-date=May 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517212623/https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Hollywood-Walk-of-Fame-to-Honor-Lin-Manuel-Miranda-with-Star-501597091.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Carol Burnett]] explained her choice in her 1986 memoir: While working as an usherette at the historic Warner Brothers Theatre (now the [[Hollywood Pacific Theatre]]) during the 1951 run of [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s film ''[[Strangers on a Train (film)|Strangers on a Train]]'', she took it upon herself to advise a couple arriving during the final few minutes of a showing to wait for the next showing, to avoid seeing (and spoiling) the ending. The theater manager fired her on the spot for "insubordination" and humiliated her by stripping the epaulets from her uniform in the theater lobby. Twenty-six years later, at her request, Burnett's star was placed at the corner of Hollywood and Wilcox—in front of the theater.<ref name="Burnett">{{cite book|title=One More Time|url=https://archive.org/details/onemoretimememoiburn00burn|url-access=registration|last=Burnett|first=Carol|author-link=Carol Burnett|year=1986|publisher=Random House|location=New York|isbn=0-394-55254-7|edition=first|pages=[https://archive.org/details/onemoretimememoiburn00burn/page/194 194–95]}}</ref>
About this time he fought a duel with [[Proudhon]], who had called him the aristocrat of democracy. He joined Ledru-Rollin in the attempted insurrection of 13 June 1849, after which he sought refuge in Switzerland, Belgium, and finally in England,{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|pp=675–676}} where he became involved with the irregular [[freemasonry|masonic]] organisation, [[Rite of Memphis-Misraim|La Grande Loge des Philadelphes]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}} For having glorified regicide after Orsini's attempt on the life of [[Napoleon III]] he was brought before an English court, but acquitted, and the general amnesty of 1869 permitted his return to France. However, further outbursts against the authorities, followed by prosecution, compelled him to return to England.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=676}}
 
===Alternative star designs===
The deposing of Napoleon III on 4 September 1870 brought him back to Paris, and it was he who in his paper ''[[Le Combat]]'' displayed a black-edged announcement of the negotiations for the surrender of [[Metz]] to the Prussians. After the insurrection of 31 October he was imprisoned for a short time. In January 1871, ''Le Combat'' was suppressed, only to be followed by an equally virulent ''[[Vengeur]]''.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=676}}
Special category stars recognize various contributions by corporate entities, service organizations, and special honorees, and display emblems unique to those honorees.<ref name="LATSpecial">{{cite web|title=Special Stars – Page 1 – Hollywood Star Walk|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=May 18, 2011|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/type/special/page/1/|archive-date=November 23, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123035344/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/type/special/page/1/|url-status=live}}</ref> Many special category stars honor people or organizations important to Los Angeles: former Los Angeles mayor [[Tom Bradley (American politician)|Tom Bradley]]'s star displays the [[Seal of Los Angeles|seal of the city of Los Angeles]];<ref name="HeraldBradley">{{cite news|title=Mayor gets Hollywood star|newspaper=[[The Albany Herald]]|page=2A|agency=AP|date=June 26, 1993|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=k8pEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2515,4997125&hl=en|via=Google News Archive|access-date=April 1, 2020|archive-date=March 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309040804/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=k8pEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2515,4997125&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/tom_lohdan/2303230119/|title=Hollywood Walk Of Fame Stars – Mayor Tom Bradley|last=Lohdan|first=Tom|date=December 31, 2007|publisher=Flickr|access-date=May 18, 2011|archive-date=November 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105231739/http://www.flickr.com/photos/tom_lohdan/2303230119/|url-status=live}}<!--ok as 2nd source – better picture.--></ref> the [[Los Angeles Police Department]] (LAPD) star emblem is a replica of a Hollywood Division badge;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lapdblog.typepad.com/lapd_blog/2006/05/dscf2995.html|author=Beck, Charlie |title= Hollywood Area|date=May 10, 2006|publisher=Los Angeles Police Department Blog |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230610223322/https://lapdblog.typepad.com/lapd_blog/2006/05/dscf2995.html |archive-date= Jun 10, 2023 }}</ref> the [[Los Angeles Times]] star displays the [[Los Angeles Times building|Los Angeles Times Building]];<ref>{{Cite web |title=Los Angeles Times |url=https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/los-angeles-times/index.html |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |language=en}}</ref> and the star for the local [[KTLA|KTLA television station]] depicts a satellite dish.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Los Angeles Times |url=https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/los-angeles-times/index.html |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |language=en}}</ref> Stars representing corporations, such as [[Victoria's Secret]] and the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]], display the honoree's corporat letter e.<ref name="LATSpecial"/><ref name="HWOFCats">{{cite web|title=The Star Categories|publisher=HWOF LLC|access-date=May 17, 2011|url=http://hwof.com/about/categories/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305035214/http://hwof.com/about/categories/|archivedate=2011-03-05}}</ref> Likewise, stars representing non-corporate entities, such as the [[The Recording Academy|Recording Academy]] and the [[Screen Actors Guild]], also display the honoree's logo.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Recording Academy |url=https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/the-recording-academy/index.html |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Screen Actors Guild |url=https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/screen-actors-guild/index.html |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |language=en}}</ref> The "Friends of the Walk of Fame" monuments are charcoal terrazzo squares rimmed by miniature pink terrazzo stars displaying the then five standard category emblems,<ref>a sixth category was added in 2023</ref> along with the sponsor's corporate logo, with the sponsor's name and contribution in inlaid brass block lettering.<ref name="LATAbs"/><ref>{{cite magazine|title=L'Oreal Paris celebrates 100 years by helping to restore the Hollywood 'Walk of Fame'|url=https://us.fashionnetwork.com/news/l-oreal-paris-celebrates-100-years-by-helping-to-restore-the-hollywood-walk-of-fame-,502605.html|date=October 14, 2009|magazine=Fashion Network |agency=Reuters |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131182219/https://us.fashionnetwork.com/news/l-oreal-paris-celebrates-100-years-by-helping-to-restore-the-hollywood-walk-of-fame-,502605.html |archive-date= Jan 31, 2024 }}</ref> Special stars and Friends monuments are granted by the [[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]] or the Hollywood Historic Trust, but are not part of the Walk of Fame proper and are located nearby on private property.<ref name="LATAbs">{{cite news|last=Semuels|first=Alana|date=July 22, 2008|title=Hollywood, brought to you by...|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|page=B6|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-22-me-sponsor22-story.html <!--ALT: http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/22/local/me-sponsor22--> |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200808021524/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-22-me-sponsor22-story.html |archive-date= Aug 8, 2020 }}</ref><ref name="WaTimes">{{cite news|last=Torrance|first=Kelly Jane|date=August 29, 2008|title=Fame has its price|newspaper=The Washington Times|access-date=May 18, 2011|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/29/fame-has-its-price/?page=all#pagebreak}}</ref>
 
The monuments for the [[Apollo 11]] mission to the Moon are uniquely shaped: Four identical circular moons, each bearing the names of the three [[astronaut]]s ([[Neil Armstrong|Neil A. Armstrong]], [[Buzz Aldrin|Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.]], and [[Michael Collins (astronaut)|Michael Collins]]), the date of the [[Moon landing|first Moon landing]] ("7/20/69"), and the words "Apollo XI", are set on the four corners of the intersection of [[Hollywood and Vine]].<ref name="LATApollo">{{cite web|title=Hollywood Star Walk: Apollo Landing|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=May 18, 2011|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/apollo-landing/|archive-date=November 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120095349/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/apollo-landing/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Elected to the [[National Assembly of France]], he retired from [[Bordeaux]], where it sat, with [[Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay|Henri Rochefort]] and others until such time as the so-called "parricidal" vote for peace should be annulled. He returned to Paris to join the Committee of Public Safety, and, in [[Hanotaux]]'s words, was the {{lang|fr|me ulcre}} of the [[Paris Commune]], but was blamed for the loss of the fort of [[Issy-les-Moulineaux|Issy]]. He was superseded on the committee by [[Delescluze]], but he continued to direct some of the violent acts of the Commune, the overthrow of the Vendôme column, the destruction of [[Adolphe Thiers]]'s residence and of the [[Atonement in Christianity|expiatory chapel]] built to the memory of [[Louis XVI]]. He escaped the vengeance of the Versailles government, crossed the frontier in safety, and, though he had been condemned to death in his absence in 1873, the general amnesty of July 1880 permitted his return to Paris.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=676}}
 
==History==
He was elected to the [[Chamber of Deputies (France)|Chamber of Deputies]] for the department of [[Bouches-du-Rhône]] in March 1888 and took his seat on the extreme Left, but died at [[Saint-Gratien, Val-d'Oise|Saint-Gratien]] the following year.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=676}}
===Origin===
[[File:Hollywood boulevard from kodak theatre.jpg|thumb|The Walk of Fame at the 6800 block of Hollywood Boulevard with the [[Dolby Theatre]] in the foreground and the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue]]
The [[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]] credits E.M. Stuart, its volunteer president in 1953, with the original idea for creating a Walk of Fame. Stuart reportedly proposed the Walk as a means to "maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamour and excitement in the four corners of the world".<ref name="historyof">{{cite web|title=History of the Walk of Fame|work=Hollywood Walk of Fame|publisher=[[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]]|url=http://www.walkoffame.com/pages/history|access-date=May 16, 2011|archive-date=October 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027173256/http://walkoffame.com/pages/history|url-status=live}}</ref> Harry Sugarman, another Chamber member and president of the Hollywood Improvement Association, received credit in an independent account.<ref name="LA Magazine">{{cite magazine|last=Rozbrook|first=Roslyn|issue=February 1998|title=The Real Mr. Hollywood|magazine=Los Angeles Magazine|date=February 1998|page=20|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9V0EAAAAMBAJ&q=hollywood+walk+of+fame+sugarman&pg=PA20|access-date=June 6, 2010
}}</ref> A committee was formed to flesh out the idea, and an architectural firm was retained to develop specific proposals. By 1955, the basic concept and general design had been agreed upon, and plans were submitted to the [[Los Angeles City Council]].<ref name="latimes.com"/><ref>''[[Lincoln Journal Star]]'', June 27, 2006 – [https://journalstar.com/entertainment/how-do-you-get-a-walk-of-fame-star/article_097a3d51-57e5-55c4-8a51-aca255ac5552.html How do you get a Walk of Fame star? – The Associated Press] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301061428/https://journalstar.com/entertainment/how-do-you-get-a-walk-of-fame-star/article_097a3d51-57e5-55c4-8a51-aca255ac5552.html |date=March 1, 2020 }}</ref><ref>''[[East Bay Times]]'', July 1, 2006 – [https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2006/07/01/how-stars-get-stars-on-walk-of-fame/ How stars get stars on Walk of Fame By Associated Press and Sandy Cohen] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301061427/https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2006/07/01/how-stars-get-stars-on-walk-of-fame/ |date=March 1, 2020 }}</ref>
 
Multiple accounts exist for the origin of the star concept. According to one, the historic [[Hollywood Hotel]], which stood for more than 50 years on Hollywood Boulevard at the site now occupied by the [[Ovation Hollywood|Ovation Hollywood complex]] and the [[Dolby Theatre|Dolby (formerly Kodak) Theatre]]<ref>Garcia, Courtney (June 11, 2012) [https://www.reuters.com/article/entertainment-us-oscars-dolby-idUSBRE85A1MH20120611 "Out with Kodak, in with Dolby at home of Oscars"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516072326/https://www.reuters.com/article/entertainment-us-oscars-dolby-idUSBRE85A1MH20120611 |date=May 16, 2021 }}. Reuters. Retrieved December 11, 2013.</ref>—displayed stars on its dining room ceiling above the tables favored by its most famous celebrity patrons, and that may have served as an early inspiration.<ref name="latimes.com">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hollywood-walk-of-fame6-2010feb06-pictures,0,3869071.photogallery|title=The Hollywood Walk of Fame {{!}} A brief history in photos|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=May 31, 2010|archive-date=August 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120811143755/http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hollywood-walk-of-fame6-2010feb06-pictures,0,3869071.photogallery|url-status=live}}</ref> By another account, the stars were "inspired ... by Sugarman's Tropics Restaurant drinks menu, which featured celebrity photos framed in gold stars".<ref name="LA Magazine"/><ref>{{cite web|first=Martin|last=Townsend|title=Los Angeles History – Extinct Restaurants & Cafes S-Z|publisher=LATimeMachines.com|url=http://www.latimemachines.com/new_page_43.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061020123952/http://www.latimemachines.com/new_page_43.htm|archive-date=October 20, 2006|access-date=June 26, 2010}}<!--ownership only--></ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
*{{EB1911|wstitle=Pyat, Felix|volume=22|pages=675–676}}
 
In February 1956, a prototype was unveiled featuring a [[caricature]] of an example honoree ([[John Wayne]], by some accounts<ref>{{cite book|last=Thomson|first=David|title=The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood|publisher=Vintage|year=2006|isbn=0-375-70154-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/wholeequationhi00thom/page/149 149]|url=https://archive.org/details/wholeequationhi00thom/page/149}}</ref>) inside a blue star on a brown background.<ref name="historyof"/> However, caricatures proved too expensive and difficult to execute in brass with the technology available at the time, and the brown and blue motif was vetoed by [[Charles E. Toberman]], the legendary real estate developer known as "Mr. Hollywood", because the colors clashed with a new building he was erecting on Hollywood Boulevard.<ref name="historyof"/><ref>{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Gregory Paul|year=2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9W4R_CZtFe8C|title=The Story of Hollywood: An Illustrated History|publisher=BL Press|isbn=978-0-9776299-0-9|access-date=July 27, 2010}}</ref>
==Further Readings==
 
* Blaisdell, Lowell L. “Félix Pyat, The ‘Evil Genius’ of the Commune of Paris.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 132, no. 4 (1988): 330–70. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/986959].
===Selection and construction===
* *{{Cite book |last=Horne |first=Alistair |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/922079975 |title=The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870–71 |date=2012 |publisher=Picador |oclc=922079975}}
By March 1956, the final design and coral-and-charcoal color scheme had been approved. Between the spring of 1956 and the fall of 1957, 1,558 honorees were selected by committees representing the four major branches of the entertainment industry at that time: motion pictures, television, audio recording, and radio. The committees met at the [[Brown Derby]] restaurant,<ref name="ap2006">{{cite news|url=https://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/preview/articles/0630walkoffame0630.html<!--was http://www.azcentral.com/ent/movies/articles/0630walkoffame0630.html-->|title=Price of Fame in Hollywood? $15,000|author=Cohen, Sandy|newspaper=The Arizona Republic|date=June 30, 2006|access-date=June 27, 2009|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20131213034320/http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/preview/articles/0630walkoffame0630.html|archivedate=2013-12-13}}</ref> and they included such prominent names as [[Cecil B. DeMille]], [[Samuel Goldwyn]], [[Jesse L. Lasky]], [[Walt Disney]], [[Hal Roach]], [[Mack Sennett]], and [[Walter Lantz]].<ref name="historyof"/>
 
{{stack|[[File:Hwof joanne woodward.jpg|thumb|[[Joanne Woodward]]'s star, contrary to popular belief, was not the first.]]}}
A requirement stipulated by the original audio recording committee (and later rescinded) specified minimum sales of one million records or 250,000 albums for all music category nominees. The committee soon realized that many important recording artists would be excluded from the Walk by that requirement. As a result, the [[National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences]] was formed to create a separate award for the music industry, leading to the first [[Grammy Award]]s in 1959.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aSBAAAAAIBAJ&pg=3612,4838071&dq=paul+weston+grammy&hl=en|title=Bronze Stars Begot Grammy|date=1976-02-22|page=13|newspaper=The Robesonian|location=Lumberton, N.C.|access-date=2011-05-23|archive-date=December 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231012805/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aSBAAAAAIBAJ&pg=3612,4838071&dq=paul+weston+grammy&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Construction of the Walk began in 1958, but two lawsuits delayed completion. The first lawsuit was filed by local property owners challenging the legality of the $1.25 million tax assessment (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|1.25|1958|r=0}} million in {{Inflation/year|US}}) levied upon them to pay for the Walk, along with new street lighting and trees. In October 1959, the assessment was ruled legal.<ref name="historyof"/> The second lawsuit, filed by [[Charles Chaplin Jr.]], sought damages for the exclusion of his father, whose nomination had been withdrawn due to pressure from multiple quarters. Chaplin's suit was dismissed in 1960, paving the way for completion of the project.<ref name="historyof"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/167734333|title=Judge Refuses Chaplin Walk of Fame Request|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=1960-08-11|page=B2|access-date=2010-06-11|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107162411/https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/doc/167734333.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Aug%2011,%201960&author=&pub=Los%20Angeles%20Times&edition=&startpage=&desc=Judge%20Refuses%20Chaplin%20Walk%20of%20Fame%20Request|archive-date=2014-11-07|id={{ProQuest|167734333}} }} {{subscription required}}</ref><ref name="LATimesWhy">{{cite news|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/about/#no-love|title=Why doesn't Clint Eastwood have a star?|access-date=May 20, 2011|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|archive-date=June 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610020129/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/about/#no-love|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
While [[Joanne Woodward]] is often singled out as the first person to receive a star on the Walk of Fame—possibly because she was the first to be photographed with it<ref name="Q&A">{{cite news|last=Thermos|first=Wendy|date=July 22, 2005|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jul-22-me-explainer22-story.html|title=Sidewalk Shrine to Celebrities Twinkles With Stars|page=2|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=August 31, 2010}}</ref>—the original stars were installed as a continuous project, with no individual ceremonies. Woodward's name was one of eight drawn at random from the original 1,558 and inscribed on eight prototype stars that were built while litigation was holding up permanent construction.<ref>{{cite news|last=Conklin|first=Ellis E.|date=October 30, 1986|title=Hollywood's Walk On The Mild Side Of Fame|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|agency=[[Los Angeles Daily News]]|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1986/10/30/hollywoods-walk-on-the-mild-side-of-fame/|access-date=October 21, 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206131339/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-10-30/features/8603210766_1_hollywood-chamber-gower-street-star-struck-admirers/2|archive-date=December 6, 2013}}<!--full text--> (, )</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LA&p_theme=la&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF5107276D88A24&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|date=October 26, 1986|newspaper=[[Daily News of Los Angeles]] (CA)|title=Walk of Whimsy|publisher=Knight-Ridder, Mediastream|access-date=May 22, 2011|archive-date=October 25, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025105832/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LA&p_theme=la&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF5107276D88A24&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|url-status=live}}{{subscription required}} ([https://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=revered%2Bhollywood%2Bwalk%2Bof%2Bfame+drawn+from+a+hat+&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&ned=us&btnG=Search+Archives text verif.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910075422/https://news.google.com/home?as_drrb=a&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en |date=September 10, 2024 }})</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Ellis|last=Conklin|agency=[[Los Angeles Daily News]]|title=Top Stars Missing on Hall of Fame|newspaper=[[Ottawa Citizen]]|date=October 30, 1986|page=D17|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jsAyAAAAIBAJ&pg=1318,5172428&dq=star+grant+said+they+did+and+on+feb&hl=en|access-date=April 1, 2020|archive-date=March 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309003047/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jsAyAAAAIBAJ&pg=1318,5172428&dq=star+grant+said+they+did+and+on+feb&hl=en|url-status=live}} (Google news archive)</ref> The eight prototypes were installed temporarily on the northwest corner of Hollywood Boulevard and [[Highland Avenue (Los Angeles)|Highland Avenue]] in August 1958 to generate publicity and to demonstrate how the Walk would eventually look.<ref name="historyof"/> The other seven names were [[Olive Borden]], [[Ronald Colman]], [[Louise Fazenda]], [[Preston Foster]], [[Burt Lancaster]], [[Edward Sedgwick]], and [[Ernest Torrence]].<ref name="historyof"/><ref name="Wana">{{cite book|title=Hollywood 1940–2008|first=Marc|last=Wanamaker|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2009|url=https://archive.org/details/hollywood19402000000wana|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/hollywood19402000000wana/page/18 18]|isbn=978-0-7385-5923-0|access-date=May 22, 2011}}</ref> Official groundbreaking took place on February 8, 1960.<ref name="latimes.com"/> On March 28, 1960, the first permanent star, director [[Stanley Kramer]]'s, was completed on the easternmost end of the new Walk near the intersection of Hollywood and Gower.<ref name="historyof"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://latimes.newspapers.com/image/381016309/?terms=%22Kramer%20First%20Name%20Put%20in%20Walk%20of%20Fame%22&match=1|title=Kramer First Name Put in Walk of Fame|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=March 29, 1960|page=15|access-date=June 12, 2010|url-access=subscription|archive-date=January 31, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131185047/https://latimes.newspapers.com/image/381016309/?terms=%22Kramer%20First%20Name%20Put%20in%20Walk%20of%20Fame%22&match=1|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
===Stagnation and revitalization===
Although the Walk was originally conceived in part to encourage redevelopment of Hollywood Boulevard, the 1960s and 1970s were periods of protracted [[urban decay]] in the Hollywood area as residents moved to nearby suburbs.<ref>{{cite news|last=Shuitt|first=Doug|date=April 16, 1972|url=https://latimes.newspapers.com/image/385514845/?terms=%22The%20Old%20Glamor%20Has%20Vanished%22&match=1|title=Hollywood Blvd.---The Old Glamor Has Vanished|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2010-06-09|url-access=subscription|archive-date=January 31, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131185332/https://latimes.newspapers.com/image/385514845/?terms=%22The%20Old%20Glamor%20Has%20Vanished%22&match=1|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Vincent1">{{cite news|author=Vincent, Roger|date=May 6, 2008|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-may-06-fi-hollyangst6-story.html|title=Neighborhood face-lift gives Hollywood pause|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=May 24, 2011|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910075422/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-may-06-fi-hollyangst6-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> After the initial installation of approximately 1,500 stars in 1960 and 1961, eight years<!--[[WP:CALC]]--> passed without the addition of a new star. In 1962, the [[Los Angeles City Council]] passed an ordinance naming the [[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]] "the agent to advise the City" about adding names to the Walk, and the Chamber, over the following six years, devised rules, procedures, and financing methods to do so.<ref name="historyof"/>
In December 1968, [[Richard D. Zanuck]] was awarded the first star in eight years in a presentation ceremony hosted by [[Danny Thomas]].<ref name="historyof"/><ref name="ap2006"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uP5XAAAAIBAJ&pg=2861,1539705&dq=zanuck+1968+star+walk+of+fame&hl=en|title=Walk of Fame|newspaper=[[The Bulletin (Bend)|The Bulletin]]|date=December 12, 1968|page=20|agency=UPI Telephoto|access-date=April 1, 2020|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910075423/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uP5XAAAAIBAJ&pg=2861,1539705&dq=zanuck+1968+star+walk+of+fame&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref> In July 1978, the city of Los Angeles designated the Hollywood Walk of Fame a [[List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in Hollywood|Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM) Report – Community: Hollywood|publisher=Department of City Planning|location=City of Los Angeles|access-date=May 31, 2010|url=http://cityplanning.lacity.org/complan/HCM/dsp_hcm_result.cfm?community=Hollywood|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926231328/http://cityplanning.lacity.org/complan/HCM/dsp_hcm_result.cfm?community=Hollywood|archive-date=September 26, 2007}}</ref>
 
{{stack|[[File:Joe Pasternak Allan Warren.jpg|thumb|Johnny Grant, center, at the July 29, 1991 presentation ceremony for producer [[Joe Pasternak]], on the right. At left is [[Gene Kelly]].]]}}
Radio personality, television producer, and Chamber member [[Johnny Grant (radio personality)|Johnny Grant]] is generally credited with implementing the changes that resuscitated the Walk and established it as a significant tourist attraction.<ref name="ap2006"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Honorary mayor of Hollywood dies|first=Jeff|last=Wilson|date=2008-01-11|agency=AP|page=2A|newspaper=[[The Post and Courier]]|location=[[Charleston, South Carolina]]|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lldSAAAAIBAJ&pg=3396,3238480&dq=grant+honorary-mayor-of-hollywood&hl=en}}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Beginning in 1968, Grant stimulated publicity and encouraged international press coverage by requiring that each recipient personally attend his or her star's unveiling ceremony.<ref name="ap2006"/> Grant later recalled that "it was tough to get people to come accept a star" until the neighborhood finally began its recovery in the 1980s.<ref name=Vincent1/>
 
In 1980, Grant instituted a fee of $2,500 ({{Inflation|US|2500|1980|fmt=eq}}), payable by the person or entity nominating the recipient, to fund the Walk of Fame's upkeep and minimize further taxpayer burden.<ref name="ap2006"/> The fee has increased incrementally over time. By 2002, it had reached $15,000 ({{Inflation|US|15000|2002|fmt=eq}}),<ref>{{cite web|title=Nomination Procedure|publisher=[[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]]|date=June 8, 2002|url=http://www.hollywoodchamber.net/walkoffame/nom_proc.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020608105215/http://www.hollywoodchamber.net/walkoffame/nom_proc.html|archive-date=June 8, 2002}}</ref> and stood at $30,000 in 2012 ({{Inflation|US|30000|2012|fmt=eq}}).<ref name="WOFFAQ"/> {{As of|2023}}, the fee was $75,000<!--({{Inflation|US|75000|2023|fmt=eq}})-->, about eight times the original amount adjusted for inflation.<ref name="Walk of Fame FAQs">{{cite web|url=https://walkoffame.com/faq/|title="Walk of Fame FAQs"|accessdate=2023-05-04|archive-date=May 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230504154410/https://walkoffame.com/faq/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Grant was himself awarded a star in 1980 for his television work.<ref name="historyof"/> In 2002, he received a second star in the "special" category to acknowledge his pivotal role in improving and popularizing the Walk.<ref name="JGrant">{{cite web|url=http://www.johnnygrant.com/index.php?page=4|title=The Official Site Of Johnny Grant, Hollywood's Honorary Mayor|work=johnnygrant.com|publisher=[[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]]|access-date=May 26, 2010|archive-date=July 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721235701/http://www.johnnygrant.com/index.php?page=4|url-status=live}}</ref> He was also named chairman of the Selection Committee and Honorary [[Mayor of Hollywood]] (a ceremonial position previously held by [[Art Linkletter]] and [[Monty Hall]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/167153542|title=Linkletter Installed as Hollywood 'Mayor'|page=B6|date=September 5, 1957|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=May 26, 2010|id={{ProQuest|167153542}}|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910075549/https://www.proquest.com/docview/167153542|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89161002|title=Pin-Up Queen Turns Hollywood Mayor Race Pink|date=March 27, 2008|publisher=NPR|first=Mandalit|last=del Barco|access-date=May 26, 2010|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910075425/https://www.npr.org/2008/03/27/89161002/pin-up-queen-turns-hollywood-mayor-race-pink|url-status=live}}</ref> among others).<ref name="historyof"/><ref name="JGrant"/> He remained in both offices from 1980 until his death in 2008 and hosted the great majority of unveiling ceremonies during that period. His unique special-category star, with its emblem depicting a stylized "Great Seal of the City of Hollywood",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hwof.com/star/special/johnny-grant/2448|title=Johnny Grant|publisher=HWOF LLC|access-date=May 26, 2011|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101030211136/http://hwof.com/star/special/johnny-grant/2448|archivedate=2010-10-30}}</ref> is located at the entrance to the Dolby Theatre adjacent to Johnny Grant Way.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.life.com/image/78898836|title=Johnny Grant Remembered On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame|magazine=Life Magazine|date=January 10, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610215733/http://www.life.com/image/78898836|archive-date=June 10, 2011<!--turn javascript off to view – as of Dec 2013 archive.org obscures the view-->|access-date=December 11, 2013}}</ref><ref name="GrantBio">{{cite web |title = Johnny Grant's Bio |url = http://www.johnnygrant.com/johnnygrantbio.html |publisher = JohnnyGrant.com |accessdate = 2008-01-09 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080116013603/http://www.johnnygrant.com/johnnygrantbio.html |archive-date = 2008-01-16 }}</ref>
 
===Expansion===
In 1984, a fifth category, Live Theatre, was added to acknowledge contributions from the live performance branch of the entertainment industry, and a second row of stars was created on each sidewalk to alternate with the existing stars.<ref name="historyof"/>
[[File:Hollywood-walk-of-fame.jpg|thumb|upright|Hollywood Boulevard, 7000 block, north side, looking westward]]
 
In 1994, the Walk of Fame was extended one block to the west on Hollywood Boulevard, from Sycamore Avenue to North LaBrea Avenue (plus the short segment of Marshfield Way that connects Hollywood and La Brea), where it now ends at the silver "Four Ladies of Hollywood" gazebo and the special "Walk of Fame" star.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hwof.com/star/special/hollywood-walk-of-fame/3|title="Hollywood Walk of Fame" star|publisher=HWOF LLC|access-date=May 27, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814002405/http://hwof.com/star/special/hollywood-walk-of-fame/3|archive-date=2011-08-14}}</ref> At the same time, [[Sophia Loren]] was honored with the 2,000th star on the Walk.<ref name="historyof"/>
 
During construction of tunnels for the [[Los Angeles Metro Rail|Los Angeles subway system]] in 1996, the [[Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority|Metropolitan Transportation Authority]] (MTA) removed and stored more than 300 stars.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rescuing Elvis : Roadwork steals shine from icon's 'flaming star'|first=David|last=Bloom|newspaper=Los Angeles Daily News|date=December 4, 1996|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/RESCUING+ELVIS+%3a+ROADWORK+STEALS+SHINE+FROM+ICON%27S+%60FLAMING+STAR%27.-a084034046
|access-date=September 28, 2012|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205061053/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/RESCUING+ELVIS+%3a+ROADWORK+STEALS+SHINE+FROM+ICON'S+%60FLAMING+STAR'.-a084034046|archivedate=2013-12-05}}</ref> Controversy arose when the MTA proposed a money-saving measure of jackhammering the 3-by-3-foot terrazzo pads, preserving only the brass lettering, surrounds, and medallions, then pouring new terrazzo after the tunnels were completed;<ref>{{cite web|title=Giving stars their due; associations press MTA to preserve Hollywood icons| first=Rick|last=Orlov|publisher=Los Angeles Daily News (Free Online Library)|date=August 21, 1997|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/GIVING+STARS+THEIR+DUE%3B+ASSOCIATIONS+PRESS+MTA+TO+PRESERVE+HOLLYWOOD...-a083876638|access-date=September 28, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205065300/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/GIVING+STARS+THEIR+DUE%3B+ASSOCIATIONS+PRESS+MTA+TO+PRESERVE+HOLLYWOOD...-a083876638|archivedate=2013-12-05}}</ref> but the [[Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument|Cultural Heritage Commission]] ruled that the star pads were to be removed intact.<ref>{{cite web|title=Briefly: MTA told to save Walk of Fame tiles|publisher=Los Angeles Daily News (Free Online Library)|date=September 4, 1997|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/BRIEFLY+%3a+MTA+TOLD+TO+SAVE+WALK+OF+FAME+TILES.-a083877824|access-date=September 28, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013609/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/BRIEFLY+%3a+MTA+TOLD+TO+SAVE+WALK+OF+FAME+TILES.-a083877824|archive-date=2013-12-03}}</ref>
 
In 2023, a sixth category, Sports Entertainment, was added to acknowledge contributions of athletes to the entertainment industry.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://walkoffame.com/press_releases/michael-strahan-to-be-honored-with-first-hollywood-walk-of-fame-sports-entertainment-star/ | title=Michael Strahan to be Honored with First Hollywood Walk of Fame Sports Entertainment Star | access-date=August 10, 2023 | archive-date=September 10, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910075550/https://walkoffame.com/press_releases/michael-strahan-to-be-honored-with-first-hollywood-walk-of-fame-sports-entertainment-star/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
 
===Restoration===
[[File:Michael Landon's star on the Walk of Fame.jpg|thumb|[[Michael Landon]]'s star has a crack at its top]]
In 2008, a long-term restoration project began with an evaluation of all 2,365 stars on the Walk at the time, each receiving a letter grade of A, B, C, D, or F. Honorees whose stars received F grades, indicating the most severe damage, were [[Joan Collins]], [[Peter Frampton]], [[Dick Van Patten]], [[Paul Douglas (actor)|Paul Douglas]], [[Andrew L. Stone]], [[Willard Waterman]], [[Richard Boleslavsky]], [[Ellen Drew]], [[Frank Crumit]], and [[Bobby Sherwood]]. Fifty celebrities' stars received "D" grades. The damage ranged from minor cosmetic flaws caused by normal weathering to holes and fissures severe enough to constitute a walking hazard. Plans were made to repair or replace at least 778 stars at an estimated cost of over $4 million.<ref name="LAT22">{{cite news|last=Pool|first=Bob|date=July 22, 2008|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-22-me-walk22-story.html|title=Walk of Fame going to have a little work done|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=May 28, 2011|archive-date=August 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809003123/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-22-me-walk22-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
The restoration is a collaboration among the [[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]] and various Los Angeles city and county governmental offices, along with the MTA, which operates the [[B Line (Los Angeles Metro)|Metro B Line]] that runs beneath the Walk, since earth movement due to the presence of the subway line is thought to be partly responsible for the damage.<ref name="WOFfix">{{cite news|last=Pool|first=Bob|date=July 17, 2008|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-17-me-walk17-story.html|title=Walk of Fame fix won't be easy stroll|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=May 31, 2010|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910075426/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-17-me-walk17-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
To encourage supplemental funding for the project by corporate sponsors, the "Friends of Walk of Fame" program was inaugurated,<ref name="LAT22"/> with donors recognized through honorary plaques adjacent to the Walk of Fame in front of the Dolby Theatre.<ref name="LATAbs"/> The program has received some criticism; [[Alana Semuels]] of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' described it as "just the latest corporate attempt to buy some good buzz", and quoted a brand strategist who said, "I think Johnny Grant would roll over in his grave".<ref name="LATAbs"/>
 
Los Angeles introduced the "Heart of Hollywood Master Plan", which promotes the idea of closing Hollywood Boulevard to traffic and creating a [[pedestrian zone]] from La Brea Avenue to Highland Avenue, citing an increase in pedestrian traffic including tourism, weekly movie premieres<ref>{{cite web|url=http://onlyinhollywood.org/alerts/|title=Alerts Archive|website=Only In Hollywood|language=en|access-date=2020-01-31|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200121085515/http://onlyinhollywood.org/alerts/|archivedate=2020-01-21}}</ref> and award shows closures, including ten days for the Academy Award ceremony at the Dolby Theatre.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://la.curbed.com/2018/3/2/17072092/hollywood-boulevard-close-cars-oscars|title=Make the Oscars street closures permanent|first=Alissa|last=Walker|date=2 March 2018|website=Curbed LA|access-date=September 7, 2022|archive-date=September 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908173705/https://la.curbed.com/2018/3/2/17072092/hollywood-boulevard-close-cars-oscars|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-ol-hollywood-scramble-star-wars-20151230-story.html|title=Opinion: Here's a New Year's resolution worth keeping: Close Hollywood Boulevard to cars in 2016|last=Crotty|first=Emilia|date=2015-12-30|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-31|archive-date=September 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220907233504/https://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-ol-hollywood-scramble-star-wars-20151230-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In June 2019, the city of Los Angeles commissioned [[Gensler]] Architects to provide a master plan for a $4 million renovation to improve and "update the streetscape concept" for the Walk of Fame.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://urbanize.la/post/hollywood-walk-fames-4-million-master-plan-moves-forward|title=Hollywood Walk of Fame's $4-Million Master Plan Moves Forward|date=2019-06-14|website=Urbanize LA|language=en|access-date=2020-01-31|archive-date=November 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112035001/https://urbanize.la/post/hollywood-walk-fames-4-million-master-plan-moves-forward|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/city-selects-firm-to-design-hollywood-walk-of-fame-improvements/135152/|title=Hollywood Walk of Fame Update Coming, City Selects Firm to Design Improvements|website=NBC Los Angeles|date=June 12, 2019|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-31|archive-date=September 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908180504/https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/city-selects-firm-to-design-hollywood-walk-of-fame-improvements/135152/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-30/hollywood-boulevard-highland-vine-road-diet-traffic|title=L.A. considers bold makeover for Hollywood Boulevard: Fewer cars, bike lanes, wider sidewalks|last1=Nelson|first1=Laura J.|last2=Vega|first2=Priscella|date=2020-01-30|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-31|archive-date=September 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220907233504/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-30/hollywood-boulevard-highland-vine-road-diet-traffic|url-status=live}}</ref> Los Angeles city councilmember Mitch O'Farrell released the draft master plan designed by Gensler and Studio-MLA in January 2020. It proposed widening the sidewalks, adding bike lanes, new landscaping, sidewalk dining, removing lanes of car traffic and street parking between the [[Pantages Theatre (Hollywood)|Pantages Theater]] (Gower Street) at the East and The Emerson Theatre (La Brea Avenue) at the west end of the boulevard.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://la.curbed.com/2020/1/31/21115464/hollywood-boulevard-walk-of-fame-pedestrian-friendly|title='Exciting' Hollywood Boulevard makeover unveiled. But don't call it radical.|last=Barragan|first=Bianca|date=2020-01-31|website=Curbed LA|language=en|access-date=2020-03-05|archive-date=September 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908032822/https://la.curbed.com/2020/1/31/21115464/hollywood-boulevard-walk-of-fame-pedestrian-friendly|url-status=live}}</ref> The approved phase one includes removing the parking lanes between Orange Drive and Gower Street, adding street furnishings with benches, tables and chairs with sidewalk widening. Phase two is in the schematic stage. Phase two is planned for 2024 and will include closing down the boulevard to two lanes, adding landscaping with shade trees and five public plazas made up of [[art deco]] designed street pavers and kiosks.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://heartofhollywood.la/walk-fame-master-plan|title=WALK OF FAME MASTER PLAN &#124; Heart of Hollywood|publisher=Heartofhollywood.la|date=|access-date=2022-08-01|archive-date=August 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816171435/https://heartofhollywood.la/walk-fame-master-plan|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://kfiam640.iheart.com/featured/la-local-news/content/2022-07-28-hollywood-walk-of-fame-to-get-streetscape-improvements/|title=Hollywood Walk of Fame to Get Streetscape Improvements &#124; KFI AM 640 &#124; LA Local News|publisher=Kfiam640.iheart.com|date=2022-07-28|access-date=2022-08-01|archive-date=August 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804130103/https://kfiam640.iheart.com/featured/la-local-news/content/2022-07-28-hollywood-walk-of-fame-to-get-streetscape-improvements/|url-status=live}}</ref> Planned to be completed by 2026, funding is being raised for the $50 million project.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://urbanize.la/post/hollywood-walk-fames-4-million-master-plan-moves-forward|title=Hollywood Walk of Fame's $4-Million Master Plan Moves Forward|date=June 14, 2019|website=Urbanize LA|access-date=June 15, 2019|archive-date=November 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112035001/https://urbanize.la/post/hollywood-walk-fames-4-million-master-plan-moves-forward|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/City-Selects-Firm-to-Design-Hollywood-Walk-of-Fame-Improvements-511169871.html|title=City Selects Firm for Hollywood Walk of Fame Improvements|first=City News|last=Service|website=NBC Southern California|date=June 12, 2019|access-date=June 19, 2019|archive-date=June 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619193107/https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/City-Selects-Firm-to-Design-Hollywood-Walk-of-Fame-Improvements-511169871.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
==Nomination process==
[[File:JamesCameronStarDec09.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=director James Cameron squats by his new star, left hand propping up his plaque|Director [[James Cameron]] unveiling his star in late 2009]]
 
Each year an average of 200 nominations are submitted to the [[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]] Walk of Fame selection committee. Anyone, including fans, can nominate anyone active in the field of entertainment as long as the nominee or their management approves the nomination. Nominees must have a minimum of five years' experience in the category for which they are nominated and a history of "charitable contributions".<ref name="Jet111"/> Posthumous nominees must have been deceased at least five years. At a meeting each June, the committee selects approximately 20 to 24 celebrities to receive stars on the Walk of Fame. One posthumous award is given each year as well. The nominations of those not selected are rolled over to the following year for reconsideration; those not selected two years in a row are dropped, and must be renominated to receive further consideration. Living recipients must agree to personally attend a presentation ceremony within two years of selection. If the ceremony is not scheduled within two years, a new application must be submitted. A relative of deceased recipients must attend posthumous presentations. Presentation ceremonies are open to the public.<ref name="WOFFAQ"/>
 
A fee of $75,000 ({{as of|2023|lc=y}}),<ref name="Walk of Fame FAQs"/> payable at time of selection, is collected to pay for the creation and installation of the star, as well as general maintenance of the Walk of Fame. The fee is usually paid by the nominating organization, which may be a film studio, record company, broadcaster, or other sponsor involved with the prospective honoree.<ref name="ap2006"/><ref>{{cite web|author=Donaldson-Evans, Catherine |date=December 3, 2003|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/hollywood-boulevards-price-of-fame |title=Hollywood Boulevard's Price of Fame|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060629115439/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,104660,00.html|archive-date=2006-06-29|url-status=live |publisher=foxnews.com; News Corp}}</ref> The [[Starz (TV channel)|Starz]] cable network, for example, paid for [[Dennis Hopper]]'s star as part of the promotion for its series ''[[Crash (American TV series)|Crash]]''.<ref name="ap2006"/><ref>{{cite web|author=Duke, Alan|date=March 26, 2010|url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/26/dennis.hopper/index.html|title=Dennis Hopper attends Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony|publisher=Cable News Network|accessdate=2024-01-24|archive-date=November 8, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108044140/http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/26/dennis.hopper/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
[[File:Matt Damon Star Under Construction.jpg|thumb|left|alt=Actor Matt Damon's star under construction, showing the brass star-shaped rim, exposed wire grid foundation, brass letters attached to two horizontal brackets, and the Motion Picture emblem, prior to pouring of pink terrazzo|Actor [[Matt Damon]]'s star under construction, August 2007]]
 
Traditionally, the identities of selection committee members, other than its chairman, have not been made public in order to minimize conflicts of interest and to discourage lobbying by celebrities and their representatives (a significant problem during the original selections in the late 1950s). However, in 1999, in response to intensifying charges of secrecy in the selection process, the Chamber disclosed the members' names: Johnny Grant, the longtime chair and representative of the television category; [[Earl Lestz]], president of [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount Studio Group]] (motion pictures); Stan Spero, retired manager with broadcast stations [[KMPC]] and [[KABC (AM)|KABC]] (radio); Kate Nelson, owner of the [[Avalon Hollywood|Palace Theatre]] (live performance); and Mary Lou Dudas, vice president of [[A&M Records]] (recording industry).<ref>{{cite news|last=Pool|first=Bob|date=January 6, 1999|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jan-06-me-60983-story.html|title=Hollywood Tries to Help Stars Shine|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=August 14, 2024|archive-date=June 8, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608125014/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jan-06-me-60983-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Since that 1999 announcement, the chamber has revealed only that Lestz (who received his own star in 2004) became chairman after Grant died in 2008. Their current official position is that "each of the five categories is represented by someone with expertise in that field".<ref name="WOFFAQ"/>
 
In 2010, Lestz was replaced as chairman by John Pavlik, former Director of Communications<ref>{{cite web|url=http://photos.presslist.oscars.org/listanevent.php?events=781 |title=Academy Appoints Unger Communications Chief|publisher=Oscars.org|date= February 14, 2007|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727154237/http://photos.presslist.oscars.org/listanevent.php?events=781|archivedate=2011-07-27}}</ref> for the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]. While no public announcement was made to that effect, he was identified as chairman in the Chamber's press release announcing the 2011 star recipients.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodchamber.net/index.php?page=13|title=Walk of Fame 2011 Selection|work=hollywoodchamber.net|publisher=[[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]]|date=June 17, 2010|access-date=June 21, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914174820/http://www.hollywoodchamber.net/index.php?page=13|archive-date=September 14, 2010|quote="It was not an easy job to winnow down the extra large number of nominations this year to reach these 30 names", said John Pavlik, chair of the Hollywood Walk of Fame Committee ...}}</ref> In 2016, the chair, according to the Chamber's 2016 selection announcement, was film producer Maureen Schultz.<ref>{{cite web|author=Holmes, M|date=June 22, 2015|title=Bradley Cooper, Quentin Tarantino Among Hollywood Walk of Fame 2016 Honorees|url=https://variety.com/2015/biz/news/hollywood-walk-of-fame-2016-bradley-cooper-quentin-tarantino-1201525119/|publisher=Variety.com|accessdate=2024-01-24|archive-date=February 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211050013/http://variety.com/2015/biz/news/hollywood-walk-of-fame-2016-bradley-cooper-quentin-tarantino-1201525119/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2023, the selection committee chair was radio personality [[Ellen K]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://walkoffame.com/press_releases/hollywood-walk-of-fame-class-of-2024-announced-by-walk-of-fame-chair-ellen-k/|title=Hollywood Walk of Fame Class of 2024 Announced by Walk of Fame Chair Ellen K|publisher=Hollywood Walk Of Fame|accessdate=2024-01-24|archive-date=June 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629183932/https://walkoffame.com/press_releases/hollywood-walk-of-fame-class-of-2024-announced-by-walk-of-fame-chair-ellen-k/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
===Rule adjustments===
[[File:HollywoodWalkOfFameMoonAtHollywoodAndVine.jpg|thumb|alt=Moon Landing monument, with square pink terrazzo surround (not the usual charcoal color), with light gray terrazzo Moon disk showing TV emblem at top and the brass lettering "Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin and Michael Collins, 7/20/69, Apollo XI"|One of the four monuments recognizing the Apollo 11 astronauts at the corners of Hollywood and Vine]]
 
Walk of Fame rules prohibit consideration of nominees whose contributions fall outside the six major entertainment categories, but the selection committee has been known to adjust interpretations of its rules to justify a selection. The Walk's four round Moon landing monuments at the corners of Hollywood and Vine, for example, officially recognize the [[Apollo 11]] astronauts for "contributions to the television industry." Johnny Grant acknowledged, in 2005, that classifying the first Moon landing as a television entertainment event was "a bit of a stretch".<ref name="Q&A"/> [[Magic Johnson]] was added to the motion picture category based on his ownership of the [[Magic Johnson Theatres|Magic Johnson Theatre]] chain, citing as precedent [[Sid Grauman]], builder of [[Grauman's Chinese Theatre]].<ref name="Q&A"/>
 
[[Muhammad Ali]]'s star was granted after the committee decided that [[boxing]] could be considered a form of "live performance". Its placement on a wall of the [[Dolby Theatre]] makes it the only star mounted on a vertical surface, acceding to Ali's request that his name not be walked upon,<ref name="Jet111">{{cite magazine|last=Christian|first=Margena A.|title=How Do You Really Get A Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame?|magazine=[[Jet Magazine]]|volume=111|issue=15|date=April 16, 2007|pages=25, 29|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BjsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29|access-date=October 12, 2010|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910075552/https://books.google.com/books?id=BjsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=A Star for the Greatest|magazine=[[Jet Magazine]]|volume=101|issue=6|page=52|date=January 28, 2002|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2LQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52|access-date=September 22, 2010|via=[[Google Books]]|archive-date=September 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230907090842/https://books.google.com/books?id=2LQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52|url-status=live}}</ref> as he shared his name with the Islamic prophet [[Muhammad]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/muhammad-alis-star-hollywood-boulevard-floats-butterfly-ground/story?id=39634073|title=Ali Is Only Person With Hollywood Star on a Wall|work=ABC News|access-date=June 15, 2019|archive-date=September 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190920142035/https://abcnews.go.com/US/muhammad-alis-star-hollywood-boulevard-floats-butterfly-ground/story?id=39634073|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxingnewsandviews.com/2016/06/04/ali-hollywood-star/|title=Why Ali Hollywood Star Is On The Wall Not The Floor|first=Niall|last=Doran|date=June 4, 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112043625/https://www.boxingnewsandviews.com/2016/06/04/ali-hollywood-star/|archivedate=2020-01-12}}</ref>
 
All living honorees have been required since 1968 to personally attend their star's unveiling, and approximately 40 have declined the honor due to this condition.<ref name="Q&A"/> The only recipient to date who failed to appear after agreeing to do so was [[Barbra Streisand]], in 1976. Her star was unveiled anyway, near the intersection of Hollywood and Highland.<ref>{{cite web|author=Sanello, Frank ([[UPI]])|date=December 5, 1984|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2318&dat=19841205&id=LpYpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7YIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4064,2288190|title=Want your star on walk? It isn't easy|accessdate=2024-01-24|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910075928/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2318&dat=19841205&id=LpYpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7YIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4064,2288190|url-status=live}}</ref> Streisand did attend when her husband, [[James Brolin]], unveiled his star in 1998 two blocks to the east.<ref>{{cite web|author=Halza, George|date=August 28, 1998|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19980828&id=E4oxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L6YFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3045,1628160|title=Brolin, Streisand Revel in Stardom|pages=B8|accessdate=2024-01-24|archive-date=April 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160429174424/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19980828&id=E4oxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L6YFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3045,1628160|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
==Entertainers on the Walk of Fame==
{{Main|List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame}}
{{See also|List of actors with Hollywood Walk of Fame motion picture stars}}
 
===Entertainers with multiple stars===
The following notable entertainers have had their contributions in multiple categories recognized with multiple stars.
 
====Five====
[[Gene Autry]] is the only honoree to have a star in every category during 1983–2023, when the number of categories was five.<ref name="MostStars">{{cite web|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/about/#most-stars|title=Hollywood Star Walk: Who has the most stars on the Walk of Fame?|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=June 25, 2012|archive-date=June 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610020129/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/about/#most-stars|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geneautry.com/geneautry|title=Gene Autry|publisher=Gene Autry Entertainment|access-date=June 2, 2011|archive-date=July 24, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724053018/http://www.geneautry.com/geneautry/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
====Four====
[[Bob Hope]], [[Mickey Rooney]], [[Roy Rogers]], and [[Tony Martin (American singer)|Tony Martin]] each have stars in four categories; Rooney has three of his own and a fourth with his eighth wife, Jan Chamberlin,<ref>{{cite web|title=Hollywood Star Walk: Mickey Rooney|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=June 2, 2011|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/mickey-rooney/|archive-date=June 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610044749/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/mickey-rooney/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Hollywood Star Walk: Jan & Mickey Rooney|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=June 2, 2011|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/jan-mickey-rooney/|archive-date=June 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610071552/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/jan-mickey-rooney/|url-status=live}}</ref> while Rogers also has three of his own, and a fourth with his band, [[Sons of the Pioneers]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Hollywood Star Walk: Roy Rogers|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=June 2, 2011|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/roy-rogers/|archive-date=June 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610062537/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/roy-rogers/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Hollywood Star Walk: Sons of the Pioneers|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=June 2, 2011|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/sons-of-the-pioneers/|archive-date=June 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610064857/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/sons-of-the-pioneers/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
====Three====
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Thirty-three honorees, including [[Bing Crosby]], [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Jo Stafford]], [[Dean Martin]], [[Dinah Shore]], [[Gale Storm]], [[Danny Kaye]], [[Douglas Fairbanks Jr.]], and [[Jack Benny]] have stars in three categories.<ref name=MostStars/>
 
====Two====
Over a dozen have two stars:
*[[Dolly Parton]], for her solo work and part of the trio made up of her, [[Emmylou Harris]] and [[Linda Ronstadt]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/dolly-parton-emmylou-harris-linda-ronstadt-earn-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-666959/|title=Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt Earn Hollywood Walk of Fame Star|publisher=Rolling Stone|accessdate=2024-01-13|date=2018-06-26|archive-date=July 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718205021/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/dolly-parton-emmylou-harris-linda-ronstadt-earn-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-666959/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Michael Jackson]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://walkoffame.com/michael-jackson/|title=Michael Jackson|date=October 25, 2019|publisher=Hollywood Walk of Fame|accessdate=2024-01-31|archive-date=January 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119081421/https://walkoffame.com/michael-jackson/|url-status=live}}</ref> as a soloist and as a member of [[The Jacksons]].
*[[Diana Ross]], as a member of [[The Supremes]] and for her solo work.
*[[Smokey Robinson]], as a solo artist and as a member of [[The Miracles]].
*[[John Lennon]], [[Paul McCartney]], [[George Harrison]], and [[Ringo Starr]] as individuals and as members of [[The Beatles]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://forgottenjournal.com/index.php/2010/02/15/paul-mccartney-to-get-his-own-star-on-hollywood-walk-of-fame|title=Paul McCartney to get his own star on Hollywood Walk of Fame|newspaper=[[Daily Star (United Kingdom)|The Daily Star]](UK)|date=February 15, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100219190936/http://forgottenjournal.com/index.php/2010/02/15/paul-mccartney-to-get-his-own-star-on-hollywood-walk-of-fame/|archive-date=February 19, 2010|access-date=May 31, 2010}}</ref>
*[[George Eastman]] is the only honoree with two stars in the same category for the same achievement, the invention of [[roll film]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Hollywood Star Walk: George Eastman|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=June 2, 2011|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/george-eastman|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910075933/https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/george-eastman/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Walt Disney]], has stars in two different categories for his work in both film and television;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/walt-disney/index.html|title=Walt Disney|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=April 19, 2022|archive-date=March 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304012409/https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/walt-disney/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> in addition, [[Mickey Mouse]] (who was originally voiced by [[Walt Disney]]) and [[Disneyland]] have stars.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1981000_1980999_1981006,00.html|title=Top 10 Dubious Walk-of-Fame Stars: Disneyland|magazine=Time|last=Fitzpatrick|first=Laura|date=April 12, 2010|access-date=April 19, 2022|archive-date=April 13, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220413050441/http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1981000_1980999_1981006,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Kermit the Frog]], has an individual star for television and as a member of [[The Muppets]] for film.
*[[Aleksa Anđelković]], has a single star for comedy and as a member of the Boneheads band.
* [[Bette Davis]], [[Alfred Hitchcock]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://walkoffame.com/alfred-hitchcock/|title=Alfred Hitchcock|date=October 25, 2019|access-date=June 16, 2022|archive-date=May 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525042815/https://walkoffame.com/alfred-hitchcock/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Paul Henreid]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://walkoffame.com/paul-henreid/|title=Paul Henreid|date=October 25, 2019|access-date=April 26, 2024|archive-date=April 26, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240426002252/https://walkoffame.com/paul-henreid/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Jane Wyman]], [[Loretta Young]], and [[Vincent Price]] all have one star each for film and television.
* [[Doris Day]] and [[Judy Garland]] both have one star each for film and recording.
* [[Jean Hersholt]] and [[Hattie McDaniel]] both have one star each for film and radio.
* [[Arlene Francis]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Arlene Francis|url=https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/arlene-francis/|access-date=2023-05-15|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|language=en|archive-date=May 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515125708/https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/arlene-francis/|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Cass Daley]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Walk of Fame Official Website: Cass Daley|date=October 25, 2019|url=https://walkoffame.com/cass-daley/|access-date=July 10, 2023|archive-date=July 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230710150025/https://walkoffame.com/cass-daley/|url-status=live}}</ref> both have one star each for television and radio.
[[Cher]] forfeited her opportunity to join this list by declining to schedule the mandatory personal appearance when she was selected in 1983.<ref>{{cite news|last=Conklin|first=Ellis E.|date=November 2, 1986|title=It's a Hollywood Walk of Shame|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-spokesman-review-its-a-hollywood/163961016/|newspaper=[[The Spokesman-Review]]|agency=[[Los Angeles Daily News]]}}</ref> She did, however, attend the unveiling of the [[Sonny & Cher]] star in 1998, as a tribute to her recently deceased ex-husband, [[Sonny Bono]].<ref>{{cite magazine|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=May 15, 1998|url=http://www.life.com/image/50732829|title=Sonny & Cher Walk of Fame Ceremony|magazine=Life Magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091115114147/http://www.life.com/image/50732829|archive-date=November 15, 2009|access-date=December 11, 2013}}</ref>
 
==Unique and unusual==
Sixteen stars are identified with a one-word [[stage name]] (e.g., [[Liberace]], [[Pink (singer)|Pink]], [[Roseanne Barr|Roseanne]], and [[Slash (musician)|Slash]]). [[Clayton Moore]] is so inextricably linked with his [[Lone Ranger]] character, even though he played other roles during his career, that he is one of only two actors to have his character's name alongside his own on his star. The other is [[Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou|Tommy Riggs]], whose star references his Betty Lou character.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/tommy-riggs/|title=Tommy Riggs|newspaper=LA Times|accessdate=2024-01-24|archive-date=June 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190620161543/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/tommy-riggs/|url-status=live}}</ref> The largest group of individuals represented by a single star is the estimated 122 adults and 12 children<ref>{{cite web|author=Brillhart, Ivan|url=http://www.kansasoz.com/infomunchkins.htm |title=The 'MGM' Munchkin's|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011060510/http://www.kansasoz.com/infomunchkins.htm|archivedate=October 11, 2007|publisher=kansasoz.com}}</ref> collectively known as the [[Munchkin]]s, from the landmark 1939 film ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''.
 
[[File:HarrisonFordHWoFOct10.jpg|thumb|[[Harrison Ford]]'s star, presented to the actor in 2003. The [[Harrison Ford (silent film actor)|silent film actor of the same name]] has an identical star in a different location on Hollywood Boulevard]]
 
Two pairs of stars share identical names representing different people. There are two Harrison Ford stars, honoring the [[Harrison Ford (silent film actor)|silent film actor]] (at 6665 Hollywood Boulevard),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://walkoffame.com/harrison-ford-silent-film-actor/|title=Harrison Ford (silent film actor)|date=October 25, 2019|accessdate=2024-01-25|publisher=Hollywood Walk of Fame|archive-date=January 25, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240125170827/https://walkoffame.com/harrison-ford-silent-film-actor/|url-status=live}}</ref> and the [[Harrison Ford|present-day actor]] (in front of the [[Dolby Theatre]] at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://walkoffame.com/harrison-ford/|title=Harrison Ford|date=October 25, 2019|accessdate=2024-01-25|publisher=Hollywood Walk of Fame|archive-date=May 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529162910/https://walkoffame.com/harrison-ford/|url-status=live}}</ref> Two Michael Jackson stars represent the [[Michael Jackson|pop singer]] (at 6927 Hollywood Boulevard),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://walkoffame.com/michael-jackson/|title=Michael Jackson|date=October 25, 2019|accessdate=2024-01-25|publisher=Hollywood Walk of Fame|archive-date=January 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119081421/https://walkoffame.com/michael-jackson/|url-status=live}}</ref> and the [[Michael Jackson (radio commentator)|radio personality]] (at 1597 Vine Street).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://walkoffame.com/michael-jackson-radio/|title=Michael Jackson (radio)|date=October 25, 2019|accessdate=2024-01-25|publisher=Hollywood Walk of Fame|archive-date=January 25, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240125170826/https://walkoffame.com/michael-jackson-radio/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
[[Westmore family|The Westmores]] received the first star honoring contributions in [[Theatrical makeup|theatrical make-up]].{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} Other make-up artists on the walk are [[Max Factor Sr.|Max Factor]], [[John Chambers (make-up artist)|John Chambers]] and [[Rick Baker]]. Three stars recognize experts in [[special effect]]s: [[Ray Harryhausen]], [[Dennis Muren]], and [[Stan Winston]]. Only two [[costume design]]ers have received a star: eight-time Academy Award Winner [[Edith Head]], and the first African-American to win an Oscar for costume design, [[Ruth E. Carter]].
 
[[Sidney Sheldon]] is one of two novelists with a star, which he earned for writing screenplays for such films as ''[[The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer]]'' (1947) before becoming a novelist.<ref>Koerner, Brendan I. (November 18, 2003). [http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2003/11/who_gave_britney_a_hollywood_star.html <!--was http://www.slate.com/id/2091382--> "Who Gave Britney a Hollywood Star?"]. [[Slate.com]]. Retrieved 2010-05-31.<!--archive.org has it, no worries--></ref> The other is [[Ray Bradbury]], whose books and stories have formed the basis of dozens of movies and television programs over a nearly 60-year period.<ref>Weist, Jerry. ''Bradbury, an Illustrated Life: A Journey to Far Metaphor''. New York: Morrow, 2002; {{ISBN|0-06-001182-3}}.</ref>
 
Nine [[inventor]]s have stars on the Walk: [[George Eastman]], inventor of roll film;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://walkoffame.com/george-eastman/|title=George Eastman|date=October 25, 2019|publisher=Hollywood Walk of Fame|accessdate=2024-01-25|archive-date=April 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413202802/https://walkoffame.com/george-eastman/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Thomas Edison]], inventor of the first true film projector and holder of numerous patents related to motion-picture technology;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://walkoffame.com/thomas-a-edison/|title=Thomas A. Edison|date=October 25, 2019|publisher=Hollywood Walk of Fame|accessdate=2024-01-25|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910075931/https://walkoffame.com/thomas-a-edison/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Lee de Forest]], inventor of the [[triode|triode vacuum tube]], which played an important role in the development of radio and television broadcasts,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-de-Forest|title=Lee de Forest|publisher=Britannica|accessdate=2024-01-25|archive-date=October 5, 2016|archive-url=https://archive.today/20161005132931/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-de-Forest|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://walkoffame.com/lee-de-forest/|title=Lee de Forest|date=October 25, 2019|publisher=Hollywood Walk of Fame|accessdate=2024-01-25|archive-date=January 25, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240125205444/https://walkoffame.com/lee-de-forest/|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Phonofilm]], which made sound films possible; [[Herbert Kalmus]], inventor of [[Technicolor]]; [[Auguste and Louis Lumière]], inventors of important components of the motion picture camera; [[Mark Serrurier]], inventor of the technology used for film editing; [[Hedy Lamarr]], co-inventor of a [[Frequency-hopping spread spectrum|frequency-hopping]] radio guidance system that was a precursor to [[Wi-Fi]] networks and [[cellular telephone]] systems;<ref name="Lamarr">{{cite web|last=Braun|first=Hans-Joachim|date=Spring 1997|url=http://americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1997/4/1997_4_10.shtml|title=Advanced Weaponry of the Stars|work=Invention & Technology|volume=12|issue=4|publisher=AmericanHeritage.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110314161122/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1997/4/1997_4_10.shtml|archive-date=March 14, 2011|access-date=December 11, 2013}}</ref><!--replaced this derivative source:[http://www.inventions.org/culture/female/lamarr.html "Female Inventors – Hedy Lamarr"]. ''inventions.org''; Inventors Assistance League.--> and [[Ray Dolby]], co-developer of the first [[Quadruplex videotape|video tape recorder]] and inventor of the [[Dolby noise-reduction system]].
 
A few star recipients moved on after their entertainment careers to political notability. Two [[Presidents of the United States]], [[Ronald Reagan]] (40th President) and [[Donald Trump]] (45th, and 47th President), have stars on the Walk. Reagan is also one of two [[Governor of California|Governors of California]] with a star; the other is [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]].<ref>Warner, GA (October 28, 2010): Ronald Reagan sites in Southern California. [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/reagan-273317-california-president.html Orange County Register archive]. Retrieved March 21, 2013</ref> One [[U.S. senator]] ([[George Murphy]]) and two members of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] ([[Helen Gahagan Douglas|Helen Gahagan]] and [[Sonny Bono]]) have stars. [[Ignacy Jan Paderewski|Ignacy Paderewski]], who served as Prime Minister of Poland between the World Wars, is the only European [[head of government]] represented. Film and stage actor [[Albert Dekker]] served one term in the [[California State Assembly]] during the 1940s.<ref>{{cite news|title=Autopsy Performed on Actor Albert Dekker|date=May 7, 1968|work=Los Angeles Times|page=19}}</ref><ref name="hare">{{cite book|last=Hare|first=William|title=L.A. Noir: Nine Dark Visions of the City of Angels|year=2008|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-3740-5|page=143}}</ref>
 
On its 50th anniversary in 2005, [[Disneyland]] received a star near Disney's Soda Fountain on Hollywood Boulevard. Stars for commercial organizations are only considered for those with a Hollywood show business connection of at least 50 years' duration. While not technically part of the Walk itself (a city ordinance prohibits placing corporate names on sidewalks), the star was installed adjacent to it.<ref>{{cite web|title=Disneyland to get star treatment|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jul-13-et-walkfame13-story.html|website=L.A. Times|date=July 13, 2005|access-date=January 22, 2018|archive-date=August 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807213142/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jul-13-et-walkfame13-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
There are four dogs represented on the walk, [[Lassie]], [[Rin Tin Tin]], [[Strongheart]], and [[Snoopy]].
 
[[Charlie Chaplin]] is the only honoree to be selected twice for the same star on the Walk. He was unanimously voted into the initial group of 500 in 1956, but the Selection Committee ultimately excluded him, ostensibly due to questions regarding his morals (he had been charged with violating the [[Mann Act]]—and exonerated—during the [[Sexual slavery#White slavery|White Slavery]] hysteria of the 1940s),<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-b9sDwAAQBAJ|title=Hollywood Lawyer: The Jerry Giesler Story|pages=169|author=Jerry Giesler, Pete Martin|year=2018|publisher=Pickle Partners Publishing|isbn=9781789122541|access-date=February 4, 2024|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910080043/https://books.google.com/books?id=-b9sDwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> but more likely due to his left-leaning political views.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/23/newsid_3055000/3055581.stm "On This Day: September 23, 1952: Charlie Chaplin Comes Home"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100925224416/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/23/newsid_3055000/3055581.stm |date=September 25, 2010 }}. BBC. Retrieved May 31, 2010.</ref> The rebuke prompted an unsuccessful lawsuit by his son, Charles Chaplin Jr. Chaplin's star was finally added to the Walk in 1972, the same year he received his [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]].<ref name="LATimesWhy"/> Even then, 16 years later, the [[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]] received angry letters from across the country protesting its decision to include him.<ref>{{cite news|last=Shuit|first=Doug|date=April 9, 1972|title=Bitterness Survives 20 Years – They Haven't Given Up – Letter Writers Assail Chaplin|page=B2|newspaper=Los Angeles Times (archive)|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/156973192|access-date=August 31, 2010|id={{ProQuest|156973192}}|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910075931/https://www.proquest.com/docview/156973192|url-status=live}}{{subscription required}}</ref>
 
The committee's Chaplin difficulties reportedly contributed to its decision in 1978 against awarding a star to [[Paul Robeson]], the controversial opera singer, actor, athlete, writer, lawyer, and social activist.<ref>{{cite book|last=Thomson|first=David|url=https://archive.org/details/wholeequationhi00thom/page/164|title=The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood|publisher=Vintage|year=2006|isbn=0-375-70154-0|pages=[https://archive.org/details/wholeequationhi00thom/page/164 164–5]}}</ref> The resulting outcry from the entertainment industry, civic circles, local and national politicians, and many other quarters was so intense that the decision was reversed and Robeson was awarded a star in 1979.<ref name="Qualles">{{cite magazine|last=Qualles|first=Paris H.|date=August–September 1979|title=What Price a Star? Robeson vs. Hollywood Chamber of Commerce|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RojdPXqpnC4C&pg=PA297|magazine=[[The Crisis]]|access-date=June 9, 2010|via=[[Google Books]]|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910080042/https://books.google.com/books?id=RojdPXqpnC4C&pg=PA297#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Jet78">{{cite magazine|date=August 24, 1978|title=Paul Robeson Gets a Star|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=578DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA58|magazine=[[Jet Magazine]]|volume=54|issue=23|page=58|access-date=June 9, 2010|via=[[Google Books]]|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910075933/https://books.google.com/books?id=578DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA58#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Jet79">{{cite magazine|date=May 3, 1979|title=At Long Last Hollywood Implants Robeson Star|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KcADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60|magazine=[[Jet Magazine]]|volume=56|issue=7|page=60|access-date=June 9, 2010|via=[[Google Books]]|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910075932/https://books.google.com/books?id=KcADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
===Fictional characters===
{{Main|List of fictional characters with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame}}
 
[[File:Topolino Walk of fame.jpg|thumb|right|alt=closeup of Mickey Mouse star, showing title and Motion Picture emblem|Mickey Mouse's star was the first awarded to an animated character.]]
 
In 1978, in honor of his 50th anniversary, [[Mickey Mouse]] became the first animated character to receive a star, and nearly twenty more followed over the next decades. Other fictional characters on the Walk include the Munchkins, the ''[[kaiju]]'' [[Godzilla]], the live-action dog named [[Lassie]], [[Pee-wee Herman|Pee-Wee Herman]] as portrayed by [[Paul Reubens]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.walkoffame.com/pee-wee-herman|title=Pee-wee Herman {{!}} Hollywood Walk of Fame|website=www.walkoffame.com|access-date=August 9, 2019|archive-date=August 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809225418/https://www.walkoffame.com/pee-wee-herman|url-status=live}}</ref> animated film characters such as [[Shrek (character)|Shrek]] and [[Snow White (Disney character)|Snow White]], and animated television characters including [[Simpson family|the Simpsons]] and the [[Rugrats]].
 
[[Jim Henson]] is one of four puppeteers to have a star, but also has a further three stars dedicated to his creations: one for [[The Muppets]] as a whole, one for [[Kermit the Frog]] and one for [[Big Bird]].<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Heffley|first1=Lynn|last2=Oliver|first2=Myrna|date=1990-05-17|title=Jim Henson|url=https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/jim-henson/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220506163558/https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/jim-henson/index.html|archive-date=2022-05-06|access-date=2022-05-06|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Big Bird|url=https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/big-bird/|access-date=2022-05-06|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en|archive-date=May 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220506163620/https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/big-bird/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Kermit the Frog|url=https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/kermit-the-frog/|access-date=2022-05-06|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en|archive-date=May 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220506174941/https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/kermit-the-frog/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
===Errors===
In 2010, [[Julia Louis-Dreyfus]]'s star was constructed with the name "Julia Luis Dreyfus".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.accesshollywood.com/julia-louis-dreyfus-honored-on-walk-of-fame-with-a-typo_article_31933 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100508065548/http://www.accesshollywood.com/julia-louis-dreyfus-honored-on-walk-of-fame-with-a-typo_article_31933|archivedate=2010-05-08|title=Julia Louis-Dreyfus Honored on walk of fame with a typo|publisher=Access Hollywood|date=May 4, 2010}}</ref> The actress was reportedly amused, and the error was corrected.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/04/welcome-to-the-hollywood-walk-of-oops/?hpt=C2|title=Welcome to the Hollywood Walk of ... oops!|author=Daniel, David|date=May 4, 2010|work=CNN|access-date=May 4, 2010|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100506031049/https://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/04/welcome-to-the-hollywood-walk-of-oops/|archivedate=2010-05-06}}</ref> A similar mistake was made on [[Dick Van Dyke]]'s star in 1993 ("Vandyke"), and rectified.<ref>{{cite web|title=Notorious Spelling Mistakes: Famous Mashed Words|date=May 7, 2010|publisher=AOLnews.com|first=Chris|last=Epting|url=http://www.aolnews.com/2010/05/07/notorious-spelling-mistakes-famous-mashed-words|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110130054044/http://www.aolnews.com/2010/05/07/notorious-spelling-mistakes-famous-mashed-words|archive-date=January 30, 2011}}</ref><!--better source--> Film and television actor [[Don Haggerty]]'s star originally displayed the first name "Dan". The mistake was fixed, but years later the television actor [[Dan Haggerty]] (of ''[[The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams|Grizzly Adams]]'' fame, no relation to Don) also received a star. The confusion eventually sprouted an [[urban legend]] that Dan Haggerty was the only honoree to have a star removed from the Walk of Fame.<ref>Davidson, Bill (June 11, 1977). [http://www.grizzlyadams.net/images/stories/articles/grizzlyarticle1.pdf "Bozo and Dan are an Item!"] (PDF). {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130402202505/http://www.grizzlyadams.net/images/stories/articles/grizzlyarticle1.pdf|date=April 2, 2013}}. ''[[TV Guide]]'', p. 24. Retrieved June 15, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/don-haggerty/ "Don Haggerty"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910080439/https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/don-haggerty/ |date=September 10, 2024 }}. ''Los Angeles Times''. Retrieved July 29, 2010.</ref> For 28 years, the star intended to honor [[Mauritz Stiller]], the Helsinki-born pioneer of Swedish film who brought [[Greta Garbo]] to the United States, read "Maurice Diller", possibly due to mistranscription of verbal dictation. The star was finally remade with the correct name in 1988.<ref name="stiller">{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hollywood-walk-of-fame6-2010feb06-pictures,0,3869071.photogallery?index=la-walk-of-fame1988_kxcf63nc |title=The Hollywood Walk of Fame : A brief history in photos, #6, Mauritz Stiller|work=Los Angeles Times|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813103522/https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hollywood-walk-of-fame6-2010feb06-pictures,0,3869071.photogallery?index=la-walk-of-fame1988_kxcf63nc|archivedate=2012-08-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Steve Harvey|date=April 15, 1988|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-15-me-1498-story.html|title=The 28-year mistake|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2024-01-27|archive-date=July 6, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240706002402/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-15-me-1498-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
[[File:Monty Woolley star HWF.JPG|thumb|left|alt=Monty Woolley's star, showing a "TV" emblem, even though his category is "Motion Pictures"|"Motion Picture" category, "TV" emblem]]
 
Four stars remain misspelled: the opera star [[Lotte Lehmann]] (spelled "Lottie");<ref>[http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/lotte-lehmann "Hollywood Star Walk – Lotte Lehmann"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100515112502/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/lotte-lehmann/ |date=May 15, 2010 }}. ''Los Angeles Times.'' Retrieved May 31, 2010.</ref> ''[[King Kong (1933 film)|King Kong]]'' creator, director, and producer and [[Cinerama]] pioneer [[Merian C. Cooper]] ("Meriam");<ref>{{cite web|last=Arnold|first=Marvin|url=http://www.storydomain.com/airplane/mcooperk.htm|title=Pilot of the Plane that Killed King Kong|work=Story Domain|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827193320/http://www.storydomain.com/airplane/mcooperk.htm|archive-date=August 27, 2008|access-date=December 11, 2013}}</ref> cinematography pioneer [[Auguste Lumière]] ("August");<ref>{{cite web|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/auguste-lumiere/|title=Auguste Lumiere|work=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=2024-01-27|archive-date=September 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928211812/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/auguste-lumiere/|url-status=live}}</ref> and radio comedienne [[Mary Livingstone]] ("Livingston").<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mary Livingstone|url=https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/mary-livingstone/|access-date=March 16, 2022|website=Los Angeles Times Starwalk Project|archive-date=March 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220316234243/https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/mary-livingstone/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
[[Monty Woolley]], the veteran film and stage actor best known for [[The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942 film)|''The Man Who Came to Dinner'']] (1942) and the line "Time flies when you're having fun", is officially listed in the motion picture category,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://walkoffame.com/monty-woolley|title=Monty Woolley|work=Hollywood Walk of Fame|date=October 25, 2019|publisher=[[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]]|access-date=May 20, 2011|archive-date=September 1, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110901222806/http://walkoffame.com/monty-woolley|url-status=live}} ''Note: Official category is ''Motion Pictures'' but his star bears the television emblem.''</ref> but his star on the Walk of Fame bears the television emblem.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/monty-wooley|title=Hollywood Star Walk – Monty Woolley|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=July 25, 2010|archive-date=June 11, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611052845/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/monty-wooley/|url-status=live}}</ref> Woolley did appear on the small screen late in his career, but his TV contributions were eclipsed by his extensive stage, film, and radio work.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LyILAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c1IDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6708,3397570&dq=monty+woolley+dies&hl=en|title=Monty Woolley Dies|publisher=St. Petersburg Times|date=May 7, 1963|access-date=January 12, 2016|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910080505/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LyILAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c1IDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6708,3397570&dq=monty+woolley+dies&hl=en|url-status=live}} via Google News</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Hawes, William|year=2001|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0pQKmPSfHCQC&pg=PA23 |title=Filmed television drama, 1952–1958|publisher= [[McFarland & Company]] |pages=23|isbn=978-0-7864-1132-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FnYuAAAAIBAJ&pg=4433,1703587&dq=monty+woolley+dinner&hl=en|title=Monty Woolley to Appear in a Series of Television Films|newspaper=[[Schenectady Gazette]]|location=NY|date=July 11, 1953|page=8|via=[[Google News]]|access-date=April 1, 2020|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910080547/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FnYuAAAAIBAJ&pg=4433,1703587&dq=monty+woolley+dinner&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref> Similarly, the star of film actress [[Carmen Miranda]] bears the TV emblem,<ref>{{cite news|title=Hollywood Star Walk – Carmen Miranda|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=June 1, 2011|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/carmen-miranda|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910080559/https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/carmen-miranda/|url-status=live}}</ref> although her official category is motion pictures.<ref>{{cite web|title=Carmen Miranda|work=Hollywood Walk of Fame|date=October 25, 2019|publisher=[[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]]|url=http://walkoffame.com/carmen-miranda|access-date=June 2, 2011|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910080441/https://walkoffame.com/carmen-miranda/|url-status=live}}</ref> Radio and television talk show host [[Larry King]] is officially a television honoree,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://walkoffame.com/larry-king|title=Larry King|date=October 25, 2019|publisher=Hollywood Walk of Fame|accessdate=2024-01-27|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910080443/https://walkoffame.com/larry-king/|url-status=live}}</ref> but his star displays a film camera.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/larry-king/|title=Hollywood Star Walk – Larry King|work=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=2024-01-27|archive-date=June 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610110100/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/larry-king/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
==Theft and vandalism==
Acts of vandalism on the Walk of Fame have ranged from profanity and political statements written on stars with markers and paint to damage with heavy tools.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://listverse.com/2018/01/04/10-celebrities-whose-walk-of-fame-stars-were-vandalized/|title=10 Celebrities Whose Walk Of Fame Stars Were Vandalized|website=listverse.com|publisher=Listverse Ltd.|first=Leigh|last=Paul|date=January 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106232808/http://listverse.com/2018/01/04/10-celebrities-whose-walk-of-fame-stars-were-vandalized/|archive-date=November 6, 2018|url-status=live|access-date=December 4, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://sfvmedia.com/sfv/four-stars-vandalized-walk-fame/|title=Four Stars Vandalized On Hollywood Walk of Fame|website=sfvmedia.com|publisher=San Fernando News, Port Media Solutions LLC|date=November 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204082048/https://sfvmedia.com/sfv/four-stars-vandalized-walk-fame/|archive-date=December 4, 2018|url-status=live|access-date=December 4, 2018}}</ref> Vandals have also tried to chisel out the brass category emblems embedded in the stars below the names,<ref name="starthefts">{{cite news|last=Pool|first=Bob|date=November 30, 2005|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-nov-30-me-star30-story.html|title=A Star is Torn from Boulevard|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121231714/http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/30/local/me-star30|archive-date=November 21, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> and have even stolen a statue component of ''The Four Ladies of Hollywood''.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Fry|first=Hannah|date=June 25, 2019|title=Marilyn Monroe sculpture thief previously took a pickax to Trump's star, police say|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-marilyn-monroe-statue-theft-charges-20190625-story.html|access-date=August 20, 2020|website=Los Angeles Times|archive-date=April 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421060601/https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-marilyn-monroe-statue-theft-charges-20190625-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Closed circuit surveillance cameras have been installed on the stretch of Hollywood Boulevard between La Brea Avenue and Vine Street in an effort to discourage mischievous activities.<ref>Aundreia, et al (August 2008). [https://web.archive.org/web/20100603050203/http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/08/08-007.pdf "Measuring the Effects of Video Surveillance on Crime in Los Angeles"] (PDF), p. 26. USC School of Policy, Planning, & Development. Retrieved June 4, 2010.</ref>
 
Four of the stars, which weigh about {{convert|300|lb|kg}} each, have been stolen from the Walk of Fame. In 2000, [[James Stewart]]'s and [[Kirk Douglas]]' stars disappeared from their locations near the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, where they had been temporarily removed for a construction project. Police recovered them in the suburban community of [[South Gate, California|South Gate]] when they arrested a man involved in an incident there and searched his house. The suspect was a construction worker employed on the Hollywood and Vine project. The stars had been badly damaged and had to be remade. One of [[Gene Autry]]'s five stars was also stolen from a construction area. Another theft occurred in 2005 when thieves used a [[concrete saw]] to remove [[Gregory Peck]]'s star from its Hollywood Boulevard site at the intersection of North El Centro Avenue, near North Gower. The star was replaced almost immediately, but the original was never recovered and the perpetrators never caught.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pool|first=Bob|date=November 30, 2005|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-nov-30-me-star30-story.html|title=A Star is Torn from Boulevard|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=August 14, 2024|archive-date=November 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121231714/http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/30/local/me-star30|url-status=live}}</ref>[[File:Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star being repaired.jpg|thumb|Trump's star under repair, soon after it was vandalized on July 25, 2018]]
 
[[Donald Trump]]'s star, obtained for his work as owner and producer of the [[Miss Universe]] pageant,<ref>{{cite web|last=Zara|first=Christopher|author-link=Christopher Zara|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/4023036/why-the-heck-does-donald-trump-have-a-walk-of-fame-star-anyway-its-not-the-reason-you-think|title=Why the heck does Donald Trump have a Walk of Fame star, anyway? It's not the reason you think|work=[[Fast Company (magazine)|Fast Company]]|date=October 26, 2016|access-date=June 16, 2018|archive-date=October 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021021626/https://www.fastcompany.com/4023036/why-the-heck-does-donald-trump-have-a-walk-of-fame-star-anyway-its-not-the-reason-you-think|url-status=live}}</ref> has been vandalized multiple times.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Jackson|first1=Henry C.|title=Trump: A star is scorned|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/trump-a-star-is-scorned-223661|access-date=May 28, 2016|work=POLITICO|date=May 28, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Romero|first1=Dennis|title=Donald Trump's Walk of Fame Star Gets a Baby Border Wall (photos)|url=http://www.laweekly.com/news/donald-trumps-walk-of-fame-star-gets-a-baby-border-wall-photos-7157242|access-date=July 20, 2016|date=July 19, 2016|archive-date=July 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160720102029/http://www.laweekly.com/news/donald-trumps-walk-of-fame-star-gets-a-baby-border-wall-photos-7157242|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Protester uses Donald Trump Hollywood Walk of Fame star to mock him|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protester-uses-donald-trump-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-to-mock-him/|publisher=[[CBS News]]|date=July 20, 2016|access-date=July 20, 2016|archive-date=July 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160721112944/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/protester-uses-donald-trump-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-to-mock-him/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-trump-star-vandalism-20190424-story.html|last=Fry|first=Hannah|date=April 24, 2019|title=Trump's star on Hollywood Walk of Fame is defaced by a vandal — again|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=October 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424201113/https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-trump-star-vandalism-20190424-story.html|url-status=live|archive-date=April 24, 2019}}</ref><ref name=":1"/> During the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 presidential election]], a man named James Otis, who claims to be an heir to the [[Otis Worldwide|Otis Elevator Company]] fortune,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/man-who-destroyed-trumps-star-2016-offers-legal-help-newly-accused-vandal-1129977/|title=Man Who Destroyed Trump's Star in 2016 Offers Legal Help to New Alleged Vandal|work=The Hollywood Reporter|last=Parker|first=Ryan|date=July 26, 2018|access-date=August 9, 2021|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910080510/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/man-who-destroyed-trumps-star-2016-offers-legal-help-newly-accused-vandal-1129977/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-vandal/elevator-scion-who-defaced-trumps-hollywood-star-gets-probation-idUSKBN161069|title=Elevator scion who defaced Trump's Hollywood star gets probation|work=Reuters|last=Gorman|first=Steve|date=February 21, 2017|access-date=August 9, 2021|archive-date=July 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726035156/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-vandal/elevator-scion-who-defaced-trumps-hollywood-star-gets-probation-idUSKBN161069|url-status=live}}</ref> used a sledgehammer and a pickaxe to destroy all of the star's brass inlays. He readily admitted to the vandalism<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-star-230391|title=Man who destroyed Trump's star is 'proud' of his work|date=October 27, 2016|work=POLITICO|access-date=October 27, 2016}}</ref> and was arrested and sentenced to three years' probation.<ref>{{cite news|last=Von Quednow|first=Cindy|title=Man Sentenced to 3 Years Probation in Connection With Vandalizing Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame|url=http://ktla.com/2017/02/21/man-sentenced-to-3-years-probation-in-connection-with-vandalizing-donald-trumps-star-on-hollywood-walk-of-fame/|website=KTLA.com|date=February 21, 2017|access-date=June 23, 2017|archive-date=March 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200312203915/https://ktla.com/news/local-news/man-sentenced-to-3-years-probation-in-connection-with-vandalizing-donald-trumps-star-on-hollywood-walk-of-fame/|url-status=live}}</ref> The star was repaired and served as a site of pro-Trump demonstrations<ref>{{cite news|last=Jennewein|first=Chris|title=Trump supporters rally at repaired Hollywood Walk of Fame star|url=http://mynewsla.com/government/2016/10/30/trump-supporters-rally-at-repaired-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star/|website=MyNewsLA.com|date=October 30, 2016|access-date=January 25, 2017}}</ref> until it was destroyed a second time in July 2018 by a man named Austin Clay.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Levenson|first1=Eric|last2=Chan|first2=Stella|title=President Trump's Walk of Fame star was smashed to pieces|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/25/politics/trump-walk-of-fame-star-smash/index.html|website=CNN|date=July 25, 2018|access-date=July 29, 2018|archive-date=March 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309214709/https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/25/politics/trump-walk-of-fame-star-smash/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Clay later surrendered himself to the police and was bailed out by James Otis.<ref>{{cite news|last=Nashrulla|first=Tasneem|title=Donald Trump's Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame Was Vandalized Again|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/trump-star-hollywood-walk-fame-vandalized-smashed|website=BuzzFeedNews.com|date=July 25, 2018|access-date=July 29, 2018|language=en|archive-date=July 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729045105/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/trump-star-hollywood-walk-fame-vandalized-smashed|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Folley|first=Aris|title=Man who vandalized Trump's Walk of Fame star bailed out by person who did it years ago: report|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/398893-man-who-vandalized-trumps-walk-of-fame-star-bailed-out-by-guy/|website=The Hill|date=July 25, 2018|access-date=July 29, 2018|language=en}}</ref> Clay was sentenced to one day in jail, three years of probation, and 20 days of community service. He also was ordered to attend psychological counseling and pay restitution of $9,404.46 to the [[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/trump-walk-fame-star-vandal-sentenced-jail-pay-10k-1159217|title=Trump Walk of Fame Star Vandal Sentenced to Jail, Probation|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=November 7, 2018|language=en|access-date=July 23, 2019|archive-date=July 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190723211740/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/trump-walk-fame-star-vandal-sentenced-jail-pay-10k-1159217|url-status=live}}</ref> On December 18, 2018, the star was defaced with [[swastika]]s and other graffiti drawn in permanent marker,<ref>{{cite web|title=President Trump's Walk Of Fame Star Vandalized Yet Again|url=https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/12/20/president-trump-walk-fame-star-vandalized-again/|date=December 20, 2018|website=cbslocal.com|publisher=CBS Broadcasting, Inc.|access-date=January 7, 2020|archive-date=July 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725090027/https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/12/20/president-trump-walk-fame-star-vandalized-again/|url-status=live}}</ref> and it was again vandalized with a pickaxe on October 2, 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/02/donald-trump-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-vandalized-again|title=Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star vandalized again|work=The Guardian|date=October 2, 2020|access-date=October 3, 2020}}</ref>
 
In August 2018, the [[West Hollywood, California|West Hollywood]] City Council unanimously passed a resolution requesting permanent removal of the star due to repeated vandalism, according to Mayor [[John Duran]]. The resolution was completely symbolic, as West Hollywood has no jurisdiction over the Walk.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Brown|first1=Emily|title=Council Fight To 'Totally Remove' Donald Trump's Hollywood Star|url=https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/council-fight-to-totally-remove-donald-trumps-hollywood-star/|website=Unilad|access-date=August 22, 2018|archive-date=August 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807190137/https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/council-fight-to-totally-remove-donald-trumps-hollywood-star/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Activist groups have also called for the removal of stars honoring individuals whose public and professional lives have become controversial, including Trump, [[Bill Cosby]], [[Kevin Spacey]], and [[Brett Ratner]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hollywood-walk-fame-scandalous-stars-807927/|title=Bill Cosby, Donald Trump and 7 More Scandalous Stars Immortalized on Hollywood's Walk of Fame|first1=Paige|last1=Phelan|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=July 10, 2015|access-date=May 9, 2021|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910081132/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hollywood-walk-fame-scandalous-stars-807927/|url-status=live}}</ref> In answer to these campaigns, the [[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]] announced that because the Walk is a historical landmark,{{refn|group=Note|While the Walk is individually a Los Angeles City Historical Monument, it is not registered by itself on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. It is, instead, part of the [[Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District]]'s nomination to the National Register.<ref>{{cite web|title=Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM) List - City Declared Monuments|url=https://planning.lacity.org/odocument/24f6fce7-f73d-4bca-87bc-c77ed3fc5d4f/Historical%20Cultural%20Monuments%20List.pdf|access-date=May 1, 2022|page=12|quote=194 Hollywood Walk of Fame - Hollywood Boulevard (between Gower and La Brea) & Vine Street (between Sunset and Yucca) - 07/05/1978 Hollywood 13|archive-date=January 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120001222/https://planning.lacity.org/odocument/24f6fce7-f73d-4bca-87bc-c77ed3fc5d4f/Historical%20Cultural%20Monuments%20List.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/236d3254-47ee-4b31-9045-c2999cc465f2/|access-date=May 1, 2022|date=April 4, 1985|quote=In addition to architectural details, there are several fine urban design features: colored terrazo entryways, neon signage, and the Hollywood Walk of Fame.|archive-date=August 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813055718/https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/236d3254-47ee-4b31-9045-c2999cc465f2/|url-status=live}}</ref>}} "once a star has been added ... it is considered a part of the historic fabric of the Hollywood Walk of Fame" and cannot be removed.<ref name="star.removal">{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hollywood-chamber-commerce-no-plans-remove-walk-fame-stars-amid-sexual-harassment-scandals-173303074.html|title=Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has no plans to remove Walk of Fame stars amid sexual misconduct scandals|work=Yahoo!|last=Ryder|first=Taryn|date=November 15, 2017|access-date=February 26, 2018|archive-date=February 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226212424/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hollywood-chamber-commerce-no-plans-remove-walk-fame-stars-amid-sexual-harassment-scandals-173303074.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
==''Hollywood and La Brea Gateway''==
[[File:Four Ladies of Hollywood 2008.jpg|thumb|upright|''Hollywood and La Brea Gateway'' at the Walk of Fame's west end]]
The ''Hollywood and La Brea Gateway'' is a 1993 cast stainless steel public art installation by architect [[Catherine Hardwicke]].<ref name="Deioma">{{cite web|url=http://golosangeles.about.com/od/laphotogalleries/ig/Hollywood-Photo-Tour/Gateway-to-Hollywood-Sculpture.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208135356/http://golosangeles.about.com/od/laphotogalleries/ig/Hollywood-Photo-Tour/Gateway-to-Hollywood-Sculpture.htm|archivedate=2009-02-08|title=Hollywood La Brea Gateway – The Four Ladies Statue|publisher=Golosangeles.about.com|author=Deioma, Kayte}}</ref> The sculpture, popularly known as ''The Four Ladies of Hollywood'', was commissioned by the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency Art Program as a tribute to the multi-ethnic women of the entertainment industry.<ref name="Art">{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!337237!0#focus|title=Hollywood and La Brea Gateway (sculpture)|publisher=Smithsonian American Museum Art Inventories Catalog|accessdate=2024-01-27|archive-date=June 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120610014442/http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!337237!0#focus|url-status=live}}</ref> The installation consists of a square stainless steel [[Art Deco]]-style structure or gazebo, with an arched roof supporting a circular dome that is topped by a central [[obelisk]] with descending neon block letters spelling "Hollywood" on each of its four sides. Atop the obelisk is a small gilded weather vane-style sculpture of [[Marilyn Monroe]] in her iconic billowing skirt pose from ''[[The Seven Year Itch]]''. The corners of the domed structure are supported by four [[caryatid]]s sculpted by Harl West<ref name="Art"/> representing African-American actress [[Dorothy Dandridge]], Asian-American actress [[Anna May Wong]], Mexican actress [[Dolores del Río]], and Brooklyn-born actress [[Mae West]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.justabovesunset.com/photography/html/the_silver_women.html|title=The Silver Women" (photo montage)|publisher=JustAboveSunset.com|accessdate=2024-01-27|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910081021/http://www.justabovesunset.com/photography/html/the_silver_women.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The installation stands at the western end of the Hollywood Walk of Fame at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and North La Brea Avenue.<ref name="Deioma"/>
 
The gazebo was dedicated on February 1, 1994, to a mixed reception. ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' art critic Christopher Knight called it "the most depressingly awful work of public art in recent years", representing the opposite of Hardwicke's intended tribute to women. "Sex, as a woman's historic gateway to Hollywood", he wrote, "couldn't be more explicitly described".<ref>{{cite news|last=Knight|first=Christopher|date=January 19, 1994|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-19-ca-13098-story.html|title=Caution: Bad Art Up Ahead|newspaper=Los Angeles Times (archives)|access-date=June 17, 2010|archive-date=June 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619153747/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-19-ca-13098-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Independent writer and film producer Gail Choice called it a fitting tribute to a group of pioneering and courageous women who "carried a tremendous burden on their feminine shoulders". "Never in my wildest dreams did I believe I'd ever see women of color immortalized in such a creative and wonderful fashion."<ref>{{cite news|last=Choice|first=Gale|date=February 14, 1994|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-14-ca-22913-story.html|title=These Women Were Dreamers and Doers|newspaper=Los Angeles Times (archives)|access-date=June 17, 2010|archive-date=August 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808010827/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-14-ca-22913-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Hardwicke contended that critics had missed the "humor and symbolism" of the structure, which "embraces and pokes fun at the glamour, the polished metallic male form of the Oscar, and the pastiche of styles and dreams that pervades Tinseltown."<ref>{{cite news|last=Hardwicke|first=Catherine|date=February 14, 1994|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-14-ca-22915-story.html|title=Critic Missed the Humor and Symbolism|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=June 17, 2010|archive-date=June 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619153811/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-14-ca-22915-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
In June 2019, the Marilyn Monroe statue above the gazebo was stolen by Austin Clay, who had vandalized Donald Trump's star a year earlier.<ref name=":1"/>
 
==Homage==
[[File:Michael Jackson Star.JPG|thumb|alt=Recording artist Michael Jackson's star, surrounded by flowers, candles, and cards, as observed about two weeks after his death in 2009|Michael Jackson's star, about two weeks after [[Death of Michael Jackson|his death]] in mid-2009]]
Some fans show respect for star recipients both living and dead by laying flowers or other symbolic tributes at their stars.<ref name="Halpern">{{cite book|title=Fame junkies: the hidden truths behind America's favorite addiction|first=Jake|last=Halpern|publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]]|year=2006|isbn=978-0-618-45369-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/famejunkieshidde00halp/page/159 159]|url=https://archive.org/details/famejunkieshidde00halp|url-access=registration}}</ref> Others show their support in other ways; the star awarded to [[Julio Iglesias]], for example, is kept in "pristine condition [by] a devoted band of elderly women [who] scrub and polish it once a month".<ref name="Halpern"/>
 
The [[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]] has adopted the tradition of placing flower wreaths at the stars of newly deceased awardees; for example, [[Bette Davis]] in 1989,<ref>{{cite news|title=Floral Tribute to Late Actress|newspaper=[[The Union Democrat]]|date=October 10, 1989|page=5A|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WB5ZAAAAIBAJ&pg=4034,906511|via=[[Google News]]|access-date=April 1, 2020|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910081058/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WB5ZAAAAIBAJ&pg=4034,906511|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Katharine Hepburn]] in 2003, and [[Jackie Cooper]] in 2011.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iY4I6N_wuSGo1kIuhAW222m5IYEw?docId=CNG.c4e5aaec1a6b9ae498dbebf05c7cebdc.1461|title='Superman' Daily Planet actor Jackie Cooper dies|newspaper=Google News|agency=(AFP)|date=May 4, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223071143/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iY4I6N_wuSGo1kIuhAW222m5IYEw?docId=CNG.c4e5aaec1a6b9ae498dbebf05c7cebdc.1461|archive-date=February 23, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> The stars of other deceased celebrities, such as [[Michael Jackson]], [[Bruce Lee]], [[Farrah Fawcett]], [[Elizabeth Taylor]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/8403554/Elizabeth-Taylor-Walk-of-Fame-deluged-by-flowers.html|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/8403554/Elizabeth-Taylor-Walk-of-Fame-deluged-by-flowers.html|archive-date=January 11, 2022|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|date =March 24, 2011|title=Elizabeth Taylor: Walk of Fame deluged by flowers|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] (UK)}}{{cbignore}}</ref> [[Charles Aznavour]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://frenchmorning.com/mort-de-charles-aznavour-lemotion-palpable-jusqua-hollywood/|date=October 3, 2018|title=Mort de Charles Aznavour : l'émotion palpable jusqu'à Hollywood|newspaper=French Morning|access-date=March 4, 2020|archive-date=August 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801185229/https://frenchmorning.com/mort-de-charles-aznavour-lemotion-palpable-jusqua-hollywood/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Richard Pryor]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Richard Pryor Influence Is Unforgettable|first=George M.|last=Thomas|agency=Knight-Ridder|newspaper=[[The Vindicator]]|date=December 15, 2005|page=D5|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0NFIAAAAIBAJ&pg=4941,9432779&dq=flowers+on+hollywood+walk+of+fame+richard+pryor&hl=en|access-date=April 1, 2020|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910081022/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0NFIAAAAIBAJ&pg=4941,9432779&dq=flowers+on+hollywood+walk+of+fame+richard+pryor&hl=en|url-status=live}}(Google News arch)</ref> [[Ricardo Montalbán]], [[James Doohan]], [[Frank Sinatra]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Sinatra's death brings sales surge for his music|newspaper=[[Star-News]]|page=2A|date=May 18, 1998|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jtpOAAAAIBAJ&pg=6380,1198936|via=[[Google News]]|access-date=April 1, 2020|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910081023/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jtpOAAAAIBAJ&pg=6380,1198936|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Across America, A Plaintive Note Of Mourning|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|first1=Sharon|last1=Waxman|first2=Paula|last2=Span|date=May 16, 1998|page=A1|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/29498149.html?dids=29498149:29498149&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=May+16%2C+1998&author=Sharon+Waxman%3B+Paula+Span&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Across+America%2C+A+Plaintive+Note+Of+Mourning&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120725091806/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/29498149.html?dids=29498149:29498149&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=May+16%2C+1998&author=Sharon+Waxman%3B+Paula+Span&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Across+America%2C+A+Plaintive+Note+Of+Mourning&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 25, 2012|access-date=May 22, 2011}}</ref> [[Robin Williams]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Fans mourn death of Robin Williams on Hollywood Walk of Fame|newspaper=[[LA Times]]|date=August 12, 2014|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-robin-williams-death-hollywood-fans-20140812-story.html|access-date=February 20, 2020|archive-date=February 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217041102/https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-robin-williams-death-hollywood-fans-20140812-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Joan Rivers]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ksdk.com/article/entertainment/tributes-flowers-mount-before-joan-rivers-funeral/63-278837905|title=Tributes, flowers mount before Joan Rivers' funeral|website=ksdk.com|date=September 5, 2014|access-date=May 9, 2021|archive-date=October 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020230623/http://www.ksdk.com/article/entertainment/tributes-flowers-mount-before-joan-rivers-funeral/63-278837905|url-status=live}}</ref> [[George Harrison]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Harrison Remembered At Hollywood Walk Of Fame|agency=AP|newspaper=[[Lodi News-Sentinel]]|date=December 1, 2001|page=16|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dhQ0AAAAIBAJ&pg=3457,3783463|via=[[Google News]]|access-date=April 1, 2020|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910081024/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dhQ0AAAAIBAJ&pg=3457,3783463|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Aretha Franklin]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abc7.com/3975097/|title=Aretha Franklin fans honor 'Queen of Soul' with flowers, crown at singer's Hollywood Walk of Fame star|first1=Leo|last1=Stallworth|first2=Veronica|last2=Miracle|date=August 17, 2018|website=ABC7 Los Angeles|access-date=May 9, 2021|archive-date=May 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509192259/https://abc7.com/3975097/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Stan Lee]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/14/stan-lee-marvel-new-superhero-dirt-man-daughter|title=Stan Lee was working on a new superhero called Dirt Man, says daughter|last=Flood|first=Alison|date=November 14, 2018|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=November 17, 2018|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910081124/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/14/stan-lee-marvel-new-superhero-dirt-man-daughter|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Betty White]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-12-31|title=Hollywood Walk of Fame memorial for Betty White scheduled for Friday afternoon|url=https://www.foxla.com/news/hollywood-walk-of-fame-memorial-for-betty-white-scheduled-for-friday-afternoon|access-date=2022-01-07|website=FOX 11|language=en-US|archive-date=December 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211231212338/https://www.foxla.com/news/hollywood-walk-of-fame-memorial-for-betty-white-scheduled-for-friday-afternoon|url-status=live}}</ref> have become impromptu memorial and vigil sites as well, and some continue to receive anniversary remembrances.
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==See also==
*[[List of halls and walks of fame#Walks of fame|List of halls and walks of fame]]
 
==Notes==
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