YOU ARE
THE STAR.
A Hollywood mural becomes the exterior of Sebastian’s restaurant workplace.
The mural beside Lipton’s fictional entrance. Photograph predates the film. Mural by Thomas Suriya.
Photography & credits
You are the Star mural 1983 by Thomas Suriya by shimown · CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized and converted to WebP. Display crops vary with screen size. The photograph retains the linked licence.
NOT JUST
A PIN.
A MOMENT.
The mural on Wilcox Avenue stands in for Lipton’s exterior, while the interior was filmed at Smoke House in Burbank. It is a perfect example of cinema stitching distant real places into one fictional location.
LIPTON’S EXTERIOR · 1648 WILCOX AVE · HOLLYWOODFIND THE
FRAME.
The location photograph above shows the real place; the panel below identifies the scene details to look for.
VISUAL LANDMARKS
A matched screen-to-location comparison is not available yet. Look for these features in the location view and scene notes.
- MURAL
- DOORWAY
- CURB
- FACADE
RECREATE
THE SHOT.
Recreate the exterior approach and preserve the mural/building relationship; then expose the jump to the Burbank interior as part of the story.
- LOCATION
- 1648 WILCOX AVE · HOLLYWOOD
- SCENE
- LIPTON’S EXTERIOR
- STATUS
- Exact-match photography required
- ALIGN
- MURAL · DOORWAY · CURB · FACADE
STEP
INSIDE.
The edit jumps from this Hollywood facade to the Smoke House in Burbank.
GO TO THE INTERIOR →