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| | Hollywood & Highland Oscar Hub Opens - Nov 09, 2001 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Brian Chuan, director of tourism for the project (which has taken three years to build), told E! Online that visitors have long wanted "their dreams fulfilled" on what had become a strip of rundown theaters, low-rent restaurants, cheap souvenir shops and seedy sidewalk life. |
 | | The Chinese Theater has been incorporated into the new 1.3 million-square-foot complex, although the famed landmark is now painted a lower-key gray with orange accents rather that its traditional Oriental lacquer red. |
 | | But the focal point is the 3,650 seat state-of-the-art Kodak Theater, where the Oscars will be handed out in March, followed by a gala held in the adjacent Grand Ballroom which is operated by famed chef Wolfgang Puck. |
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