Four people were beaten to death with baseball bats at an upscale heroin shooting gallery in Laurel Canyon.

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The Jaguar XKR made me hunger for the romance of old Hollywood, as I winded up the curves of Laurel Canyon Road, and disappeared into the sunset.

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When the singer Luther Vandross was charged with manslaughter after his best friend died in a car accident with Vandross driving, L. Peter Parcher, "lawyer to the stars, " devised a slick defense: An olive tree had dropped its slippery nuggets precisely where the crash occurred on Hollywood's Laurel Canyon Boulevard.

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