Task 3. Read the article. Six sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the
sentences A-G the one which fits each gap (14-19). There is one extra sentence which you do not
need to use. For questions 14 – 19 write the correct letter A – G on the answer sheet.
Ever since the 1910s, when film-makers like Cecil B. DeMille first set up shop in
Hollywood, mapmakers, the explorers of the city’s social terrain, have been compiling
that only-in-Los Angeles fixture, maps showing the locations of the fabulous homes of
the stars. Collectively, they form an unofficial version of the Oscars, reflecting who’s in
and who’s out in the film world. ‘Each one looks different’, says Linda Welton, whose
grandfather and mother pioneered these maps. (14) ________. Former icons vanish from
them, new ones appear on them, and some of the truly greats are permanent fixtures on
them.
In 1933, noticing the steady stream of tourists drifting westward to follow the stars
from Hollywood to Beverly Hills, the nearby district where most of the stars went to
live, Ms. Welton’s grandfather, Wesley G Lake, obtained a copyright for his Guide to
Starland Estates and Mansions. (15) _________. For 40 years Ms. Welton’s mother,
Vivienne E. Welton sold maps just down the road from Gary Cooper’s place at 200
Baroda. The asterisk indicated that it was the actor’s final home, as opposed to a plus
sign (denoting a former home) or a zero (for no view from the street).
‘My grandfather asked Mom to talk to the gardeners to find out where the stars lived’,
Ms. Welton recalls. ‘She’d say: ‘Oh, this is a beautiful garden. Who lives here?’ Who
would suspect a little girl? Ms. Welton and her crew now sell about 10 000 maps a year
from a folding chair parked curbside six days a week. (16) __________.
The evolution of the maps mirrors both the Hollywood publicity machine and real
estate and tourism development. (17) __________. The first celebrity home, according to
Marc Wanamaker, a historian and a founder of the Westwood and Beverly Hills
Historical Societies belonged to the artist Paul de Longpre. He had a luxuriously landscaped house at Cahuenga Avenue and Hollywood and real estate agents would
take prospective clients past it on tours.
Although it is not known for certain who published the first map, by the mid-1920s all
sorts of people were producing them. (18) ____________.
One of the most famous of the early maps was produced to show the location of
Pickfair, the sprawling home of the newly married stars Mary Pickford and Douglas
Fairbanks Sr, and the homes of some of their star friends. During World War I, they
opened their home to serve refreshments to soldiers. As Vivienne Welton once
explained in an interview with Mercator’s World, a map and cartography magazine,
‘She urged a few friends to do the same. (19) __________.
For over 40 years, people have marched toward the corner of Sunset and Baroda with
hand-painted yellow signs saying: ‘Star Maps, 2 blocks’, ‘Star Maps, 1 block’, ‘Star Maps
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here’. The maps reflect the shifting geography of stardom as celebrities, seeking escape
from over-enthusiastic fans, some with ill intentions, have moved out to other locations.
A. As they do so, they give advice to the tourists on star safaris through the lime
green landscape of Beverly Hills.
B. Studios like Paramount published the names and addresses of its stars on theirs,
and businesses distributed them as a promotional gimmick.
C. Others, however, say that the star maps are still an essential part of Hollywood
and the film world.
D. Early film stars like Lillian Gish lived in modest, somewhat grubby rooming
houses, taking street cars to and from the studio.
E. Updated regularly, they are still for sale at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and
Baroda Drive.
F. And so a map was needed.
G. It is the oldest continuously published star map and one of a half-dozen or so
maps of varying degrees of accuracy and spelling correctness sold today.
