In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis set an entire chapter of Less Than Zero at the Beverly Center shopping mall. That same year, not to be outdone, some dude allegedly named Ryan Woodward set a 480-page novel there. My friend S_____ gave me a copy as a joke when I moved to Los Angeles in the early 2000s, describing “some very odd interior scenes at what purports to be the Beverly Center circa 1985—all retro-porno-futuristic, like Logan’s Run with hot tubs.” (That last part may be redundant.) My introduction to the actual Beverly Center was Paul Mazursky’s 1991 Bette Midler-Woody Allen vehicle, Scenes From a Mall, which was mostly filmed on a soundstage at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, New York.
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In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis set an entire chapter of Less Than Zero at the Beverly Center shopping mall. That same year, not to be outdone, some dude allegedly named Ryan Woodward set a 480-page novel there.

My friend S_____ gave me a copy as a joke when I moved to Los Angeles in the early 2000s, describing “some very odd interior scenes at what purports to be the Beverly Center circa 1985—all retro-porno-futuristic, like Logan’s Run with hot tubs.” (That last part may be redundant.)

My introduction to the actual Beverly Center was Paul Mazursky’s 1991 Bette Midler-Woody Allen vehicle, Scenes From a Mall, which was mostly filmed on a soundstage at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, New York.

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  1. heller said: Are there any 80s trash novels about the Sherman Oaks Galleria?
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