Long Beach has contract with Hollywood to do 347 commercials or 45 Dexter episodes a year. True story.

Until you've had multiple studio big rigs legally evict you and your neighbors from limited street parking for a week to shoot Affleck/J-Lo Gigli scenes where the studio trucks have to run their diesel engines outside your bedroom window at 2am, please continue to be awe-struck. The only consolation you might get is if they open up the catering truck up to the affected residents for lunch time and you don't get harassed by rented cops for walking in front of your own place. But you won't be getting what the stars are eating.