Fifteen years ago, I wouldn't have walked alone at the corner of
Hollywood & Highland in L.A. But it's now the center of tourist's
Hollywood, spiffed and spruced up ever since the Oscars moved to the Kodak Theatre in 2002. I'd rather duck around camera-toting tourists rather than knife-wielding drug addicts. I wanted to get a closer look at the 637-room, 33-suite Renaissance Holly...