The Chinese Theatre will be literally steps from our hotel. As is the entire Hollywood & Highland complex where they hold the Oscars now (and, as Kevin noted once on the podcast, was the former home of the Janice Dickenson Modelling Agency).
Whenever John talks about his aversion to eating fish, I'm reminded of Hollywood & Highland. I was there for the 2001 Oscars, shortly after it opened, and there was a new restaurant called "Vert" by Wolfgang Puck. It was at that restaurant that I completely overcame my own fish-phobia via the best seared rare ahi tuna I've ever eaten (still to this day). This fish was so tender, I didn't have to cut into it; you could just rest the knife on the surface, and it slid in effortlessly by the force of gravity alone. Sadly, the restaurant is no longer there.
Across the street is the Disney-owned El Capitan Theatre which is not as impressive on the outside as the Chinese Theatre, but far more impressive inside, in my opinion. We get a behind-the-scenes look at it on our tour.