A Date With the Grave

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( death becomes her [A Date With the Grave]( No one does a funeral scene like the star of Mountain View Cemetery. Photo: Jeff Minton for New York Magazine In the shadow of the San Gabriel Mountains just outside Pasadena, there’s a cemetery called [Mountain View](. It is not the showiest boneyard in greater Los Angeles. While Hollywood Forever and Forest Lawn are the famous final resting places of Walt Disney, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, and Dorothy Dandridge, hosting everything from movie screenings to haunted tours, Mountain View skews toward local Civil War ghosts and the ashes of original TV Superman George Reeves. Forest Lawn has Jean Harlow’s marble crypt; Hollywood Forever, the (perfect) statue of Johnny Ramone. Mountain View has a dutifully kept blog. But that’s not all it has. Smack between two plots containing actual human remains is this Altadena cemetery’s most unusual secondary revenue stream: in the words of Mountain View’s office and operations manager, Luis Treto, “an empty grave we have that’s protected with steel so actors can get inside.” [Read The Story »]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now]( for unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • [The Challenge: Spies, Lies & Allies:](The 500 Club • [Survivor:]( Mergeatory • [Queens:]( Record Companies Are Shady • [The Bachelorette:]( Personal Foul [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [‘The Depth Is in the Pictures, Not What I Say About Them’ Rosalind Fox Solomon has been making haunting photographs for 50 years. She’s got more stories to tell than she lets on.]( [A Casino Is the Perfect Place for a Vampire We talked haunted dolls, jalopies, and Scabby the Rat with the What We Do in the Shadows gang at Comic Con.]( [The Story Behind Stephen McKinley Henderson’s Dune Parasol The character actor on the “magic” of making Dune, calling up Greta Gerwig from the set, and how he found his shade in the sun.]( [We Need to Talk About the Name ‘Duncan Idaho’ Duncan Idaho is not a character in Dune. Duncan Idaho is the name of a Chris Pratt character in an action movie that goes straight to Paramount+.]( [Kwon Yeo-sun’s Lemon Is a Murder Mystery That Refuses to Be Solved The novel by Kwon Yeo-sun tracks the aftermath of a teen girl’s murder, with three very unreliable narrators.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Vulture Recommends We consume it all so you don’t have to. Photo-Illustration: Vulture May we suggest [6 spooky podcasts to listen to right now.]( [Read more from Vulture]( If you enjoyed reading Vulture’s daily newsletter, forward it to a friend. Or dive deeper into the Vulture universe with our other newsletters: • [1.5x Speed](: Podcast recommendations and listening notes from Nick Quah, sent every Wednesday. • [Buffering](: Joe Adalian reports on the streaming industry, sent every Thursday. • [The Housewives Institute Bulletin](: For dedicated students of the Reality TV Arts and Sciences, sent every other Friday. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=daily) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2021, All rights reserved