Because she's leaving for Europe in a day or two, Dushku needs to go home and pack. Our final stop is the Laurel Canyon Country Store, a groovy grocery not far from her house. Referenced in the Doors song "Love Street" -- "I see you live on Love Street / There's this store where the creatures meet / I wonder what they do in there" -- the tiny shop stocked with high-end, hippie-inflected food and drink is something of an LA institution.
Star turn
She made it coast to coast and now actress Eliza Dushku is at home with the Angelenos
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In the '60s, the likes of Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa, and Three Dog Night performed on the patio, and the store also shows up in such classic films as "Sunset Boulevard " and "The Fog ." Dushku buys a batch of sage incense and a bottle of All Shook Up Sauvignon Blanc -- the King is in full swivel on the Graceland Cellars label -- while I gaze at a signed photo of Priscilla Presley -- pre-plastic surgery, of course -- that hangs behind the register.
"When I first moved here, LA didn't seem like my kind of place at all, and any time I flew back to Boston I'd tell people here, I'm going home, " Dushku says. "But since I bought my house, that's kind of changed. I'm comfortable now."
With that, she gets into her black Mercedes convertible and, with the top down, rides off into the Hollywood Hills.
Contact Mark Shanahan at shanahan@globe.com.
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