Character building on Hollywood Boulevard :

Hollywood is full of wannabes. The nearest most of them will get to fame is Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame, dressed as Superman or Wonder Woman. The characters are a big tourist attraction and are now the subject of a documentary. David Willis went to meet some of them.

Superman is one of about 80 characters who crowd the boulevard
Superman stubbed out a cigarette and started searching for his keys. Adjusting his blood-red cape, he flashed a final glance at a web camera pointed at Hollywood Boulevard.
It was a hot summer's day and tourists were spilling out of gaily painted buses and flooding the strip.
The superhero descended from his one-bedroomed apartment two stairs at a time, stopping briefly to banter with his Mexican neighbours before striding for the boulevard a block away.
Christopher Dennis was once an unemployed actor working at a hamburger joint across the street.