Beverly Center - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• The Beverly Center appears in the Brian De Palma film Body Double.

• The centre appears in the 13th episode of the television series The Colbys where it was shown to be called Bullock's Beverly Centre.

• Scenes from the movie Chopping Mall were shot at the Beverly Center in 1985.

• A chapter in the 1985 Bret Easton Ellis novel Less Than Zero is set in The Beverly Center.

• The Beverly Center was the setting of the 1991 film Scenes from a Mall starring Bette Midler and Woody Allen.

• While under construction, the Beverly Center was used as the backdrop for the 1976 film "Lipstick." This was actually the Pacific Design Center not the Beverly Center in 1976 construction wasn't even started yet.

• The Beverly Center played a part of the plot near the end of the 1997 disaster thriller 'Volcano' starring Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche. A triage and childcare center for neighboring Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was set up in the mall's Hard Rock Cafe. This was evacuated when a geyser of lava erupted out of San Vicente Boulevard, threatening the structure and its occupants.

• Crispin Hellion Glover briefly references the Beverly Center in his song, Auto-Manipulator: "the fine clean girl at the Beverly Center..."

• In the song "The Mall" by Gang Starr, Guru references the Beverly center by saying "All the way from Green Acre's to the Beverly Center, heads turn, and I'm the main concern when I enter"

• Usher the R&B singer alludes to the paparazzi spotting him having an affair with a woman at the Beverly Center in his song, Confessions: "I was hand in hand in the Beverly Center like man not giving a damn who sees me."

• The Beverly Center appears numerous times throughout the first three seasons of the animated cartoon Totally Spies!. They don't show it at all in the fourth or fifth seasons, after introducing The Groove, which is a parody of The Grove.

• On May 18, 2009, rap artist Dolla was fatally shot at the Beverly Center.

• In the new 90210 the Beverly Center is referenced to when the father of the minor character called Harper threatens that if she does not get a grant, she will be working there.