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It was Jean-Paul Sartre who wrote, "Hell is other people." Today, thanks to an LAT profile of the Archstone apartments in Studio City, where the desperately pre-famous temporarily flock while they await their big breaks, we can offer this corollary: "Hell is living in an apartment complex in the Valley with three hundred Olive Garden waitresses, their dreams of sitcom walk-on roles, and their chihuahuas."

"There's a lot of networking going on here," says Ledyard, who recently went to her first audition, for the Disneyland "Snow White" musical. "All of my roommates want to get into TV or film or theater, and both the scene and the location of the complex are great for that." [...]

Archstone's rule admitting dogs that weigh 30 pounds or less was seemingly written by Paris Hilton herself and accounts for the daylong parade of women in hip-grazing sweatpants who stroll along the swath of grass in front of the building, cellphones in hand, with Louis Vuitton purse-size canines in tow.

Excuse us, but we have an errand to run. We're going to spend the rest of the day wandering the corridors of the Archstone in an "Ask Me About How I Can Make You Famous" t-shirt, and we're leaving our pants in the car.