Oh, no, don't say this! During my visits to LA I ALWAYS take a bus tour! I love them! The best, the absolute best is the "Dearly Departed - Tragical History Tour of Hollywood".
http://dearlydepartedtours.com/
This tour, in a minibus that seats only 12, is fabulously narrated by the guide/driver and is a great introduction to the Hollywood area. As for the famous deaths, we ranged from up into the hills beneath the Hollywood sign to the various nearby neighborhoods to see the houses where famous stars once lived. Well worth the cost of the tour and our guide/driver was the owner who knows his Hollywood history and has a wonderful sense of humor. About famous deaths. He even pointed out the spot on the sidewalk where Fred Mertz (Willam Frawley) of "I LOve Lucy" dropped dead of a heart attack! (I kid you not.)
And another one I took was the then newly established "TMZ Tour"........
Edited to add: On the "Death Tour" there were some LA natives accompanying their out-of-town relatives on the tour. They were as enthusiastic as we tourists, said they had never taken a tour before and could not believe how much they had learned during this one. It was like, on which other tour would you take a bathroom break at the small park where British rocker George Michael was once arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover police officer?