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The Willows: A hidden retreat in Palm Springs
Special to the Los Angeles TimesA decade ago, when my wife and I were honeymooning on Italy's Amalfi Coast, we'd talked — maybe even vowed — to return there for our 10th wedding anniversary if we still liked each other. After all, it would be 10 years. That's a pretty big...Tags: Bob Hope, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Music, Marriage, French Toast
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Southern California Close-Ups: Venice, Santa Monica, Malibu
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterYou could spend a solid year sniffing out cool spots for travelers in Venice, Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades and Malibu — scores of hotels, hundreds of restaurants and bars, more than 30 miles of coastline. But you're new to the scene, or you...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Gymnastics Clubs, John Doe, Music, Parallel Bars Gymnastics
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$600,000-a-month lease hits the market in Beverly Hills
The current luxury real estate market is redefining “extravagant.” First, a 8,930-square-foot house on nine acres in Northern California found a buyer for a state record-breaking $117 million. Then word came that financier Gary Winnick is...
Tags: Hugh Hefner, Michael Jackson, Real Estate Buyers, Real Estate Sellers, William Randolph Hearst
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This won't last: Beverly Hills house for lease, $600,000 a month
How much would you pay to live where William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies called home? How steep is too steep to sleep where John and Jacqueline Kennedy honeymooned? OK, rich kids of Instagram, what would you say to a Beverly Hills manse with a...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Starbucks Corp., William Randolph Hearst, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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Richard Collins dies at 98; onetime blacklisted screenwriter
Richard Collins, a screenwriter during the McCarthy era who was blacklisted for several years before he cooperated with the Communist-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee, died Thursday in Ventura. The onetime Communist Party member was 98...
Tags: Bob Hope, Russia, Chinatown (movie), Michael Collins, Los Angeles Times
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Steady stream of PCH traffic, but miles of ocean too
Special to The TimesThis is a neighborhood people hurtle past at 60 miles an hour (though the posted speed is 45), where houses are built just a few yards from a major six-lane highway, yet residents can step out their back gates and walk barefoot to the local restaurant...Tags: Mary Pickford, Property, Irving Berlin, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Dining and Drinking
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Sunnylands: The making of a mansion's mystique
L.A. at HomeSunnylands: A timeline in the history of Walter and Leonore Annenbergs' landmark mansion in Rancho Mirage.... -
Beachfront NIMBYs
JOEL BRAND is chairman of Friends of 415 PCH.ALTHOUGH thousands of $400-a-night hotel rooms have sprung up along our coastline in the past decades, few if any new campgrounds, parks or other public facilities have been built to accommodate the other 98% of Californians who can't afford to pay five-...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Dining and Drinking, William Randolph Hearst, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Age of innocence and hope
I can't think of a better way to begin this column than to let a fellow pundit get things going. So I'll turn things over to Allene Arthur, who's been writing columns for the Palm Springs Desert Sun for 32 years:
"Fiftieth high school class reunions...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Mickey Rooney, Students, World War II (1939-1945), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Hot Property: Elijah Wood seeks a buyer
"The Lord of the Rings" star Elijah Wood's latest quest is to find a buyer for the Santa Monica house he recently put up for sale at $1.85 million.
The Spanish-style home, built in 1924, is described in the listing as an "opportunity to remodel …...Tags: Kwame Brown, Kobe Bryant, Wilfred (tv program), Real Estate, Human Interest
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Marion Davies' former home sells for $9.3 million
The former Beverly Hills residence of actress and comedian Marion Davies has sold for $9,262,500.
The villa-style mansion was once owned by Harry Cohn, early president of Columbia Pictures, and more recently by screenwriter, novelist and playwright Aleen...Tags: Politics, William Randolph Hearst, Elections, Homes
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Lost L.A.: A Frank Lloyd Wright house on the move?
L.A. at HomeThe photo, circa 1923, shows the Frank Lloyd Wright house known as La Miniatura in Pasadena, before the guest house was added, and long before the talk of an owner potentially moving the landmark to Japan. In his latest Lost L.A. column, Sam Watters...
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