‘Pepper’s’ Beat Is Beverly Hills

Actress ANGIE DICKINSON has purchased the Beverly Hills home of late cartoonist Walter Lantz, according to public records.

Dickinson, who participated in a tribute to late songwriter Sammy Cahn in Hollywood earlier this year, played a glamorous but wicked grandmother in Oliver Stone’s 1993 miniseries “Wild Palms,” but she is probably best known for her lead role as Sgt. Pepper Anderson in the ‘70s series “Police Woman” and as the steamy star of Brian De Palma’s “Dressed to Kill” (1980).

Now appearing with Uma Thurman and John Hurt in the film “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,” Dickinson, 61, caused a stir last November when she walked out on a surprise taping of a “This is Your Life” tribute to her, saying that she had “great regret” but “just couldn’t do the show.”

Lantz, who created Woody Woodpecker and other familiar cartoon characters, died in March at the age of 94. His wife, Gracie, provided Woody’s voice and boisterous laugh in hundreds of cartoons until she died at 88 in 1992.

The Lantzes had owned the one-story contemporary home since it was built in 1966. The house has two bedrooms in nearly 5,000 square feet and a pool.

Dickinson bought the home for just under its $1.25-million asking price, a number of sources have said.

Academy Award-winning composer BURT BACHARACH’S Malibu home is on the market at $3.5 million. Bacharach, 65, decided to sell the home, which he has owned for the past four years, because he recently got remarried and wants to move on with his life, sources say.

Bacharach, who met his current wife, Mary, in Aspen, was previously married to singer/interior designer Paula Stewart, actress Angie Dickinson and songwriter Carole Bayer Sager.

Sager teamed with him to win the Academy Award for best song in 1981 for “Arthur’s Theme.” They also won the song-of-the-year Grammy in 1986 for “That’s What Friends Are For.” Bacharach’s hit-making collaborators of the ‘60s, with whom he joined forces again last year, are lyricist Hal David and singer Dionne Warwick.

A horse enthusiast, Bacharach owns Soul of the Matter. A leading contender in this year’s Kentucky Derby, the colt finished fifth in the race last month.

On the beach side of Malibu, Bacharach’s Cape Cod-style home has three bedrooms in nearly 4,000 square feet, with orchards and flower gardens stretching over its 1.5-acre grounds to the water.

“We opened up the house to have a view of the ocean,” said Beverly Hills designer Waldo Fernandez, who recently worked with Bacharach to refurbish the home, built in 1978.

Fernandez described the home as “country style, with a veranda all around” and “a huge window seat in the living room.” The home also has a room over the garage for guests.

Carol Rapf of Jim Rapf & Associates, Malibu, has the listing.

NORA BLACK, who was once married to Errol Flynn and is the mother of two daughters by the late actor, has sold her Hollywood Hills home to Polish-born actress BEATA POZNIAK, who played Marina Oswald in the 1991 film “JFK.”

Black moved to a West Hollywood condo after selling the home to Pozniak. Pozniak, a first-time home buyer, paid $375,000 for the three-bedroom house, which Black built 22 years ago, sources say.

Rhoda Paramore of Fred Sands’ Hollywood Hills office represented Black in the sale, and Grace Sielewicz of Jon Douglas Co.’s Beverly Hills office represented Pozniak.