House Won’t Miss a Beat
Oscar- and Grammy-winning composer BURT BACHARACH has sold his beachfront Malibu home of five years to Academy Award-winning arranger/composer Hans Zimmer and his wife, Suzanne.
Zimmer won his Oscar this year for scoring and arranging the Elton John and Tim Rice songs in Disney’s “The Lion King.” Zimmer’s other film credits include “Rain Man,” “Driving Miss Daisy” and “Renaissance Man.”
Bacharach, 66, sold the house so he could “move on with his life,” sources said last June, when he first listed the home at $3.5 million. Bacharach paid $3.6 million for the house in 1990, and it sold for $2.8 million, sources say.
Bacharach, who now lives in a Santa Monica condo, put his Malibu home on the market soon after he remarried following his divorce from songwriter Carole Bayer Sager, with whom he won the best-song Oscar in 1981 for “Arthur’s Theme.” They also won the 1986 song-of-the-year Grammy for “That’s What Friends Are For.”
Two of his old songs (“What the World Needs Now Is Love” and “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head”) are in this year’s best-film Oscar winner, “Forrest Gump.”
Bacharach is also known for owning the racehorses Afternoon Deelites, which finished eighth in this year’s Kentucky Derby, and Soul of the Matter, which ran fifth in the race last year.
Built in 1978 and recently remodeled to take advantage of the ocean views, the Cape Cod-style Malibu house has three bedrooms in about 4,000 square feet. Orchards and flower gardens stretch over its 1.5-acre grounds.
Carol Rapf of Pritchett Rapf & Associates, Malibu, had the listing, and Matt Rapf of the same firm represented the buyers.
RAY LIOTTA, who co-starred with Whoopi Goldberg in the romantic comedy “Corrina, Corrina” (1994), has purchased a Pacific Palisades home for close to its $2.5-million asking price, sources say.
Liotta, who is probably best known for playing the drugged-out Mafia renegade in “Good Fellas” (1990) and the brutal cop in “Unlawful Entry” (1992), won a Golden Globe nomination for his 1986 film debut in “Something Wild,” opposite Melanie Griffith. He also played baseball legend “Shoeless” Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams” (1989) and a Marine captain convicted of killing his commanding officer in the film “No Escape” (1994).
Born and raised in New Jersey, Liotta, 39, had been living in the suburbs north of Los Angeles since coming to California in the early 1980s.
His new residence is a three-story Mediterranean-style home, built in 1992, with five bedrooms and seven baths in a bit more than 8,000 square feet. The three-acre-plus property also has a pool, spa and canyon views.
Liotta’s interests have been said to include “typical, everyday normal things,” from going to the movies with his girlfriend--actress Michelle Grace--to swimming and gardening. He also writes poetry.
Irene Dazzan of Jon Douglas Co., Pacific Palisades, had the listing, and Margaret Montane of Fred Sands’ Hollywood Hills office represented Liotta.
ERIC IDLE, a former “Monty Python” comedy team member and co-star of “Splitting Heirs” (1993) and “Nuns on the Run” (1990), and his wife, Tania, have bought the Laurel Canyon home of composer MICHAEL OLDFIELD for nearly its $1.9-million asking price.
Oldfield, in his 40s, wrote “Tubular Bells” in “The Exorcist III” (1990) and “Weird Science” (1985). He wrote “Tubular Bells II” in 1992, using such sounds as garden shears cutting his lawn. A “Tubular Bells” video features synthesizer players and fireworks.
Idle, 51, stars in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming revival of the ‘60s cult British TV series “Dr. Who,” and he co-stars in Spielberg’s animated/live-action movie “Casper,” due to be released Friday.
Idle and his wife bought the Oldfield home after it was on the market for only two weeks. Oldfield owned the home for a couple of years. He was going to build a music studio there but continued to live in England.
Built in 1930, the Mediterranean-style home in Laurel Canyon has four bedrooms, a guest apartment, office and bonus room in about 6,000 square feet, behind gates. “It has fabulous grounds and is hidden away,” a source said. The home also has a pool and koi pond.
The buyers were represented by Beth Styne and Andrea Farber of Prudential California Realty, Beverly Hills. The seller was represented by Bob Hurwitz of R. Hurwitz Co., Brentwood.
