Room With a View for This Hockey Fan
Tom Hanks has leased a 12-seat luxury suite at the Staples Center, where the Lakers, Clippers and Kings will play after the $350-million downtown L.A. arena opens in October.
The two-time Oscar-winning actor, star of the Golden Globe-winning “Saving Private Ryan” and of “You’ve Got Mail,” leased a 450-square-foot suite at $257,500 a year. The duration isn’t known, but the leases are for four, seven and 10 years.
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Feb. 4, 1999 For the Record
Los Angeles Times Thursday February 4, 1999 Home Edition Southern California Living Part E Page 1 View Desk 2 inches; 45 words Type of Material: Correction
The Web site address for the Staples Center, where actor Tom Hanks leased a luxury suite (Hot Property, Jan. 28), is https://staplescenterla.com. Among events that may be held at the L.A. arena are next year’s Grammy Awards, not the ’99 show.
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Hanks is only the third individual to have leased one of the 160 suites, priced annually from $197,000 to $300,000. Game-show host Pat Sajak was the first, and L.A. Kings defenseman Rob Blake negotiated a leased suite in his new contract.
All but 35 of the rest of the suites have been leased by companies and law firms. The suites will each have a refrigerator, wet bar and entertainment center with a wide-screen digital TV and two monitors for satellite feeds of other NHL and NBA games. A model is on view at Staples Center offices downtown and at https://www.staplescenter.com.
Hanks has been seen at Kings’ games and is known to be a hockey fan. The center, which is being considered for the next Democratic National Convention and the ’99 Grammy Awards show, is also expected to have concerts and family shows.
Hanks, 42, is married to actress Rita Wilson.
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Alan Ladd Jr., who headed MGM/UA before signing with Paramount to develop and co-produce such movies as “Braveheart” (1995), and his wife, Cindra, have bought the Beverly Hills home of producer Freddie Fields and his wife, Corinna, for less than its $6.2-million asking price. Built in 1928, the 10,000-square-foot-plus house has four bedrooms plus two maids quarters.
Ladd, 61, is the son of the late ‘40s and ‘50s star Alan Ladd (“Shane,” 1953). The producer is developing the World War II movie “With Wings of Eagles.”
Fields, in his early 70s, is executive producer of “The Montel Williams Show” and produced such movies as “Glory” (1989). He was once the agent for Henry Fonda and Barbra Streisand. Fields recently bought a 5,000-square-foot home plus guest house in Beverly Hills.
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Jillian Barberie, co-host of the KTTV-TV show “Good Day, L.A.” with Steve Edwards and Dorothy Lucey, and her husband, former baseball player Bret Barberie, have purchased a San Fernando Valley home for $685,000. Bret Barberie played with the Chicago Cubs and other teams.
The four-bedroom, 3,100-square-foot contemporary home is on a knoll with valley views.
Harriet Cameron and Mary Schiffman of the Sherman Oaks office of Fred Sands Realtors represented the couple in their purchase.
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