Making ‘Friends’ and Neighbors
“Friends” star Matthew Perry, who is filming the movie “The Whole Nine Yards” with Bruce Willis and co-stars with Neve Campbell and Dylan McDermott in the soon-to-be-released romantic comedy “Three to Tango,” has purchased a Beverly Hills home for about $3.2 million.
The rock, steel and glass house has been described as having an “almost industrial” look, with city-to-ocean views. Built in the 1970s, the one-story house has four bedrooms in 6,500 square feet.
Perry, 29, has played the neurotic Chandler Bing on the hit NBC ensemble-comedy series since it started in 1994. He appeared with the late Chris Farley in the movie “Almost Heroes” (1998) and co-starred with Salma Hayek in the movie “Fools Rush In” (1997).
Perry’s father, actor John Bennett Perry, played his father in “Fools Rush In”; his mother, Suzanne Morrison, was press secretary to then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada.
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Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, who received the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers’ highest honor in May, has sold a Hollywood Hills house that she owned to Frank Lombardi, a writer and executive producer of the long-running sitcom “The Nanny.”
The pop icon, 55, sold the three-bedroom, 2,500-square-foot home behind gates for about its asking price of $829,000. She had purchased the property two years ago as an investment, then refurbished the house before putting it on the market in February.
Mitchell, one of a number of female guest artists performing on the Chieftains’ “Tears of Stone” album released in February, is working on an album of jazz standards.
She has a home in the L.A. area where she has lived for 25 years.
Jay Leslie Hofstadter, who has offices in the Agoura area, had the listing; Gayle Weiss of Coldwell Banker’s Brentwood office represented Lombardi.
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Glen Keane, supervising animator for the just-released Disney movie “Tarzan,” and his wife, Linda, are having Los Angeles architect Rick Robertson design a 12,000-square-foot “rambling and whimsical” retreat for them at Lake Arrowhead. The Keanes live in Paris.
Features will include a gazebo on the dock and a kitchen fireplace.
The couple bought the three-acre site a few years ago from the Knott’s Berry Farm family. An existing house will be razed before construction starts next year.
Keane, in his mid-40s, was supervising animator for “Pocahontas” (1995), “Aladdin” (1992) and “Beauty and the Beast” (1991). He joined Walt Disney Studios as an animator trainee in 1974.
Hot Property is published Thursdays in SoCal Living and Sundays in Real Estate. Ryon may be reached by e-mail at ruth.ryon@latimes.com.
