Hopes It’s ‘Gone in 60 Seconds’
Nicolas Cage has listed his Hollywood Hills home at just under $2.2 million.
Cage is shooting the movie “Gone in 60 Seconds” and he co-stars with his wife, Patricia Arquette, in the film “Bringing Out the Dead,” due to be released in October.
The Oscar-winning actor, 35, most recently starred in the thriller “8MM,” which opened in February. Last year, he starred in “Snake Eyes” and “City of Angels.”
Cage and Arquette, 31, were living in the Hollywood Hills home until they moved into a Westside house he bought last year for about $7 million. Cage has owned the Hollywood Hills home since about 1990.
Situated on a knoll, the gated and walled estate was built in 1928 and was recently restored and expanded. The 5,300-square-foot-plus house has five bedrooms, 5 1/2 baths, a circular library, a wine cellar and a humidor.
Joe Babajian and Kyle Grasso of Fred Sands Estates, Beverly Hills, have the listing.
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Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche have purchased a $1.7-million home in the Los Angeles area. They moved to Ojai in January, when they sold their Hancock Park home for about $3.3 million.
Their new home, in Hollywood, has been described as “sleek and modern.” It has four bedrooms in about 3,000 square feet, according to public records.
DeGeneres, former star of the sitcom “Ellen,” played a TV programmer in the movie “EdTV” and co-stars as Kate Capshaw’s best friend in the movie “The Love Letter.” Heche co-starred with Harrison Ford in the movie “Six Days, Seven Nights,” and she starred in the remake of “Psycho.”
DeGeneres, 41, and Heche, 30, worked together on “Miss Conception,” a segment of HBO’s “If These Walls Could Talk 2,” due to air next year. Heche directed the segment featuring DeGeneres and Sharon Stone as a lesbian couple attempting to have a child.
Heche also directed DeGeneres in the short film “Reaching Normal” for the Showtime series “Directed By.”
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Matt Selman, a writer and producer for the Fox TV animated series “The Simpsons,” has become a first-time home buyer with his $656,000 purchase of a Hollywood home owned at one time by the late actor Dick Powell.
Selman, 27, and actress Renee Ridgeley are planning to move in by the end of this month.
Built in 1926, the house is said to have been a secret meeting place for actors Clark Gable and Carole Lombard before they were married in 1939. The four-bedroom, 3,000-square-foot house has a writer’s turret, a minstrel’s gallery and a sweeping fireplace.
David Philp of Kensington Realty, Beverly Hills, represented Selman in his purchase.
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Kevin Elders, director of the soon-to-be-released Dennis Rodman movie “Simon Sez,” has put his Marina del Rey home on the market at slightly more than $1.3 million.
Elders bought the house two years ago from L.A. Laker Sam Perkins, who is now with the Indiana Pacers.
Elders wrote the “Iron Eagle” movie trilogy (1986, 1988, 1992) starring Lou Gossett. “Simon Sez,” an action-comedy starring Rodman, is due to be released in August.
Elders, who went from writing to directing and from married to divorced during the past couple of years, has been spending much of his time on location and has not been using the house as much as he had expected.
The three-bedroom ultra-modern home has a 26-foot-high atrium living-room ceiling, a master suite with an 18-foot-high ceiling, a split-level waterfall, a media room that can double as an editing suite or a recording studio, an office, two fireplaces, and an elevator to all four levels. There is also a roof deck with a spa.
The 4,000-square-foot house, built in 1989 in the Silver Strand area two blocks from the beach, is listed with Bill Kennedy, executive director of the Sports & Entertainment Division, Coldwell Banker, Santa Monica.
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The Beverly Hills home where Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles wrote much of their Oscar-winning masterpiece “Citizen Kane” (1941), based on the life of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, has come on the market at about $2.4 million.
“Citizen Kane” was voted No. 1 last year in the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 greatest American movies produced during the first 100 years of American filmmaking.
Built by Mankiewicz in the late 1920s and recently updated, the house has five bedrooms, 4 1/2 baths and a guest house in about 5,300 square feet. The Spanish villa also has a pool with a waterfall and a large yard with a rare tea tree.
Mankiewicz, who had worked as an assistant to playwright George S. Kaufman when Kaufman was a drama critic at the New York Times, left New York for Hollywood in the mid-’20s to become a screenwriter and producer. He died in 1953.
An attorney and his wife have owned the home since 1969.
Barbara Tenenbaum and Bobbie Ross of Fred Sands Estates, Beverly Hills, have the listing.
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Carolyn Wyatt, widow of Wallace “Wally” Wolf, the Olympic swimmer turned longtime entertainment attorney, has listed her seven-acre Santa Ynez Valley ranch at $975,000.
“This was my home with my late husband, and I need to move on, though I want to stay in the area,” she said. Wolf, who died in 1997, won a gold medal at the 1948 Olympics and later became a top executive at Johnny Carson’s production company. As a lawyer, he represented such other celebrities as Bill Cosby and author Irving Wallace.
Wyatt recently married Phillip Wyatt, a physicist who has a Santa Barbara company that makes scientific instruments.
The 3,500-square-foot house was 15 years old when the Wolfs bought it in 1978. They remodeled the home to reflect the local terrain through muted colors and the use of wood-planked floors. The house has an open floor plan with terraces, three bedrooms and a master suite with a study. The kitchen has a fireplace with a barbecue.
The property also has fenced pastures, oak trees, an Olympic-size dressage arena, a two-stall barn, staff quarters, a rose garden and a creek.
It’s listed with Lois Landau of Sotheby’s International Realty, Santa Barbara.
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