His Next Role Is Hills-Area Seller
James Woods, who will star in the Showtime movie “Dirty Pictures,” has put his Beverly Hills-area home on the market at $8.75 million.
“Dirty Pictures,” about the Cincinnati museum director who went on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe, is due to air in May.
Woods also co-stars in the upcoming Oliver Stone movie “Any Given Sunday,” a drama about professional football, and he co-starred with John Travolta in the movie “The General’s Daughter,” released in June.
The Emmy-winning Woods, 52, earned an Oscar nomination for his role as the killer of Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers in Rob Reiner’s “Ghosts of Mississippi” (1997). He also was nominated for an Oscar as a photojournalist in Stone’s 1986 movie “Salvador.”
A stage as well as a film actor, Woods went from being a student at MIT and acting in summer theater at Harvard to appearing on Broadway.
He is selling his house because he is spending at least half of his time on the East Coast and doesn’t want the Beverly Hills-area home to go unused.
The home was owned by violinist Jascha Heifetz before Woods bought it about eight years ago. Woods then spent several years having the house redesigned and reconstructed. The house was taken down to its foundation. Woods moved in only about two years ago.
The 6,000-square-foot house has two bedrooms, a media room, library and gym. There is a gazebo by the pool. The home is on an acre with city views.
Stephen Shapiro of Westside Estate Agency, Beverly Hills, has the listing.
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Actor Michael Ontkean, who is probably best known as Sheriff Harry S Truman in David Lynch’s TV series “Twin Peaks,” has put one of his two Malibu homes on the market at just under $1.9 million. He plans to maintain his other Malibu home. Both are on Point Dume.
Ontkean, 49, just returned from Australia, where he filmed the movie “Green Sails,” about Greenpeace, due out in the spring. He starred in the Disney Studio film “Summer of the Monkeys,” released last spring.
Among his many TV and movie roles are a hockey player who skates an impromptu striptease in “Slap Shot” (1977) starring Paul Newman, and an accused murderer in the frequently aired TV movie “In a Child’s Name” (1991).
On his return from filming in Australia, Ontkean bought a 9.5-acre vacation property, with a Hawaiian plantation-style home, on the North Shore of Kauai.
The Malibu house that he is selling has four bedrooms and a music and media room in 5,500 square feet. The home also has gardens and a 66-foot-long pool. He has owned the home for 14 years.
Susan Monus at Coldwell Banker Previews, Malibu, has the listing.
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E.G. Daily, the actress-singer-songwriter who does the voice of Tommy Pickles in Nickelodeon’s Emmy-winning animated series “Rugrats” and did the voice of Babe in the live-action movie “Babe: Pig in the City” (1998), has purchased a Hollywood Hills house for just under $1.2 million.
Daily, in her early 30s, also provided the voice of Froggie in “The Little Rascals” (1994). Besides her voice-over work, she appeared in an episode of NBC’s “Friends” as Phoebe’s songwriter partner, and she co-wrote and co-produced the albums “Wild Child,” “Lace Around the Wound” and “Tearing Down the Walls.” Among Daily’s hit songs is “Say It, Say It.”
She bought a house with five bedrooms plus maid’s quarters in about 5,000 square feet. The house has a pool, spa and city views. It also has polished concrete floors and skylights.
The sellers, who are in the diamond business, are building an estate in the Coldwater Canyon area.
Raquel Kaufman of Avant Garde Properties and Rick Chimienti of DBL, Beverly Hills, had the listing, and Gina Salerno of Re/Max Westside Properties represented Daily in her purchase.
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A two-bedroom condo in Brentwood has come on the market at $345,000, and the price includes a full-sized Cessna in the living room.
“It is quite a conversation piece,” said Lauren Weiss, daughter of Arnie Weiss, who helped to reassemble the 21-foot-long airplane in his trilevel condo about 11 years ago.
“The condo has a very high ceiling, so the plane [which is suspended between a loft and the living room] doesn’t take away from the living space,” his daughter said.
Her father, a retired elementary schoolteacher who now lives in San Diego, views the airplane as a piece of art. The plane, which is white with red trim, has no engine, but its propeller rotates like a fan, and it has tiny workable lights.
“He always wanted a plane, and he had all that space in his condo,” said his daughter, a Pasadena publicist. “He was a kid at heart. He’d say, ‘Just because I don’t fly doesn’t mean I can’t have an airplane.’ ”
And so, Arnie Weiss looked for a plane with fabric wings that he could cut down, for installation purposes, and he found it after he joined a Cessna-140 club. Five years after the plane was reconstructed, he got his pilot’s license.
Four years ago, the teacher, now 65, relocated and rented out the 1,400-square-foot condo, which also has three baths, two lofts, two wood-burning fireplaces and city views.
Joseph Killinger and George Pino of Fred Sands’ Brentwood office have the listing. The condo is open today from 2 to 5 p.m. at 980 S. Granville.
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A Beverly Hills home built by actor Lionel Barrymore and later a residence of actress Marilyn Monroe has been listed at just under $2 million.
Built in 1926, the Mediterranean-style house has four bedrooms in 4,500 square feet. Its park-like grounds have a funicular that goes from the pool to the street. There is a spa in the master bath.
The home also has a media room, guest house overlooking the pool, step-down living room with Art Deco detailing and canyon-to-ocean views.
Barbara Tenenbaum and Lea Porter of Fred Sands Estates, Beverly Hills, have the listing.
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