This Actor Is Just ‘Crazy’ Over Malibu
Oscar-winning actor Rod Steiger, who appears with Melanie Griffith in the upcoming movie “Crazy in Alabama,” has just completed a $100,000 restoration of his Malibu home, which suffered extensive rain damage last year.
The actor has lived in the three-bedroom, 4,000-square-foot house for 10 of the almost 50 years that he has made Malibu his home.
Steiger, 74, won his best actor Oscar for “In the Heat of the Night” (1967). Besides “Crazy in Alabama,” due out in October, Steiger will appear with Arnold Schwarzenegger in “End of Days” in November and Denzel Washington in “The Hurricane” in December.
Steiger stayed for a month in a hotel while the custom cedar ceilings in his house were removed and replaced, concrete pavers in the living room were restored, and all of the walls were custom painted. The veranda off the master suite also was rebuilt, with new wrought-iron fencing, redwood railings and a fabric canopy.
Jeff Gallucci of Prosure in Tarzana, a general contracting firm specializing in insurance restoration, did the work; Claudia Tschudin was the design consultant.
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Bruce Willis, who stars in the movie “The Sixth Sense,” has purchased 2 1/2 acres next to his 5-acre-plus Beverly Hills-area home for $325,000. The land sale, which occurred earlier this year but was just made public, took four years to finalize. The seller was a governmental agency.
Willis, who is separated from his wife, actress Demi Moore, bought the Beverly Hills-area home before marrying Moore in 1987. He listed the gated three-bedroom, 3,000-square-foot house for a while in 1991 at $2 million.
Willis, 44, bought the adjacent land for privacy and security. He was represented by Silva Mirzoian, who also handled the other side of the deal through Re/Max, Beverly Hills. Mirzoian now heads Beverly Hills-based Mirzo International, specializing in leases and purchases in France.
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Sam Weisman, director of “The Out-of-Towners” (1999) and “George of the Jungle” (1997), and his wife, actress Constance McCashin, have listed their Coldwater Canyon home at slightly more than $1.8 million.
McCashin, who played Laura Avery in “Knots Landing,” portrayed Mrs. Wellstone in “The Out-of-Towners.”
The East Coast natives recently bought a Massachusetts home and have been renting out their L.A.-area house, built for them in 1988 on a hillside acre near Franklin Canyon Park. The house, a blend of Craftsman and Cape Cod styles, has five bedrooms in 5,200 square feet.
Mary Brill of Fred Sands Estates, Beverly Hills, has the listing.
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