One True Thing: A Home in the Hills
Actress Renee Zellweger, who co-stars with Jim Carrey in the upcoming movie “Me, Myself and Irene,” has purchased a Hollywood Hills house for about $1.8 million.
Zellweger and Carrey have been dating since they met while filming the comedy, due out June 23.
The actress, 30, is probably best remembered for her role as a single mother romanced by a sports agent played by Tom Cruise in the movie “Jerry Maguire” (1996).
She also co-starred with Chris O’Donnell in “The Bachelor” (1999), and she co-starred with Meryl Streep and William Hurt in “One True Thing” (1998).
Zellweger recently signed to play Bridget Jones in the film adaptation of Helen Fielding’s popular novel “Bridget Jones’ Diary,” about a young single woman in London.
Built in the 1960s, Zellweger’s new home has three bedrooms in about 3,000 square feet. The house, which is on nearly an acre, also has a pool.
Jeeb Naiman-O’Reilly of Nelson Shelton, Beverly Hills, represented Zellweger in her purchase, and Neal Baddin of Coldwell Banker, Sunset Strip, had the listing, sources said.
The longtime Malibu Colony home of the late Ivan Goff, co-creator of the 1970s TV series “Charlie’s Angels,” has been listed at about $3.5 million.
Goff, who died in September at 89, and his writing partner, the late Ben Roberts, wrote 25 feature films. Among them: “White Heat” (1949) and “Man of a Thousand Faces” (1957), both starring James Cagney. Gregory Peck, Clark Gable and Doris Day were among the stars of their other movies.
Goff was a newspaperman in his native Australia before he stowed away on a ship en route to the U.S., rode the rails across America and talked his way into a job in the 1930s as a Hollywood correspondent for the London Daily Mirror.
He met Roberts during World War II when both were serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. After their movie-writing days, they turned to TV in the ‘60s and wrote the series “The Rogues,” starring Dick Powell, David Niven and Charles Boyer. In 1976, they wrote the pilot for “Charlie’s Angels.”
Goff purchased his Malibu home in 1971. Built in 1930, the 2,000-square-foot house has four bedrooms plus a guest apartment. A beachside patio leads to a large oceanfront sun deck.
Ann Fulton at Fred Sands Estates, Malibu, has the listing.
Tony Christopher, CEO and president of Landmark Entertainment, and his wife, Lydia, have purchased a Georgian Colonial-style house in La Canada Flintridge for its $1.9-million asking price.
Landmark Entertainment, formed in 1980 by Tony Christopher and Gary Goddard, is a developer of theme park attractions and a producer of live entertainment productions, TV shows and movies, including the sci-fi film “Masters of the Universe” (1987), directed by Goddard.
Among the many attractions that Landmark has designed are Jurassic Park: the Ride, the E.T. Adventure and Jaws: the Ride, all at MCA/Universal Studios, and Star Trek: the Experience, at Paramount Parks-the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas.
Landmark also is creating design concepts for retail centers, restaurants, casinos and hotels, including the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.
The house that the Christophers bought was built in 1935 and has 5,000 square feet plus a guest house and a pool. The sellers were an attorney and his wife.
Boyd S. Smith and Maggie W. Navarro of Coldwell Banker, Podley, Caughey & Doan in Pasadena represented both sides of the transaction.
Entertainment attorney Bruce Thabit has listed his home on Carbon Beach in Malibu at $17 million.
He completed construction on the home about two years ago.
Known as the “Shell House,” the 13,000-square-foot estate has a main residence with three bedrooms and seven self-contained villa suites, each with a spa, fireplace and kitchen. The suites have such themes as “Tropical Garden,” “Versailles,” “African Queen” and “Manhattan Deco.”
The ocean-view property also has a boardroom, a five-car garage and a courtyard accommodating six cars.
Adrian Grant and Sheila Dick of Prudential-John Aaroe & Associates, Beverly Hills, have the listing.
A Beverly Hills-area villa, built in 1927 and owned in the ‘70s by pop singer Frankie Valli, has been sold by Olga Goodman, owner of the Encino day spa Gallerie Salon, and Jack Goodman, a former owner of Dixon Cadillac in Hollywood.
The 3,400-square-foot villa, which sold for about $925,000, had been owned by the Goodmans for 27 years. They are moving to be closer to her spa.
Joyce Rey and Cecelia Waeschle of Coldwell Banker Previews, Beverly Hills, had the listing.
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