Listen candy corns, it's Halloween, we're hopped up on the candy and we just ain't got that much for you today, so this one is short and sweet. Boo!
1.
Iffin Your Mama is being truthful–and we always are–we'd snitch on ourselves that we can't name from memory one single film starring Val
Kilmer. We can't, '
tis true. A quick consult with the
Internet Movie Data Base and we realize we've never even heard of anything Mister
Kilmer has done since 2004 when he made a guest appearance on
Entourage. Okay, we've
heard of
Knight Rider but thought it was a tee-
vee show from the early 1980s with that nails-on-the-chalkboard David
Hasselhoff. Besides, he wasn't really even on
Knight Rider he was the voice of the car, K.I.T.T. Ugh
That said, in 2010 and 2011 alone, Mister
Kilmer's got 15 (or so) projects in the hopper, in post-production, or in the planning stages, which means the moon-faced thespian and former
hottie has been pretty damn
bizzy lately.
The man has also been
bizzy trying to unload his
5,328+ acre ranch outside of Santa Fe in Rowe, NM. He first listed the stunningly beautiful property a long time ago for $33,000,000 but recently lowered the price by $10,000,000, a somewhat shocking and desperate seeming amount. But then again, maybe the property was
stoopidly priced at thirty three million.
There are, according to
listing information, 6 miles of Pecos River frontage, 10 natural springs, 50 miles of hiking and riding trails and an Santa Fe adobe style main mansion filled with a lot of Native American artifacts that sprawls across 11,573 square feet and includes 7 bedrooms, 9 full and 2 half
poopers.
Although we're not sure–which means don't take this to the bank–we think Mister
Kilmer bunks down in
Malee-boo when he's on the west coast.
2.
Noted New York City
gallerist Jeffrey
Deitch opened the Lower Manhattan
Deitch Projects in 1996 with a show by
Vanessa Beecroft and over the years presented the work of a whole
lotta art making young guns like
Cecily Brown,
Ryan McGinness and
Inka Essenhigh.
In early 2010 it was announced that Mister
Deitch was to take up the reins of the top spot at the Museum of Contemporary Art (
MOCA) in Los Angeles. His appointment has been, to put it mildly, controversial. Some say Mister
Deitch has blazed a new and exciting path through the contemporary art world scene and breathed new life into a near moribund institution in part by erasing the lines between art and celebrity. Others will hiss that they hear the death knell of art ringing loudly in their ears when his name is mentioned in connection to the museum.
Whatever the case, Mister
Deitch needed a place to live in Los Angeles and landed at the far western edge of the star studded Los
Feliz neighborhood, just a quick hop from downtown where
MOCA is situated. Mister
Deitch recently gave
Nowness a personal video tour of his nearly unfurnished but art filled house that happens to be just a few doors down from Brad Pitt's ever-expanding compound. It also happens to be where Cary Grant lived with his on-again/off-again
man-friend Randolph Scott,
Property records show the house measures a sizable 6,727 square feet with 5 bedrooms and 4
poopers. Records also show the property was last purchased in 2006 for $3,200,000, which indicates that Mister
Deitch leases the property. Besides Brad Pitt, Mister
Deitch's nearby neighbors include tee-
vee producer Keith
Addis, Kevin Spacey, choreographer Adam
Shankman, Christina
Ricci, Mandy Moore, and screenwriter Mitch
Glazer and his wife actress Kelly Lynch who live in the speck-
tacular John
Lautner designed Harvey Aluminum House.
Mister
Deitch's house is a bee-
yoot and has a "party room" that he's commissioned artist
Richard Woods to outfit his "party room" like a "super Tudor-pop" environment where already got Tim Noble and Sue Webster's glitzy
Golden Showers piece hanging. We're all goose-pimpled in anticipation of our invitation to the house warming once that Richard Woods room gets installed.
3.
Producer Robert Evans is a living legend around Tinseltown and like all good Hollywood legends, Mister Evans owns a legendary Jon Woolf designed Hollywood Regency style house in Beverly Hills, CA called
Woodland.
Seven times married Mister Evans–who produced motion picture history like
Rosemary's Baby, The Godfather, Harold and Maude, and
Chinatown–hosted and entertained everybody who was anybody in Hollywood, not to mention and a whole lot of nobodies who wanted to be somebody. Henry Kissinger played tennis at
Woodlawn, Robert Shapiro celebrated his 50
th birthday there and Mister Evans did the
bownchickabowbowm with a near endless list of Tinseltown beauties.
The New York Times recently
sent a photographer into Woodland to capture some of it's beauty and myth. It's old-school, for sure, but it's magnificent and like Mister Evans, one of the last of its kind. Enjoy. We did.
