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...Museum, a.k.a. the Getty Center, sheathed in light tan aluminum and elegantly rugged honey-colored Italian travertine, nearly 1 million sq. ft. of it at roughly $1,000 per sq. ft., designed by Richard Meier and perched on a 710-acre hilltop above the San Diego Freeway in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. The Getty is the most expensive arts complex and by some calculations the most expensive building in American history. Large expectations ride on it as both a cultural institution and an emblematic focus for Los Angeles itself. Meanwhile, Frank Gehry's $100 million Guggenheim Museum...
...conditional-use permit from the city of Los Angeles. This entailed dealing with scores of regulations; no excavated earth, for instance, could be moved off the site. It also meant interminable meetings, sometimes verging on the rancorous, with associations of homeowners in the surrounding areas of Bel Air and Brentwood...
...sure about those murders in Brentwood, but PAULA BARBIERI thinks O.J. Simpson is guilty of one thing--being a very bad boyfriend. Not that Barbieri's choice in menfolk is all that shrewd. In her new book, The Other Woman, she reveals that on the night of the murders she was on a date in Las Vegas with Michael Bolton. She had previously lived with Dolph Lundgren and hung out with Roman Polanski and George Hamilton. Barbieri, who says her support of Simpson during the criminal trial led to the loss of all her money, her career and her apartment...
...other night, a New York resident named Jean Vallely, who had just returned from California, told me that her windshield had been streaked up by a squeegee guy on San Vicente Boulevard in Brentwood, Calif.--the first confirmed squeegee-guy sighting I've heard of since this whole thing started. It raises the possibility that the squeegee guys, having heard of the O.J. case, are moving out to Brentwood on the theory that a jurisdiction that lets someone get away with murder couldn't be hard on people who wash windshields with filthy rags...
...BRENTWOOD, California: SOLD: O.J. Simpson's 6,200-sqr. ft. estate on Rockingham road, for $2.63 million, to the bank that had foreclosed on it. Hawthorne Savings will probably resell the home for a profit. Area real estate experts said the bank made out like a bandit, since the selling price was at least half a million dollars below market value. The estate featured great light, lots of closets, a guest house, and an enormous yard -- perfect for practicing your chip shots...