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...Many have borrowed against their fat cushions of equity. Some--like bettors taking chips off a blackjack table--have sold, trading down to smaller places or swapping a city apartment for a calmer, cheaper life in the country. Still others have stayed put and splurged. Lucky Erganian and her husband, now deceased, bought their Woodland Hills, Calif., home in 1982 for $260,000. Today she's in the midst of a six-figure renovation. Real estate agents daily slip flyers onto her porch boasting of the windfalls they have won for her neighbors. "The one I have now," says Erganian...
Others eyeball the neighbors more wistfully. Lottie Kovarek, 86, could sell her Chicago house for dozens of times the $10,500 she and her late husband paid in 1952. But as homes she has known for decades are being razed to build million-dollar-plus yuppie warrens, her street--once home to working-class Polish-American families--is losing its tight-knit character. But at least Kovarek owns her home. Writer Michael Glynn, 49, his wife and two kids rent an 850-sq.-ft. apartment in Santa Monica, Calif. There is barely enough space to shoehorn a tree...
...hard to remember that a house, boom or bust, remains the place where you kick off your shoes at the end of the day. Carol Connelly, 53, and husband Mike, 52, live in a 4,000-sq.-ft. house in the small central Michigan town of Gobles. The Connellys used to live in Chicago, where they sold their Lincoln Park house for $450,000--having paid $208,000--giving them enough money to buy their place in Gobles outright, leave their high-pay, high-pressure jobs and spend more time with their kids...
...most celebrated of Marabel's specialties is the suggestion of erotic costumes in which to welcome the husband home from work. "Take your bubble bath shortly before he comes home. Thrill him at your front door in your costume. A frilly new nighty and heels will probably do the trick as a starter." Marabel's readers have apparently followed these instructions to all sorts of conclusions. One woman greeted her husband in a costume of nothing but Saran Wrap bound up with a red ribbon. Another wanted to greet her husband "a la gypsy with beads, bangles and bare skin...
...more so than in the scene where she sings The Carnival is Over across a pub counter. If Peaches sees McKenzie's spiky talents settle and mature, Paul Cox's recent Human Touch, shot after Monahan's movie, sees it glow. As a young chorister estranged from her painter husband (Aaron Blabey), McKenzie makes Anna's sensual awakening both mysterious and real. But it's in her shift from arthouse to TV primetime that's most likely to cast McKenzie's talents in a new light. Shortly after filming Human Touch in late 2003, the actress flew herself...