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...badly betrayed by a sandy bed called Dry Creek that a survivor named Rose Marie Simmons could only gasp, "It's real sad, real sad, looking at the place where you've been living, gone." Homes became islands in the sunny coastal necklace of glamorous enclaves like Malibu, which was cut off by the closure of the Pacific Coast Highway and canyon passes packed with mud. Santa Barbara's mission-style historical district was a waist-deep gumbo of guck. Dramatic rescues were everywhere on television as heroes dangled from helicopters, plucking the stranded from the water's path. Authorities...
...Before, something would happen and people around here would start to get nervous," said Malibu stockbroker David Mizrahi, setting off on foot across a bridge closed to car traffic because of cracks. (If this had been a movie, the sound track would swell about now with the scraping of mud shovels and the rush of tributaries newly sprung to life.) "This time, after going through the quakes and the fires and the other floods, everyone just threw up their hands and said let it happen, we'll deal with the consequences later...
...find Foster on street corners or in clubs looking for new talent. He spends most of his time in studios or at home, in hopes that devotion to work will not wreck his third marriage as it did his first two. A garden-ringed house near the beach in Malibu, California, is home base for Foster and current wife Linda Thompson, and his four daughters and her two sons from earlier marriages. Thompson's is a fascinating story in its own right: a songwriter (she wrote Houston's I Have Nothing with Foster) and actress (15 years on the country...
...foundation has distributed $7.7 million to support a variety of liberal causes. Along with The Normal Heart (subject: AIDS), Streisand is also producing a TV movie about Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, who was booted out of the military for being a lesbian (Glenn Close will star). She donated her Malibu ranch to an environmental conservancy and put up for auction millions of dollars' worth of art and furnishings that she had collected since the '60s. "I don't want to spend so much time being preoccupied with objects," she wrote in the Christie's catalog that offered the items...
...make no mistake about it--the City of Roses can hold its own against the City of Angels, and Malibu and Mammoth both. Pasadena is more than a parade route--it's a Southern California hangout that somehow manages to be at once hip and historic...