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CITY OF TOMORROW will be built on West Los Angeles lot of 20th Century-Fox, which will shift some of its moviemaking operations to its Malibu property. On 180 acres of its 284-acre lot, company plans to develop a shopping and residential hub, with office buildings, shops, luxury apartments...
...other supposedly intelligent (although the difference is hard to tell), who get involved with two moth-eaten California Cleopatras. One of them is Billie, who talks exclusively in Southern-fried cliches; the other is Eva, statuesque, free, pagan, and therefore known as "The Greek." The story rambles from a Malibu motel to Acapulco; the characters whinny in bed, cry "Man, it's great!" and engage in minor unimaginative forms of sadism. It is just possible that Author Morris is kidding, but neither the lechers nor the beauty-shop matrons to whom the book is addressed may notice...
...success than Patience and Prudence themselves. ("People say that our names are obviously contrived, but that's what Mamma named us.") The girls never had a singing lesson; their voices are rather shaky, and even Daddy never gave them a second listen until one day, driving back from Malibu, he decided that the crooning girls were making "a good sound." Says Patience, who does the talking for the pair: "It's all a great big accident." Says their father: "It just came out of left field. It sort of sneaked in the side door." Trying to describe...
...everything from restaurant food to taxi fares. But he freely pays thousands for such hobbies as his private art museum (Rubens, Titian, Gainsborough, and perhaps the best U.S. collection of Louis XV and XVI furniture) and the zoo (four buffalo, two bears, an Abyssinian mountain goat), adjoining the Malibu home he has not visited in five years...
...residents who escaped the fire will face a new kind of worry: the burned-off watershed has left nothing to absorb the inevitable heavy winter rains. As certain as there are wild winds in Malibu, there will soon be floods...