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...upsurge reflected increasing voter outrage over constantly rising property taxes, which climbed 48% to 120% in 1976 alone. "Let the politicians sweat to get their money from somewhere else," says Hal Rolfe, a Los Angeles real estate agent whose own taxes rose from $900 to $2,017 on his Topanga Canyon home and from $540 to $1,913 on his nearby office. A divorced housewife in Van Nuys, Phyllis Waldman, now pays $ 1,568 rather than $750; the home she purchased nine years ago for $32,000 was revalued last July at $ 100,000. A retired engineer in Sacramento...
...Some of the other things include keeping an orderly house up in Los Angeles' Topanga Canyon with her husband, Art Director Jack Fisk. She and Fisk first met when they both worked on Badlands. "We were getting along so well," Spacek remembers, "I thought it couldn't last. He was the first guy I ever really relaxed around." The marriage has flourished, despite some rather odd exigencies. During Carrie, Art Director Fisk had to seal his wife in a coffin-shaped box and bury her under several layers of rock...
most rock women lead relatively modest lives. Wendy Waldman, 24, who began her career singing Proud Mary in a nude bowling alley, lives in a stone cottage in Los Angeles' rural Topanga Canyon. The songs she writes deal mostly with wandering and the road, probably because her house is so small that there is barely room for her piano, dulcimer and guitar...
Once the undraped star of underground films (Blue Movie, Lonesome Cowboys), Andy Warhol Protégée Viva is settling into tamer things these days. In her Topanga Canyon house in California, the slender, wide-eyed author of Superstar, a total-immersion confessional novel, is now completing a new book, The Baby, about her three-year-old daughter Alexandra. "She may be the most documented child in history," observes Viva, whose husband, French Film Maker Michel Auder, is engaged in a ten-year project to video-tape their daughter's early years. "I never did know what...
...fastened to a wall, a built-in double bed that lifts up to reveal storage areas underneath, or easily inflatable air mattresses topped with sleeping bags. Walls are decorated according to individual fancy: John Vajda, 19, and Tony Stepic, 20, are currently parked on a Pacific beach near Topanga Canyon in a 1953 Ford van with a red, white and blue interior and a kitchen cupboard done in stars and stripes...