Word: xanadu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Descent from Xanadu, Robbins...
...fantasy that might tax the average adult imagination. Jackson lives at home in Encino, Calif., with his mother, father and two youngest sisters. He supervised the recent redesigning of the sprawling Tudor house, and the result is a cross between a vest-pocket Disneyland and Citizen Kane's Xanadu in suburbia (see following story). The menagerie, the soda fountain, the screening room are dream toys of childhood and the diversions of Southern California show-business affluence, all awash in the pastels of perennial boyhood. He takes trips to the Disney parks as to a shrine. He has spoken often about...
...Florida and Texas, expensive vessels seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration clutter waterways and marinas, accumulating barnacles. Along the Cape Fear River in North Carolina, a drug dealer's former Xanadu called Castle Hayne, complete with swimming pool and 22-horse stables, sits uninhabited. In the DEA'S Los Angeles office, a huge, garish oil painting decorates the squad room. "We don't know where to put the thing," an agent says of the confiscated treasure. "It won't fit in the vault...
...commutes to his family home in Long Beach. During the week he stays in a Sacramento apartment, eating frozen dinners and pizzas many nights. (He was prevented from moving into the lavish Governor's mansion built by Reagan when the Democrats voted not to provide funds for the Xanadu...
...love John Travolta in Moment by Moment? Did you swoon for Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu? Then you are a true connoisseur of incompetence, and you won't want to miss Two of a Kind. Five years ago, these two appealing stars teamed for the monster hit Grease. Now Writer-Director John Herzfeld has chosen a different 1978 hit to emulate and trash: Heaven Can Wait. God (the voice of Gene Hackman) sends a quartet of angels (led by Charles Durning) to earth to help a couple of mean-mouthed losers (guess who?). Nothing works: not the whimsy...