When Adam Brody became the internet’s boyfriend a few months back, people started acting weird around Leighton Meester. Of course, long before audiences became obsessed with Brody’s turn as a hot rabbi in “Nobody Wants This,” both he and Meester were cemented in the pop culture firmament as teen drama icons. She was “Gossip Girl’s” … Read more
On the morning of the Palisades fire, Claudia Gordon quickly accepted that there was only so much she could do to save everything under her watch. She helps manage the Pacific Palisades homes once owned by Thomas Mann and Lion Feuchtwanger, bestselling German writers who moved to Los Angeles in the 1940s as part of … Read more
Good homes have good souls, just as beloved movies do. Rick Carter knows both. On Jan. 7, the renowned production designer — for “Jurassic Park,” “Avatar” and more — had just settled in for the night with half an Ambien and his wife, Adele, when a concerned friend called their Paris hotel. A raging wildfire … Read more
