Rob Lowe gets OK for massive dream estate
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Rob Lowe narrowly won approval from planners for a massive dream estate on his &#36;8.5 million Montecito lot despite a neighbor&#039;s complaint the mansion would spoil his panoramic ocean view.
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Actor James Van Der Beek wins his legal action against a real estate agent. Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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ANDRE Stolz took the giant step from struggling rookie to season millionaire with a future secured by a two-year exemption when he won the US PGA Tour&#39;s Michelin Championship in Las Vegas yesterday.
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Actress Sandra Bullock is awarded $7m after her dream home turned into an expensive nightmare. Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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The heirs of murdered Italian designer  Gianni Versace are hoping to raise as much as $17 million from  the sale of art by the likes of Roy Lichtenstein from his New  York home, Sotheby's said on Thursday.
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Boston Red Sox postseason hero Derek Lowe appears Sunday to be on the verge of joining the Los Angeles Dodgers rotation.
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Singer-actress Barbra Streisand is busy constructing her house in California but plans to make one major movie after work on her home is complete, says her husband James Brolin.
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Business & money: Astonishment at huge reward for Countrywide boss who is told to go away and 'have fun'
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Jeff Wynne looked at more than 30 houses before he finally purchased his Colonial in Chevy Chase.
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The former home of Pink Floyd founder  Syd Barrett, who died in July, has attracted huge interest from  potential buyers undeterred by the reclusive singer's patchy  home improvement efforts.
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TV talk-show host Conan O'Brien has  bought a Los Angeles home valued at just under $10.5 million in  preparation for his move from New York to take over the reins  of NBC's "The Tonight Show," the Los Angeles Times reported on  Saturday.
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By Blair Anthony Robertson, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 22--When Mark and Janet Thew bought their lot in Loomis in 1999 and built their Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired house the following year, they thought they were putting down roots in a rural paradise.
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The Evergreen star had a big NY party for his autobiography.
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By Mark Ferenchik, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 13--Steve Rainey clearly wasn't happy that his plan for luxury homes was the test case for the new panel reviewing developments near Big Darby Creek.
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Actor Rob Lowe, who portrays a member of Congress on television, appeared before lawmakers Thursday and promoted tax credits for people who add a plug-in feature to hybrid cars and trucks.
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Marion "Suge" Knight's seven-bedroom, 9 1/2-bath home has been placed on the market for $6.2 million, part of the rap music mogul's financial overhaul under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Michael Govan, the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, said late Monday that he believed Eli Broadâs decision to keep his art collection in a private foundation that makes loans to museums is a positive development because it means none of the artworks will be sold, an act that would limit access to them by the Los Angeles museum and others. The museum will open the $56 million Broad Contemporary Art Museum next month, and it has long been speculated that Mr. Broad would donate his collection at least in part to the museum. But Mr. Broad said he had recently decided to keep his collection in his foundation because no museum, the Los Angeles one included, could commit to exhibiting a significant portion of it permanently. Asked if he viewed Mr. Broadâs decision as demonstrating a lack of confidence in him or the museum, Mr. Govan said: âQuite the reverse. Since Day 1 heâs privately and publicly given me a lot of support.â Mr. Govan said that âfrom the public perspective, I donât think most people care when they walk in the door whether the museum owns the works or not, as long as they donât lose themâ to private sales. And, he added, âheâs got 2,000 works, so there is plenty to go around.â.