A rare and exciting opportunity has hit the market that heretofore we could only dream about and we did . . . for months! Every year, HGTV creates a stunning home in an equally stunning location crafted by their masterful designers that they give away in their Dream Home Sweepstakes to a lucky winner. In 2011, it was a spectacular Stowe, Vermont ski home. Certainly one of the best HGTV home prize winners ever. When Eric and Catherine Makstenieks of Hinsdale, Illinois ......more
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Historically known as the “W.C. Fields estate,” this legendary Mediterranean retreat is located in the lushly landscaped and very private Hollywood enclave of Laughlin Park. Laughlin Park is a secluded gated community as much favored by early film stars and other movie industry moguls as it is today. Across the street are the lavish estates of Cecil B. DeMille and Charlie Chaplain. W. C. Fields was the house’s most illustrious tenant, although it ha......more
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Like so many celebrated actors and notable TV stars, Kelly Ripa got her first serious professional part as character Hayley Vaughan on the soap opera All My Children. She appeared in 1990 and stayed in the part until 2002. We remember how she was first seen disguised as as a waif of a boy, for what reason we have long forgotten. But to endure and succeed as she has from soap opera to sitcom, to two films, to Live! with Regis and Kelly, to Live! with Kelly and now to Li......more
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Even people who hate sports probably know of “Neon” Deion Sanders. Although he is best known as a professional star in both football and baseball (first person to hit a MLB home run and score an NFL touchdown in the same week, and the only person to play in an MLB and NFL game on the same day), Deion has also been a rap singer, frequent TV talk show guest and Saturday Night Live host, had his own reality TV show, and was even the emcee for the 2002 Miss USA p......more
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Remember the hard rock band, Slaughter? Remember their debut album, Stick it to Ya? We look at this piece of real estate a bank got stuck with and we can’t help but wonder if that is what the bank might be thinking these days. After they got stuck retrieving an $18 million loan for $3.1 million. So looking at this 30,000 square foot Moorish, Mosqueish manse, just what were they thinking? It goes to prove the point that a few years ago banks were financing anything......more
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It’s not surprising that The Mary Tyler Moore Show was such a joy to those old enough to watch it every week. It aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977 and has been regarded as "one of the most acclaimed television programs ever produced." The program was a forerunner for bringing many heretofore repressed social issues into the limelight in an easy to digest comedic script. Mary played the lead as Mary Richards, a 30-year-old single woman whose top priority was not gettin......more
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The 19th Century had inner city transport problems, which at the time could only be solved by horses. Today when we think back, our imaginations lock on to thoughts of romantic carriage rides through Central Park and how wonderful it must have been when it was the only means of transportation. In the 1800s, horses were ridden to and from work, for errands, for police patrol, delivery wagons, peddlers’ carts, fire engines, ambulances, omnibuses, cabs and private ca......more
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A favorite subject of television programs that spotlight unusually outstanding properties, the Villa de Madre estate and vineyard has been featured on both HGTV’s Million Dollar Rooms series and the Behind the Gates TV show. Built on almost 80 acres with 63 acres of vineyards in the wine country of Suisun Valley, California near Napa, the property consists of the 22,882 square foot main house, a 2,896 square foot caretaker’s house and three magnificent car......more
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The Lake Tahoe area has been a popular backdrop for many television and movie productions. The Ponderosa Ranch home for the NBC-TV Cartwright family in Bonanza was filmed on the Nevada side of the lake. Henry J. Kaiser's Fleur du Lac summer place on the California side was the Michael Corleone family compound in The Godfather Part II and whereFredo Corleone took his ill-fated fishing trip. Most of the Godfather estate has been torn down and replaced by million-dollar hom......more
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Only a few miles inland from beautiful Venice beach on the Gulf Coast of Florida, the 100-acre Devita Ranch and thoroughbred training facility will be auctioned on January 31st. Built in 2003, it’s the property that has everything for pleasure, entertaining, sport and business opportunity. Beyond the entry gates is a long paved drive lined with Spanish Oaks giving glimpses of acres of pasture past the equine fencing. Main buildings consist of the main residence, a......more
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