Posted on 05/05/2014 5:07:02 PM PDT by lowbridge
Ron Howard, the Oscar-winning director, has put his family home and farm up for sale near Greenwich, Conn., for $27.5 million.
The lakefront estate is made up of 32 acres of land straddling the Connecticut and New York border. In addition to a working farm, the property includes a more than 17,200-square-foot main residence, a guesthouse, an indoor sports complex, an observatory, riding trails and woods.
Howard and his wife, Cheryl, raised their family in the classic New England-style home. Among the rooms are a two-story office/library, a 14-seat theater, six bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms. The guesthouse has two bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms.
There’s an indoor saltwater swimming pool, a gym and a yoga studio. The sports complex houses an indoor sports court and a basketball half-court
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The draft is later this year because Radio City music hall decided to schedule some musical (that I heard got postponed anyway so it was all for nothing) at the usual draft time.
The Rockettes have great legs but you can’t bump the NFL draft for them! Having the draft this late messes things up.
They should totally move around to venues that don’t have their head up their a*s.
“Having the draft this late messes things up.”
Yep. OTOH, more time to watch the NHL playoffs, which have been EPIC!
“They should totally move around to venues that don’t have their head up their a*s.”
Agreed. The NFL can share their pot of gold.
It's worth what he can get for it. That's what worth is.
A lot of the value of the property is connected to what the development possibilities are. If the local zoning board allows an owner to divide that 32 acres into four lots, then that property is certainly worth $27M.
I’m sure he’ll donate the proceeds of the sale to those less fortunate
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Yes, he could donate the property to Mayor DeBlasio to help with the equality *housing* program he’s starting.
It’s for the chiiiiilllldrens, Opie!! You wouldn’t want those less fortunate than you to have LESS than you...would ya?
What would Pa and Aint Bee think?
Precisely. The only thing the regulators, taxation authorities, etc from NY & CT could agree on was: they couldn’t agree on anything. Perhaps if they had deeper pockets, and the stomach, for the fight, they would have prevailed, but in the end, they took their lumps, and moved on, lesson learned. POSTSCRIPT: years later, the property was sold to a well heeled and ‘connected’ member of the landed gentry. He was able to deed the NY portion to Putnam County, NY, without hassle, and sold the remainder for a nice profit, when Real Estate peaked around 2005.
Night Shift
Splash
Cocoon
Backdraft
Apollo 13
The Paper
Cinderella Man
All pretty good movies, especially The Paper, very underrated.
I don’t begrudge him any of his success, but as a liberal he would probably begrudge mine (working for an eeeeevil, non-Hollywood corporation....).
He’s one of the most mediocre directors of successful movies of all time.
Apollo 13, in the hands of a good director who could cast and pace, would have jumped off the screen. Ronnie the Hack turned it into a meh TV movie.
Then there’s this one:
And also? He looooooooves to give interviews bad-mouthing Los Angeles. The city that made this mediocre hack director far more successful than he has any right to be — why, he would never live there. Just work there. And go to the Oscars.
LA townies who are grateful to work and live here are not fans of his.
These locales are no different than the locations across the fruited plain where a shortage of jobs and the losses of sustainable incomes are affecting millions of workers. A job is a job whether you're a movie director or a ditch-digger...and Tinsel Town stars are not exempt at all from the effects of recessions.
The high-priced estates of celebrities are dogs to maintain money-wise. Their upkeep require sustained high incomes on the parts of the owners. However, lower incomes....and in many cases, no guarantees of sustained incomes at all....may be eating away at the soft underbelly of the entertainment world's well-paid acting and creative community.
Which is probably why we're seeing one "mansion" after another (on both coasts) being placed on the market.
The notables are cashing out their big white elephants while the cashing is still possible.
Leni
Global warming. According to Algore, the entire city will be under water within ten years. Also, the African-American population of Greenwich (1.66%) has grown a bit too high for liberal elitist standards. Especially when compared with the Clinton's Chappaqua, NY (0.94% black), Algore's Montecito, CA (0.6% black), or Michael Moore's Forest Home Township, MI (0.16% black).
**When Gordon [owner] died last September at the age of 52, Browne’s relatives immediately looked to sell the property — and didn’t use a broker, to avoid paying commissions. “Somehow, someone got the inside track. All the brokers are crestfallen,” a source told The Post’s Jennifer Gould Keil.
I couldn't even afford the property taxes.
The commission percentage would have been negotiated on a property this valuable, but on a regular house it would be about 6%. The commission would have been several million on this one for sure.
The law journal article by Professor Brian C. Kalt (who is a FReeper, BTW) regarding the “Zone of Death” in the portions of Yellowstone located in Montana and Idaho is well worth reading. You can download it for free here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=691642
“However, lower incomes....and in many cases, no guarantees of sustained incomes at all....may be eating away at the soft underbelly of the entertainment world’s well-paid acting and creative community.”
Bingo.
Exactly
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