Posted on 05/27/2005 5:49:46 AM PDT by Angry Enough
The cameras were rolling and one of Hollywood's biggest producers was watching.
And on Thursday, an excited group was auditioning for what could be this summer's hottest feature: Malibu beach-going.Coastal-access advocates set foot on the sand at Tinseltown titan David Geffen's sprawling beachfront estate, some for the first time, celebrating the opening of a 9-foot-wide public pathway to the ocean.
Creation of the walkway came after Geffen reluctantly made good on a 22-year-old legal promise to let the public onto part of Carbon Beach, a mile-long stretch of sand east of the Malibu Pier. The public will have access to the path as well as most of the beach in front of the Geffen estate.
Geffen had installed video security cameras that scanned the paved path off Pacific Coast Highway and every inch of beachfront in front of his house. The cameras were watching for "trespassers" stepping out of the public right of way and onto his private sand.
Several times during the Thursday visit, a security guard came out to order visitors off Geffen's property. Once, a guard demanded that a beach umbrella leaning several inches over the imaginary boundary line be moved.
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Liberal=hypocrite.
the Hollywood limousine LIBERALS arent so LIBERAL when it comes to THEIR stuff! lol
LOL!
Perfect excuse for a liberal.
LOL - Yeah, and the fight was over private property, which makes me laugh (danged socialists) and furthermore, the property wasn't even really his, it is public property. Talk about hypocrisy! Trying to keep the great unwashed away from his stuff....
Creation of the walkway came after Geffen reluctantly made good on a 22-year-old legal promise to let the public onto part of Carbon Beach, a mile-long stretch of sand east of the Malibu Pier. The public will have access to the path as well as most of the beach in front of the Geffen estate.
Geffen had installed video security cameras that scanned the paved path off Pacific Coast Highway and every inch of beachfront in front of his house. The cameras were watching for "trespassers" stepping out of the public right of way and onto his private sand.
Several times during the Thursday visit, a security guard came out to order visitors off Geffen's property. Once, a guard demanded that a beach umbrella leaning several inches over the imaginary boundary line be moved.
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