Word: brentwood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SWAT team scrambled and moved out to O.J.'s Brentwood mansion in unmarked cars. They split into a sniper team with scopes, a negotiating team and a larger backup team that fanned out through the bushes and trees around the property, armed with stun grenades and automatic rifles. When Cowling drove up into the driveway, they could see O.J. in the backseat, holding a blue steel revolver pointed up against his own chin...
Brooks has plenty to sing about. His wife Holly, their three young children and their Brentwood home were relatively unscathed by last Monday's earthquake. His Anything ordeal is over. His new cartoon series The Critic -- created by Simpsons swamis Al Jean and Mike Reiss -- premieres on ABC this week, preceded by reviewers' raves. The show, with its post-Woody Allenish wit and deft movie parodies, looks like a winner...
...touch with the Hollywood hurly-burly he abandoned 13 months ago. Tartikoff plans to keep his New Orleans base but expects to spend about 10 days a month in Los Angeles. Except for occasional visits to his old Saturday-morning softball game at a high school field in Brentwood, his L.A. sojourns are practically all work. "I have triple breakfasts and 18-hour days," he says. "What I've learned is that if you're organized enough and you're compulsive enough, you can make your 10 days count for 25 days of a normal person." Tartikoff at double speed...
Richard Riordan has never met Ross Perot. His New York-edged voice sounds nothing like a Texas drawl. And where he resides, among the mansions of Brentwood, they think "clean out the barn" must be a line from a Beverly Hillbillies rerun. Still, when a deft Los Angeles Times cartoonist drew him with jug ears and labeled him "H. Ross Riordan," the subject of the caricature recalls with a smile, he was not only amused but flattered: "I felt I'd arrived...
...updraft of rumor. This time the gangs would not be content to bounce the rubble in their own neighborhoods but would descend instead on the suburbs. On a radio call-in show, a young gang member said he plans to raid the "three Bs," meaning the rich domains of Brentwood, Bel-Air and Beverly Hills. One rumor had it that thugs planned to disguise themselves with stolen police uniforms...