Word: brentwood
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Family Christian is just one of several churches around the country that are starting businesses in an effort to make houses of worship more inviting. In Wells, Maine, the Messiah Christian Church has opened a fitness center, with memberships selling for $300 a year. And Houston's Brentwood Baptist Church will open a McDonald's in July, part of a new lifelong-learning center located next to the church. The burger joint, complete with a drive-through window, will be jointly owned by the church and one of its members. It will be managed by the church...
...still cling to the belief that the rich and famous are just normal people with better lighting, consider the recent Everyman problems of STEVEN SPIELBERG. The director's Brentwood, Calif., neighbors have organized against him because of a planned addition to his 2,400-sq.-ft. home. Prosaic enough, except that the proposed addition is a five-story, 27,000-sq.-ft. riding-ring-and-stable complex with a retractable dome for horse-loving wife KATE CAPSHAW, estimated to cost $7 million. "It's just astounding and obnoxious," claimed an attorney for nearby homeowners. Both sides will argue the case...
...culture (God help us) - in its movies, for example. I mentioned "American Beauty," and wondered aloud whether that meretricious piece of work said anything useful about America, or whether it simply represented a stab at profundity by slightly stupid moviemakers living overprivileged lives in places like Santa Monica and Brentwood. Some of the students, who liked the movie, reacted irritably. I admitted mine was the minority judgment...
...Welcome to Gridlock 2000!" That's how Shirley MacLaine greeted the 1,000 or so guests gathered at an estate near Brentwood last Saturday to raise money for Hillary Clinton's New York Senate campaign. So long and thick was the line of cars waiting for the valet that actor Johnathon Schaech and his date abandoned their limo and hoofed it up the hill, following the lead of an MTV executive and a couple of Hillary's press representatives. The event itself began with a lot of head-turning. There's Brad and Jennifer! There's John Travolta! There...
...Before the event, there was grumbling among Democratic ranks that the Brentwood party for Hillary's campaign and a brunch 24 hours later at Barbra Streisand's house to benefit the Clinton presidential library were taking liberal Hollywood dollars away from the Al Gore presidential campaign. Indeed, the partygoers in Brentwood paid $1,000 for the concert; $25,000 for the concert and supper afterward. Was it worth it? Only if Hillary's Senate campaign was near and dear to your heart. The concert took place on the lawn, where big trees blocked donors' views. And there was some understandable...