December 5, 2008
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Hot Property: Luc Robitaille sells Westwood home for $3.4 million
Luc Robitaille has performed the real-estate equivalent of a hat trick -- this time scoring a buyer for his Westwood house in just one day. The retired hockey star and his record-producer and singer wife, Stacia, fetched $3.4 million for their traditional-style home, not far off their $3.5-million asking price.
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L.A. Auto Show's Andrew Fuzesi buys Westwood-area home for $2,401,000
Perhaps the key to true happiness is fast cars and fast sales? Andrew Fuzesi, general manager of the Los Angeles Auto Show, is the new owner of a Westwood-area home that was on the market for a mere 10 days and sold for above its listing price.
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Mark Wahlberg's Beverly Hills house already has an offer
If you see actor Mark Wahlberg around town sporting a broad grin, here's the likely reason why: He already had a nibble in the form of an offer of almost $14 million on his Beverly Hills home, listed in October at $15.9 million.
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Mark Wahlberg's Beverly Hills house already has an offer
If you see actor Mark Wahlberg around town sporting a broad grin, here's the likely reason why: He already had a nibble in the form of an offer of almost $14 million on his Beverly Hills home, listed in October at $15.9 million.
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Ryan Murphy drops price of Hollywood Hills home to $3.7 million
In the hope of selling his Hollywood Hills home, "Nip/Tuck" producer-director-writer Ryan Murphy is doing a little price nipping and tucking.
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Olivia Newton-John pulls Malibu house off the market
After her Malibu house sat for sale for almost a year -- 354 days, but who's counting? -- Olivia Newton-John withdrew it from the market last week.
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Marion 'Suge' Knight's Malibu home sold for $4.56 million
The Malibu house of hip-hop mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was sold Nov. 21 in bankruptcy court for $4.56 million, according to Eric Israel, the attorney representing the Chapter 11 trustee for Knight. The 8,272-square-foot house on one of Malibu's tonier streets had been listed for sale by Knight last year at $6.2 million. The property was sold "as is."
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Leonardo DiCaprio lists one of his Malibu properties for sale at $8,999,000
Leonardo DiCaprio, who in a sort of passing of the teen-idol baton sat courtside next to "High School Musical" star Zac Efron at a Lakers game last weekend, has listed one of his Malibu properties for sale at $8,999,000. What's next? Will the mini-me Efron buy the house of the man whose career he says he wants to emulate? Unlikely, but heck, they were even photographed folding their hands the same way.
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Johnny Knoxville sells Hollywood Hills home for $1.816 million
"Jackass" star Johnny Knoxville sold his Hollywood Hills home for $1.816 million at the end of September. It had been listed at $1,695,000 about two months earlier.
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Talk radio's John Kobylt lists Beverly Hills home at $2,695,000
At the crux of what KFI -- 640 on your AM radio dial -- calls "more stimulating talk radio" is the controversial "The John and Ken Show."
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Jennifer Lopez's Bel-Air home for sale for $8.5 million
Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez has listed her French farmhouse estate in Bel-Air at $8.5 million. Speculation is that J-Lo and her husband, singer Marc Anthony, have relocated with their 9-month-old fraternal twins to the Long Island community of Brookville in New York. And she thought the 405 was bad?
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Leonardo DiCaprio lists Malibu home at $8,999,000
Leonardo DiCaprio, who in a sort of passing of the teen-idol baton sat courtside at the Lakers' game last weekend next to Zac Efron, has listed one of his Malibu properties for sale at $8,999,000. What's next? Will Efron and his real-life girlfriend and "High School Musical" costar Vanessa Hudgens soon be frolicking surf-side? Stranger things have happened in Hollywood, you know.
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Meg Ryan's Bel-Air home for sale for $19.5 million
Remember that classic diner scene in "When Harry Met Sally" in which Meg Ryan fakes an orgasm and a nearby customer instructs the waitress, "I'll have what she's having"? Well, what we'd like to have is actress Ryan's Bel-Air house, which she just listed for sale at $19.5 million.
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Jonathan Turteltaub sells West Hollywood home for $3.2 million
Jonathan Turteltaub, director of big-budget movies, including "National Treasure" (2004) and its sequel, "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" (2007), sold his West Hollywood-area home for $3.2 million in July. The sales price was recently entered in public documents.
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Cynthia Watros-Gilliland sells her Hancock Park home for $5.2 million
Consider actress Cynthia Watros-Gilliland no longer "lost" in the sea of sellers. The woman who played Libby, a psychologist, on the popular ABC-TV series "Lost," has sold her 1923 Hancock Park home for $5.2 million.
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'Entourage' actress Monica Keena buys $1.05-million Hollywood Hills home
At 29, Monica Keena may be pushing the age charts to qualify as a young Hollywooder, but the actress who played one on TV -- Kristen, Eric's girlfriend on HBO's "Entourage" -- took the very grown-up step of buying a house in the Hollywood Hills.
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Kinka Usher buys new home in Pacific Palisades
The one-man antidote to TiVo -- that nifty device that allows, among other things, you to whiz past commercials that interrupt your favorite TV shows -- may be Kinka Usher. Usher's House of Usher production company makes those commercials that people talk about at the water cooler, the ones that are often more entertaining than the shows they are interrupting -- remember the talking chihuahua who says, "Yo quiero Taco Bell"?Usher is moving to the Pacific Palisades, where he just bought a newly constructed home for $3,525,000, according to the Multiple Listing Service. The home, listed originally at $4,775,000 and then lowered in price to $3,950,000, had been on the market for about nine months.
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CCH Pounder lists West Adams home for $1.25 million
On FX's "The Shield," CCH Pounder plays the fictional LAPD Capt. Claudette Wyms -- the self-appointed voice of morality at "the Barn," as her division headquarters is affectionately called. Her frequent clashes with bad boy Det. Vic Mackey (played by Michael Chiklis) underscore her determination and strength -- both qualities that might come in handy as she tries to sell her West Adams home in this market.
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Bob Mackie's former Los Angeles estate listed at $2.5 million
Fashion designer Bob Mackie -- a.k.a. the Sultan of Sequins -- owned this house from 1997 to 2005. It was purchased for $1,825,000 from Mackie by a real estate agent who upgraded the property and is now back on the market at $2.5 million.
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The late Vivian Sheehan's Santa Monica home sells for $2,185,000
Hollywood doesn't have a lock on heroes. They exist in every field, many of them unsung.
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Tim McGraw, Faith Hill list Beverly Park home at $14.8 million
As far as his country music fans are concerned, Tim McGraw could sing the Yellow Pages, and it would still sound mighty purdy. And the fact that he's mad at his record label for putting out another greatest-hits package of his songs instead of new tunes, well, it just makes those fans happier than bugs who missed the windshield to know that he cares.
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Peter Wingfield lowers price of Studio City home to $2,699,000
Methos, the oldest living Immortal ("Highlander: The Series" for those whose viewing tastes are insufficiently celestial), hopes that a lower price will help sell his earthly residence.
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'West Wing's' Timothy Busfield lists Malibu home at $1,995,000
Timothy Busfield is one of those ensemble cast actors whose characters stick in the public's consciousness long after the series ends.
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Alex Wallau sells Brentwood home to Mac Davis for $4.9 million
Sometimes, Hollywood real estate transactions feel more like baton-passings than house transfers -- one entertainment heavyweight turning over the keys to another. An example: Former ABC President Alex Wallau recently sold his Brentwood home to country music singer Mac Davis for $4.9 million.
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'Brothers and Sisters' " actor Matthew Rhys buys in Mid-City
"Brothers and Sisters" cast member Matthew Rhys is settling into his new Mid-City home, purchased for $1,262,500.
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Ving Rhames' mission possible: selling his Brentwood home
In an indelible award-show moment, best-actor winner Ving Rhames gave his Golden Globe to fellow nominee Jack Lemmon in 1998, saying: "I feel that being an artist is about giving, and I'd like to give this to you." There was nary a dry eye in the house, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. later made a duplicate award for Rhames. (Sorry, Sally. While we may really, really like you, this guy is a class act.)
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Hot Property: Lance Bass re-lists Beverly Hills home, this time for $3,925,000
Lance Bass, the 'N Syncer who has stepped into the role of dance champ Lacey Schwimmer's partner on "Dancing With the Stars," has again listed his Beverly Hills home for sale.
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John Diaz's Mar Vista-area home for sale for $3,995,000
John Diaz is a guy who keeps things in perspective; brushes with death tend to do that for you.
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Rockstar drink CEO Russell Weiner's home above Sunset Strip for sale for $2,995,000
Russell Weiner, the man behind Rockstar, the energy drink that shoots a 200-milligram bolt of caffeine into your system per bottle, has listed his 4,414-square-foot home just above the Sunset Strip at $2,995,000.
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Jakob Dylan's Brentwood Park home is for sale for $11 million
Like a rolling stone, singer-songwriter Jakob Dylan -- he of the famous daddy -- may be moving on.
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Cathleen Gallagher's Pacific Palisades home for sale for $5,595,000
It's hard to imagine multiple-time Vogue cover girl Cathleen Gallagher wearing a low-slung tool belt and traipsing around a construction site, but she apparently knows her way around a hammer -- and wasn't afraid to use one when it came to building her green home.
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Tori Spelling's Westwood home for sale for $2,395,000
If Hollywood had true royalty, Tori Spelling -- the daughter of Candy Spelling and the late Hollywood producer Aaron Spelling -- would be its reigning princess. And the princess is switching castles.
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Shirley of Hollywood's Roy Schlobohm lists Malibu beach home at $13.3 million
Long before there was a Victoria with a secret, there was Shirley of Hollywood.
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Meg Ryan lists Bel-Air home at $19.5 million
Remember that classic scene from "When Harry Met Sally," where a customer instructs the waitress, "I'll have what she's having"? What we'd like to have is actress Meg Ryan's Bel-Air house, which she just listed for sale at $19.5 million.
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'CSI: Miami's' Khandi Alexander lists Hollywood Hills home at $2,995,000
When you're channel-surfing some evenings, doesn't it seem like there's a "CSI" show on every station? And while all those gory dissection scenes sort of blur together after awhile, few could wield a scalpel with the savoir-faire of Miami chief medical examiner Dr. Alexx Woods. Heck, she even spelled her name in a cool way.
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Hot Property: Rosemarie Stack's Wilshire Terrace apartment for sale for $6.5 million
In a region spewing over with natural beauty, the appeal of living in a soulless apartment tower along the Wilshire Corridor has always been an enigma to some. But to each his own, and all that.
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Melissa Joan Hart, TV's Sabrina, lists Sherman Oaks home
There are certain roles in Hollywood that, once cast, simply stick like glue.
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Hot Property: Producer-director buys Hollywood Hills home for $5.75 million
The producer-director known as McG is the new owner of a Hollywood Hills home, purchased for $5.75 million, according to the Multiple Listing Service.
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Hot Property: 'Laverne's' David Lander lists Woodland Hills home at $999,900
Laverne and Shirley's pal Squiggy has listed his Woodland Hills home at $999,900.
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Hot Property: Joe Maloof lists Brentwood home for $4,995,000
Where are all the Maloofs going?
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Hot Property: Jewel, Ty Murray's Hollywood Hills home for sale for $1.75 million
Singer-songwriter Jewel and her cowboy extraordinaire husband, Ty Murray, are hoping to lasso a buyer for their Hollywood Hills home, just listed at $1.75 million.
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Hot Property: Melissa Joan Hart's Sherman Oaks home for sale for $3.25 million
There are certain roles in Hollywood, that once cast, simply stick like glue. Sean Connery will always be James Bond. Anthony Hopkins will always be Hannibal Lecter. And Melissa Joan Hart will always be Sabrina the Teenage Witch, no matter how many decades pass.
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Hot Property: Tori Spelling's Westwood home for sale for $2,395,000
If Hollywood had true royalty, Tori Spelling -- the daughter of Candy Spelling and Hollywood producer Aaron Spelling -- would be its reigning princess.
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Hot Property: Mark Wahlberg's Beverly Hills home is for sale for $15.9 million
ACTOR Mark Wahlberg Mark Wahlberg -- a.k.a. Marky Mark (the guy whose trademark was stripping down to his whitey-whites during concerts) -- has listed his house in Beverly Hills at $15.9 million.
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Hot Property: Tim McGraw, Faith Hill list Beverly Park home at $14.8 million
As far as this country music fan is concerned, Tim McGraw could sing the yellow pages and it would still sound mighty purdy. And the fact that he recently expressed great annoyance at his record label for putting out another greatest-hits package of his songs instead of new tunes, well, it just makes me happier than a bug who missed the windshield to know that he's thinking of us fans.
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Hot Property: Rocker Beck's Malibu home for sale for $2,399,000
The perpetually touring genre-bending performer Beck has listed his Malibu beach home at $2,399,000. Who needs a second home when you are barely around long enough to use your first one?
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Hot Property: Stonepine resort owners' Bel-Air home for sale for $18 million
When Hollywood celebrities want a storybook wedding, they usually head for the Stonepine Estate Resort in Carmel Valley. It's a place that even Fodor's described as "supremely exclusive." If you are Brad or Tom, that's a good thing.
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Hot Property: Late songwriter Ray Evans' Beverly Hills home is for sale for $9,995,000
The Beverly Hills estate of three-time Oscar-winning songwriter Ray Evans is listed for sale at $9,995,000.
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Hot Property: Eddie Murphy's ex-wife aims to sell Calabasas house for $8,495,000
A new price, a new dawn? Perhaps. Eddie Murphy's ex-wife, Nicole Murphy, has re-listed her Calabasas house, asking $8,495,000. In October 2007, she had it on the market at $9,995,000.
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Hot Property: Barbi Benton lists Bel-Air home for $17.5 million
Barbi Benton -- Hugh Hefner's former live-in girlfriend -- and her husband (a real estate developer) have listed their Bel-Air home at $17.5 million.
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Hot Property: Ed Ruscha lists Malibu house for $7.15 million
American pop artist Edward Ruscha has listed his Malibu beach house for $7.15 million. Ruscha, whose work is ranked with that of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, owns other properties in Los Angeles and considers the city his home.
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Hot Property: Ving Rhames lists Brentwood home for $2,699,000
My favorite award-show moment came in 1998 when best-actor winner Ving Rhames gave his Golden Globe to fellow nominee Jack Lemmon, saying, "I feel that being an artist is about giving, and I'd like to give this to you." There was nary a dry eye in the house and the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. later made a duplicate award for Rhames. (Sorry Sally, while we may really, really like you, this guy is a class act.)
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'High School Musical's' Vanessa Hudgens buys Studio City home for $2.75 million
OK, PULL up the blinds in your sleeping tween-ager's room and show her this column. I promise she will not shoot daggers your way. Vanessa Hudgens Vanessa Hudgens of "High School Musical" fame has bought her first house. It's in Studio City, it cost $2.75 million, and she isn't out of her teens yet.
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Christopher Lloyd lists Montecito home at $3.6 million
Actor Christopher Lloyd is just one of those guys who you know would be a hoot to meet at a cocktail party. The three-time Emmy-winning Lloyd has tons of movie, TV and stage credits -- typically playing oddball characters. You likely know him as the eccentric Emmett "Doc" Brown in the "Back to the Future" franchise, but to me, he'll always be Taber in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975). (Gee, was Jack Nicholson in that movie too?)
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Hot Property: Mark Wahlberg's Beverly Hills home for sale for $15.9 million
Mark Wahlberg -- a.k.a. the strip-down-to-his-briefs Marky Mark -- has listed his house in Beverly Hills at $15.9 million.
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Hot Property: 76er Elton Brand sells Hollywood Hills home for $4,550,000
While many a young man's fancy may be turning to the baseball diamond these autumn days, there's news from the basketball court as well: Elton Brand, forward for the Philadelphia 76ers, has sold his Hollywood Hills home for $4,550,000.
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Hot Property: 76er Elton Brand sells Hollywood Hills home for $4,550,000
While many a young man's fancy may be turning to the baseball diamond these autumn days, there's news from the basketball court as well: Elton Brand, forward for the Philadelphia 76ers, has sold his Hollywood Hills home for $4,550,000.
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Hot Property: Mark Wahlberg's Beverly Hills home for sale for $15.9 million
Mark Wahlberg -- a.k.a. the strip-down-to-his-briefs Marky Mark -- has listed his house in Beverly Hills at $15.9 million.
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Hot Property: 'Buffy's' Joss Whedon puts Brentwood home up for sale for $3,695,000; David Greenwalt sells Pacific Palisades home for $2,958,000
I love Halloween, don't you? And in the spirit of the holiday, here's some real estate news about a couple of masters of spook.
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Hot Property: Vanessa Hudgens buys first house in Studio City, for $2,750,000
OK, pull up the blinds in your sleeping tween-ager's room and show her this column. I promise she will not shoot daggers your way. Vanessa Hudgens of "High School Musical" fame has bought her first house. It's in Studio City; it cost $2,750,000; and she is 19.
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Hot Property: Julianna Margulies' Santa Monica home for sale at $4.5 million
Whenever I walk into a hospital emergency room, I still look for Nurse Hathaway -- the one who goes the extra mile for her patients, even when someone who looks like George Clooney is distracting her at the moment.
Hot Property: Britney Spears lists her home for $7.9 million
GOOGLING "Britney Spears" just now yielded 98,600,000 hits; googling " President Bush," 44,600,000. Makes you wonder what's wrong with this planet, doesn't it?
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Hot Property: Pickfair is for sale for $60 million
There are celebrities so well-known that they need to use only one name. The housing equivalent is Pickfair, the Beverly Hills Georgian manor whose name instantly summons images of old Hollywood and the days of glamour and opulence.
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Hot Property: George Hamilton buys on Wilshire and makes cookies part of the deal
It would seem that actor George Hamilton hungers for more than just a perpetual tan. Hamilton, who recently bought along the Wilshire Corridor, wrote into the purchase offer that the seller -- who runs a popular bakery -- had to keep him in cookies for a year. Now why didn't I think of that?
Hot Property: Kelsey Grammer puts up Holmby Hills estate for a quick flip
Meet Kelsey the flipper.
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Hot Property: Kelsey Grammer's Holmby Hills estate for sale at $19.9 million
Meet Kelsey the flipper.
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Hot Property: Denise Richards' Hidden Hills home on the market for $4.25 million
Maybe it's because neighbors didn't exactly roll out the welcome wagon when she began filming her new reality TV show at home, or maybe it's because, as she says, she wants to be closer to her kids' school. Whatever the reason, expect the moving van to pull up to Denise Richards' place in Hidden Hills soon. Yup, we likely won't have this Bond girl to kick around anymore.
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