If you're a Hollywood hotshot (and a guy), you might wind up in an apartment house on Ocean Avenue near Wilshire Boulevard. Nikki Finke reports that Paramount's Brad Grey, UTA's Jim Berkus, Larry David, music producer David Foster, and producer hiatus Brian Medavoy are among the residents. They’ve all either recently separated or divorced and have put off buying a new house (the wife typically holds onto the old place). From Deadline Hollywood Daily:
"It's just a bunch of rich guys walking around a very expensive, well-run place right on the ocean," one of them tells me. "We don't hang out. I wish I could say we even do a lot of business together, but I don't see a lot of them. I go in and up the elevator straight to my apartment." There aren't wild and crazy parties even though NBC Universal Entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman, who's famously single, also lives there. "I must not live next door to Ben. I don't hear the water gurgling from his bong," one of them told me. Meanwhile, I'm told that when Larry David moved in after splitting with his environmental activist wife Laurie, "he went to all the rooms and turned on all the lights."