Hollywood
Rolling Stone Restaurant and Lounge Ready for Grand Opening

In the modern world of consumerism a brand is built around a name and the name becomes the core of the product. For the first time the Rolling Stone name has been licensed for a U.S. restaurant. There is lot of curiosity and excitement about the new venture and the consensus is that the end result must justify the name.
The restaurant and lounge, located at Hollywood and Highland debuted on the American Music Awards night with a VIP party. It will open to the public on February 1. Designer Gavin Brodin has created the ambience to translate the magazine’s trademark into a Los Angeles restaurant and lounge. The designer says that elements of the British travel lounges and elements of the Paris of 1870s have been incorporated in the design.
The restaurant and the lounge is spread over two floors in a total of 10,500-square-foot of space. The lobby is on the second level with an antique floor cart salvaged from an old citrus factory that serving as the reception desk. The dining room has space for 140 diners. The room is lit by street lamps and custom-made crystal chandeliers. Larger-than-life images of famous musicians are hammered into the concrete walls.
Sandra Bullock Tops the Forbes Earning List

Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for her role in The Blind Side this year and already she has zoomed to the top of the list released by the Forbes magazine for the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. Sandra Bullock has been around for quite some time now some of her movies have done pretty well but it is a first for her to be crowned the Hollywood’s highest paid actress.
This is the perfect phase for Sandra Bullock. Anything she touches is turning into gold. Her romantic comedy The proposal raked in $320 million on an estimated budget of $40 million. The Blind Side also made a whooping $310 million on a modest budget of just $30 million approximately. Sandra Bullock’s earning for the year is estimated at $56million, making her the clear winner as per the Forbes list.
Reese Witherspoon and Cameron Diaz are listed second on the Forbes list with a total earning in the same period of $32 million each. The fourth place on the list has been occupied by Jennifer Aniston who made a substantial $27 million.
Tom Hanks buys Pacific Palisades Mansion for $26 Million

Just recently, Oscar winner Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson purchased a 14,500-square-foot mansion in Pacific Palisades for $26 million, which is so far the largest transaction for a single-family residence in Los Angeles County in 2010.‚
Formerly owned by producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, the home (built in 1996) was designed by New York’s Gwathmey Siegel and Associates. The house constitutes four bedrooms and five bathrooms, twice as big as their previous residence.‚
The location of this luxury mansion is such that it has Santa Monica to the southeast and the Santa Monica Bay to the southwest and Brentwood to the east, and Malibu to its west. The Pacific Palisades locality reportedly has around 27,000 residents which includes a number of prominent names in Hollywood and elsewhere.‚
And yeah, the place which is known by many as where the mountains meet the sea’, is very near to where Å”Baywatch was filmed.

