Eye on Brentwood
By Herb Chase | June 20, 2011
Phyllis Avery
Popular Actress Phyllis Avery
Dies at Her Brentwood Home
Private services in early June marked the passing of stage, screen and television star Phyllis Taylor, who had been divorced years ago from actor, Don Taylor. They met during World War II, when both had leads in Moss Hart’s “Winged Victory”. She also scored a major hit acting with her lifelong friend, Toddy Glover Findley, in one of Broadway’s most famous stage plays, “Charley’s Aunt”, with Jose Ferrar. After she retired from acting, Phyllis became a very successful real estate agent selling some of the most prestigious estates on the Westside. Her daughters, Anne Taylor Fleming and Avery Taylor Moore, were at her bedside when she died after a brief illness.
Anna Nicole Smith Comes
Alive at the Royal Opera
Blonde teenager, Anna Nicole Smit
Chasing Aphrodite
h, wandered around Santa Monica beach and the Westside for years unsuccessfully seeking show business opportunities. She got a few minor tabloid breaks but by the time she turned forty in 2007, she was dead from a prolonged drug overdose. While her career was largely a flop, her character is now the center piece of a new opera entitled “Anna Nicole” playing at the Royal Opera House in London. Anna is played by Eva-Maria Westboek.
New Book, “Chasing Aphrodite”,
Embarrasses the Getty Museum
The Getty Museum in Brentwood was already red-faced over the theft and forced return of the Aphrodite statue to Europe. Getty paid $18 million for the stolen statue. James Cano, the new president of the J. Paul Getty Trust, has emphatically promised to play by the rules. Cano came highly recommended from the Chicago Institute of Art.
Lina Romay
