Monte ito Miscellany by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail before moving to New York to write for Rupert Murdoch’s newly launched Star magazine in 1978; Richard later wrote for New York magazine’s “Intelligencer”. He continues to make regular appearances on CBS, ABC, and CNN, and moved to Montecito four years ago. Forbes’ Rich List hen it comes to wealth, our Tycoon area positively glows. Harold W Forbes, the bi-weekly New Simmons York-based financial magazine, has almost just published its eagerly awaited doubles for- annual list of the 400 richest people in tune in one year America, and 11 live in or around our Dream. Design. Build. Live. Eden by the Beach. But one particularly outstanding resident is peripatetic Texan Harold relax! Simmons, 80, who flies between his 27-acre acre Montecito estate, former- ly the home of actor Gene Hackman, and his Dallas mansion, who has seen his net worth almost double to $9.3 CFDLFS billion from $5 billion last year. On the tuvejpt world listing he is ranked at 179. in the world rankings. Harold, whose position on the list Google honcho Eric Schmidt, QP!Cpy!5256:!Tboub!Cbscbsb-!Dbmjgpsojb!:4251 has jumped from 55 to 33, has seen the 56, who bought comedienne Ellen excAfmpdip/dpn!}!Qipof/916/:76/:666!}!Gby/916/:76/:677!}!xxx/fmpdip/dpn value of his publicly traded buyout DeGeneres’ four-acre estate for $20 vehicle, Valhi, which deals with waste million four years ago, is valued at management and chemicals, climb a $6.2 billion, ranking him at 50, a drop staggering 250 percent in the last year. of two places from last year. Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, 55, Star Wars director George Lucas, heads the list for the 18th consecutive 67, who acquired a 1.7-acre oceanfront year with $59 billion, and Berkshire home in Carpinteria in December, is Hathaway tycoon Warren Buffett, 81, 107 with $3.2 billion, while probably with $39 billion, $6 billion less than our most famous resident, TV talk 2010, comes in at number two. show titan, Oprah Winfrey, is at 139 But Larry Ellison, 67, founder of with $2.7 billion, putting her at 420 in Oracle, the computer software com- the world ranking, on par with New pany, who has a number of homes in York mega-developer Donald Trump. Santa Barbara, has gained $6 billion, Beanie Baby magnate and hotelier bringing his worth to $33 billion, plac- ing him third on the U.S list and fifth MISCELLANYMISCELLANY Page 19

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6 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 29 September – 6 October 2011 MMISCELLANYISCELLANY (Continued from page 6) Ty Warner, 67, owner of the San Ysidro if exhilarating, experience, which Ranch and the Biltmore, is valued at we were happy to have over quite $2.4 billion, making him 166 on the quickly,” says Jarryd, a former George U.S. list, while cell phone innovator Washington University student. “Most Craig McCaw, 62, ranks at 273 jointly cars drive without headlights, but we with another Montecito resident, real had a headlamp, LEDs and a Maglite. estate magnate Herb Simon, 76, with We were swerving through traffic like SATURDAY! Blake Mycoskie $1.6 billion. we were driving an American diplo- Founder and Start Something That Matters: Closing off the list of “locals” is matic convoy through Baghdad!” Chief Shoe Conscious Capitalism Peter Sperling, 51, whose father, John, As to completing the daunting tour, Giver of SAT, OCT 1 / 4 PM / ARLINGTON THEATRE founded the University of Phoenix, which even went into Nepal at the America’s largest private university, base of the Himalayas, Jarryd says on “One of the most interesting at 372 with $1.15 billion, while polo the race blog: “We are very dirty, very entrepreneurs [I’ve] ever playing founder of Colony Capital smelly and very beardy. Despite chil- met.” – Bill Clinton Tom Barrack, 64, and Warren Buffett’s dren throwing fist-size rocks at us on partner Charles Munger, 87, are both the outskirts of the city, we made it! It valued at $1 billion. was the trip of a lifetime. As for now, I The biggest gainer of wealth think we have earned ourselves a nice Leymah Gbowee overall is Facebook founder Mark warm Indian beer.” Mighty Be Our Powers – Zuckerberg, 27, whose net worth I’ll drink to that... How Sisterhood, Prayer, and increased a staggering $10.6 billion to Sex Changed a Nation at War a current $17.5 billion, landing him in Leonardo: The Early Years SUN, OCT 2 / 4 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL the top 20 at number 14 for the first Santa Barbara Museum of Art time. director, Larry Feinberg, took many Liberian peace activist and recipient 2009 Quite a crowd!.. years of thought, but just months to John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award FREE write his first major tome The Young It Tuks Two Leonardo: Art and Life in Fifteenth- John Malkovich Starring in The Mighty Tuks – The Infernal Comedy – Jarryd Commerford and former class- Confessions of a Serial Killer mate Simon Linsley MON, OCT 3 / 8 PM / GRANADA THEATRE – show their mettle One “Hollywood star John Malkovich excels as serial Night killer Jack Unterweger. A melodic ride to hell Only with humour and irony.” Die Presse, Austria

Best of British theatre broadcast to cinemas around the world One Man, Two Guvnors TUE, OCT 4 / 7:30 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL “An evening of riotous delight… I found After 12 days and 2,000 miles, which Century Florence. myself physically incapable with saw Montecito’s Jarryd Commerford, The impressive 203-page, lavishly laughter.” Daily Telegraph 24, and his former classmate, Simon illustrated book attempts to unveil the Linsley, 23, drive a three-wheeled reality behind the Renaissance artist, seven-horsepower motorized rick- best known as the creator of the Mona shaw across some of India’s roughest Lisa at the Louvre in Paris. Cambodia’s Khmer terrain, the dynamic duo completed “He is one of the great painters,” Arts Ensemble the challenging task last Thursday, says Larry, who moved here from THU, OCT 6 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL raising more than $15,000 for the Chicago in December 2007, after Dream Foundation. working at the Frick, the National “A gorgeous spectacle... Shapiro’s The tuk-tuk race, from Shillong, Gallery and the Chicago Arts Institute. journey unfolds like a moving Meghalaya, to Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, “But there has been this whole painting. Exquisite.” was not without incident, with Jarryd, mythology about him and I wanted The New York Times whose grandfather, Stan Fishman, is to correct that. This is about the first one of the founding members of the twenty years of his life, because not popular Santa Barbara charity, being much has been written about that sidelined by a nasty case of “Delhi period. Trombone Shorty Belly.” “People saw his early works as not & Orleans Avenue Near the end of the race, which saw being completely formed and he has FRI, OCT 7 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL the intrepid twosome, who dubbed generally been painted as a transcen- themselves “The Mighty Tuks,” com- dent genius.” “Troy possesses the rarest combination ing in 16th out of 60 international But Larry, who attained four degrees of talent, technical capability and teams, they tried to squeeze their from Harvard and Northwestern uni- down-home soul. I’m his biggest fan.” vehicle into a sewer drain to avoid a versities, feels otherwise. – Wynton Marsalis huge detour, but without any luck. “Leonardo had a terrible time fin- They even drove at night en-route ishing anything. He was a perfection- from Allahabad to Agra, site of the Taj ist. Nothing pleased him. Even the (805) 893-3535 Mahal. “Driving at night is a terrifying, MISCELLANYMISCELLANY Page 22 www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu 29 September – 6 October 2011 Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see – Martin Luther MONTECITO JOURNAL 19 MMISCELLANYISCELLANY (Continued from page 19) taking photos with the crew and sign- ing autographs... Larry Feinberg’s new book, The Sand Snakes for the Win Young Leonardo: Art and Life in Fifteenth-Century Florence, attempts to reveal the real Leonardo

UCSB ARTS & LECTURES PRESENTS Mona Lisa took him decades to do and he never gave it to his patron.” Jack Sears presents the Sears Perpetual Volleyball Championship Trophy to Jim Clive at Cafe Del Sol THE INFERNAL COMEDY As to the centuries-old rumor CONFESSIONS OF A SERIAL KILLER that the Mona Lisa’s face is really a Cafe Del Sol’s first official volley- STARRING JOHN MALKOVICH reflection of da Vinci’s, Larry says: ball tournament, between the Sand “Absolutely not. It’s a real woman and Commandos, coached by Gary MON OCT 3 8PM we even know who she was!” Cummins, and the Sand Snakes, And as to writing his letters in a under the athletic tutelage of Jim secret code, Larry says Leonardo was Clive, at East Beach, was a closely STATE STREET BALLET PRESENTS left-handed and simply did not want contested affair. STARRY NIGHT to smear the ink. But Jim’s team, with Bill Davis, “Leonardo was not the great sci- Steve Crawford, Joannie Wagner, THURS OCT 6 77:30PM entist everyone thought. He only got Clyde Bennett and Dakota McIntyre, SUN OCT 9 2PM a couple of years of formal educa- just had the edge, winning the Sears tion and didn’t know Latin or Greek, Perpetual Volleyball Championship which was important at the time.” Trophy, which was presented by the CAMA PRESENTS Larry, who will be discussing his popular nosheteria’s owner, Jack THE LOS ANGELES book at the museum’s Mary Craig Sears. Auditorium on October 27, says he “Each game was incredibly close,” PHILHARMONIC would like to write two more tomes says Trish Davis, the organizer. “Some GUSTAVO DUDAMEL, CONDUCTOR on da Vinci, making a trilogy. of us spent more time in the sand than “But, given all the research needed, on it!” SUN OCT 16 4PM that will probably have to wait until The brass trophy, complete with the my retirement,” he adds... ball, signed by all the players, will UCSB ARTS & LECTURES PRESENTS reside above the bustling bar until the Lowe’s Cool Composure next contest... NEW YORK CITY BALLET Rob Lowe kept his cool during MOVES strong turbulence on a flight from Los Think Pink TUES OCT 18 8PM Angeles to New York the other day. Taking a leaf out of Funny Face, the Montecito-based Rob, 47, star of classic 1957 Stanley Donen film based WED OCT 19 8PM NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” was on the late fashion photographer traveling with his 18-year-old son, Richard Avedon, starring Fred Astaire, SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY PRESENTS Matthew, in first class on Virgin Audrey Hepburn and Kay Thompson, Nir Kabaretti, Conductor Airways. everybody attending the 13th annual FANASTIQUE Lynn Harrell, Cello In the middle of helping his son, benefit for the Breast Cancer Resource OPENING John Adams: Tromba Lontana Elgar: Cello Concerto who has been interning in House Center of Santa Barbara was urged to Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s office “Think Pink!” during the summer, the trip turned And most of the 300 guests took SAT OCT 22 8PM SUN OCT 23 3PM decidedly rocky, but the actor, a veter- it to heart making the garden of the an air traveler, remained unperturbed. Montecito home of Steven and Wynne UCSB ARTS & LECTURES PRESENTS Not so many of the other passen- Benhayon look more like a scene from HUBBARD STREET gers, who started to panic. the swank Bath and Tennis Club in “People were screaming, it was that Palm Beach, Florida, with an absolute DANCE CHICAGO bad. But Rob kept his cool,” says a fel- abundance of pink linens, be they low passenger. dresses, pants or jackets. TUES OCT 25 8PM After the safe landing, he went into Emcee, the ubiquitous Andrew the cockpit to thank the pilot, even Firestone, whose wife, Ivana, sport-

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22 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 29 September – 6 October 2011 ed a positively perky pink fascinator, Wendy P. McCaw Foundation, started of some of Britain’s most respected process that will carry on for several even had pink soles on his black pat- by the publisher of the Santa Barbara institutions to prepare for a lifetime of months.” ent Velcro-fastened sneakers! News-Press. royal duties. Her official engagements will be The event, co-chaired by Dinah Karen, who also wrote All For The one-to-ones are taking place at kept to around one a month until then, Calderon and Rachael Stein, was Animals: Tips and Inspiration for Living St. James’s Palace in London through- to give her time to become accus- creatively decorated by local party a More Compassionate Life ten years out the fall. tomed to her new life in the global guru Merryl Brown, with pink and ago, will be reading from her new William’s mother, the late Princess spotlight... white balloons floating in the pool, book at the Montecito Library on Diana, complained bitterly at being while a decidedly androgynous per- October 24. thrown into official duties without Sightings: Josh Brolin and wife, sonality, decked out in a gigantic She has also held several training or coaching. Diane Lane, noshing at Olio e pink wig – a mix of Madame de “Compassion for Critters” workshops Kate has carried out just one official Limone... Oscar nominee Edward Pompadour and Zandra Rhodes – at Montecito Union School. engagement since marrying the future James Olmos spotted strolling near with a large ruffle-trimmed round Definitely paws for thought... King William V in April. Stearns Wharf... Drew Barrymore table circling her waist, circulated But her duties are set to increase checking out the new vegetarian eat- around the guests, including Mike Horsin’ Around when Buckingham Palace reveals ery, Adama and Anne Towbes, Leslie Ridley- the charities she will be supporting Tree, Brian King, Hiroko Benko, in her role as a royal patron in the Pip! Pip! for now Corinna Gordon, Justin Klentner New Year. and Amanda Masters, Paige Beard, “Kate is being briefed on how the Readers with tips, sightings and Thomas Rollerson, Maryanne state works, getting to know the other amusing items for Richard’s Contreras, Susan McCaw and national institutions better and learn- column should e-mail him at rich- Ricardo Calderon. ing more about organizations such as [email protected] or send Nearly $90,000 was raised before the arts, the media and the govern- invitations or other correspondence the party even began, with another ment,” says my palace mole. “It is a to the Journal •MJ $35,000 expected to come in from the silent and live auctions, which includ- ed stays at the Biltmore, a Padaro Lane beach house and a condo in Vail, Colorado. A swell-egant event, indeed...

Furry Friends

L. to r: Gail Young, Kevin Snow and Bobbi King. (Photo: Barbara Cleveland) Horses and riders were out in force for the Montecito Trails Foundation’s 26th annual barbe- cue at the Montecito Valley Ranch home of Hal and Mary Coffin after enjoying the pleasures of the 300 miles of trails in the area, which the popular organization tends and Karen Lee Stevens launched her first children’s keeps open. book, Animals Have Feelings, Too! A record 170 guests helped raise Santa Barbara author Karen Lee around $40,000 for the cause despite Stevens has launched her first chil- the overcast skies, with Gail Young, dren’s book, Animals Have Feelings, Gail Persoon and Bobbi King co- Too! chairing the bash. Filled with humor and whimsical Kevin Snow, the foundation’s illustrations by San Diego-based Teri president, says it was the first time Rider, this enchanting and educa- two trail races had been sponsored, PTS has more Stickley Furniture tional 32-page A to Z guide takes with short and long courses of six younger readers on a journey through and ten miles. on display than ever before! the alphabet with the help of lovable Silent auction items included Labrador, Sandy. brunch at the Biltmore, lunch at the “By the time a child reaches the Stonehouse and whale watching for age of 3, they begin to learn that their 18 on the Sunset Kidd... All Stickley is 35% OFF! behavior and actions, both positive Discounts Taken off MSRP. and negative, can greatly impact on an Duchess Learns to be Royal animal’s health and well-being,” says Kate Middleton, the newly minted Karen. “This understanding allows Duchess of Cambridge, is taking roy- them to develop a responsible stew- alty lessons! 4(%34/2%&/20%/0,%7(/7!.44(%)2(/-%34/,//+!3'//$!34(%)2#!23
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