Last night I talked to my friend Dennis Burton, a screenwriter who moved from Nashville to California a few years ago. Last week, he and his wife Diane drove from their home in the L.A. suburb of Sierra Madre to the Beverly Hills Country Club, to hear the director of The Blind Side (a truly awesome movie) speak about how he battled back from a bust that almost ended his career (The Alamo) to becoming a Hollywood hot commodity.
Dennis said something I find interesting. Unlike in Nashville where there are upscale neighborhoods, and neighborhoods where everything is nasty, there are almost slums just a stone’s throw away from the Beverly Hills CC. Guess that explains why those 700 square foot, one-bedroom houses we see on HGTV sell for $700,000. Which is yet another reason I’m glad to live in the South. 