![]() ![]() Five, six million, and there's room for a tennis court if you want to build one." "Every time I walk through this room, I feel like a real estate salesman," Yablans said. Out in the entrance hall, you can see the grand staircase curving upstairs from the marble foyer. At one end, up three steps, is a curved and padded white imitation leather bar with a mirrored ceiling. It contains a grand piano, oversized and overstuffed sofas, love seats and armchairs and a collection of antique lamps, tables and accessories. ![]() One recent morning, I stood with Yablans in the middle of the set representing Crawford's living room. But with the sets he has built for “Mommie Dearest” at Paramount, producer Frank Yablans seems to have been intent on stripping away the false tinsel to expose the real tinsel underneath. They are supposed to represent the Hollywood mansion Crawford occupied during the period of her greatest stardom and early decline. They're the most opulent, fantastically lavish sets Crawford could ever have dreamed of inhabiting in real life or in the movies. ![]()
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