Whoville Mayor Is Moving Up

Jeffrey Tambor, who plays the mentor of the artist (Ed Harris) in the movie “Pollock” and portrays the mayor of Whoville in “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” has listed his Sherman Oaks home at $750,000.

Tambor, 56, is engaged to Russian marathon runner and actress Kasia Ostlun, 32, and they plan to live in a larger home on the Westside.

Tambor has owned his Sherman Oaks home for three years.

Built in 1947, the home underwent a major remodel in the late ‘80s. The contemporary, 2,400-square-foot house, with large, open spaces, has a master suite with a fireplace plus a separate guest quarters/studio with a kitchen. The gated home also has a pool, waterfall and patio.

Tambor, who played Garry Shandling’s sidekick on the HBO comedy series “The Larry Sanders Show” (1992-98), also has appeared in such movies as “Teaching Mrs. Tingle” (1999), “There’s Something About Mary” (1998), “Meet Joe Black” (1998) and “Dr. Dolittle” (1998).

Andrew Manning of Prudential John Aaroe, Sherman Oaks, has the listing.

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Bill Phillips, who made a fortune developing and selling food supplements and athletic performance aids through his company Experimental and Applied Sciences (EAS), has purchased a home in a guard-gated Beverly Hills-area community for just under $15 million.

Phillips, 36, bought a newly built 17,000-square-foot house with five bedrooms plus a three-bedroom, 1,400-square-foot guest house and a 3,000-square-foot cabana.

The Palm Beach-style home has a cloister-style courtyard, five-car garage, a limo garage and a motor court. The home sits on a high bluff. Finishing touches are expected to take at least six months.

Phillips, whose company is based in his hometown of Golden, Colo., also publishes Muscle Media magazine, and he wrote the bestseller “Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength” (HarperCollins, 1999).

His Beverly Hills-area home was built and designed by Dugally-Oberfeld, chaired by Aleck Dugally. Maurice Umansky of Hilton & Hyland, Beverly Hills, and Valerie Fitzgerald, Coldwell Banker Previews, Beverly Hills, represented the developers.

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Clothing designer Mossimo Giannulli has sold his Bel-Air home to developer David H. Murdock, chief executive of Castle & Cook, for $11.5 million. The sale included the trade of one acre in Bel-Air, worth about $5 million.

Giannulli, 37, had owned the traditional-style brick home since 1997. It has seven bedrooms in about 9,000 square feet. The house, built in 1927 on 1.6 acres, was designed by Wallace Neff.

Murdock, 77, was in the market for a house because he sold his nearby 7.5-acre home last year to Gary Winnick, founder of Global Crossing, in a complex transaction said to be worth as much as $95 million.

The lot that Murdock included in his purchase of Giannulli’s home had been part of the deal with Winnick. Giannulli may build on the lot or sell it as did Murdock.

The lot backs up to four acres of land that also were part of the Winnick deal. The land had been the site of a Paul Williams-designed home torn down last year. The 4-acre site has been marketed in the $20-million range.

Giannulli has been reinventing his upscale but financially struggling apparel company, Mossimo Inc., with a new line for Target.

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Baseball player Gabe Kapler, a starting center fielder with the Texas Rangers, has listed his Sherman Oaks condo at just under $280,000.

Kapler, who played baseball at Taft High School in Woodland Hills, left with his wife, Lisa, and their young son for spring training and decided to sell the unit, which has two bedrooms and a loft in about 1,500 square feet.

The condo, which is in a nine-unit building built about 1990, was recently remodeled. It has valley views and a private, rooftop deck.

The baseball player, 25, is also an avid weightlifter and promoter of physical fitness. He has appeared on the covers of several bodybuilding magazines, and he has modeled for the Rangers’ merchandise catalog.

Jordan Cohen at Re/Max Olson, Westlake Village, has the listing.

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Broadway composer-lyricist Jerry Herman, who wrote the songs for such musicals as “Mame,” “La Cage aux Folles” and “Hello, Dolly!,” has put a Beverly Hills home on the market that he bought in December.

Herman spruced up the home, and now he wants to move on. Herman, in his 60s, has redesigned 29 houses, some of them as a business in Key West, Fla.

He bought the one-story, 8,000-square-foot house on nearly 2 acres in the low $4-million range. He listed it at just under $4.5 million.

The house is behind gates and has a guest house, studio and sweeping city views. Built in 1963, the house has been the home of such celebrities as Laurence Harvey, Totie Fields and Joan Collins.

Leah Steuer of Prudential John Aaroe, Beverly Hills, has the listing with Raymond Bekeris of John Bruce Nelson & Associates.

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The Corona del Mar, ocean-view home of the late William Malouf, a co-founder of the nationwide women’s clothing chain Mode O’Day, has come on the market at just under $2.8 million.

Built in 1964, the 6,000-square-foot-plus house has two master suites, two family-bedroom suites, atrium gardens next to each bedroom, an art studio, a maid’s room, a great room, a wet bar and a pool with a solar-screen canopy.

Malouf and his brothers opened and operated Mode O’Day from the 1930s until the ‘60s, when they sold the 750-store chain. William Malouf died in 1971; his wife, Vicci, died in 1990. The Corona del Mar home is owned by their trust.

Carol Malouf, the Maloufs’ daughter, represents the trust in the sale.

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Fashion’s Mossimo Giannulli, outfielder Gabe Kapler, composer Jerry Herman

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