Hot Property: Ving Rhames lists Brentwood home for $2,699,000

My favorite award-show moment came in 1998 when best-actor winner Ving Rhames gave his Golden Globe to fellow nominee Jack Lemmon, saying, "I feel that being an artist is about giving, and I'd like to give this to you." There was nary a dry eye in the house and the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. later made a duplicate award for Rhames. (Sorry Sally, while we may really, really like you, this guy is a class act.)

Rhames has listed his Brentwood home for $2,699,000. The two-story Tuscany-style home has five bedrooms and 6 1/2 bathrooms in 4,700 square feet. There is a chef's eat-in kitchen with Viking Professional appliances, granite counters and a direct entrance from the garage. One bedroom is on the ground floor. There are walnut floors, a formal dining room and a fireplace in the master bedroom suite.

Rhames, 49, played the merciless drug dealer Marsellus Wallace in "Pulp Fiction" (1994). His Golden Globe award was for his performance in HBO's "Don King: Only in America." He played the ace computer hacker, Luther Stickell, in all three "Mission Impossible" movies and was the deep-voiced Cobra Bubbles in "Lilo & Stitch" (2002). In 2005, he played the lead role on a new "Kojak" series on the USA Network.

The nickname "Ving" -- short for Irving -- was bestowed upon him by actor Stanley Tucci, who was his roommate at Juilliard.

Art and Kristina Korvel of Teles Properties Inc., Beverly Hills, have the listing.

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