Bruce Davison

Actor Bruce Davison and his wife, Michele, have put their remodeled Sherman Oaks home up for sale at $1.8 million. Originally built in 1959, the updated house has a two-story atrium entry, a media room, an exercise room, six bedrooms and five bedrooms in more than 5,200 square feet. A second floor in-law apartment has its own kitchen and entrance. The gated property, with a swimming pool, a spa, a gazebo and an organic garden, is on a cul-de-sac. The actor has owned the home since 1986 and oversaw the addition of the second floor, which was completed in 2003.

Reality show star and motorcycle manufacturer Jesse James, the estranged husband of Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock, has listed his Orange County home of eight years for $6.75 million. The beachfront Mediterranean sits along the sand in Sunset Beach on a gated corner lot with views of the ocean, Catalina, the Long Beach skyline and the Palos Verdes Peninsula. A stone path leads past a fountain to the double-door entry of the two-story villa. The great room features stone floors, coved ceilings and an oversized fireplace with a stone surround and mantel.

* The Oscar-and Emmy-nominated actor, who was in "X-Men" last year, appears in the film "crazy/beautiful," which opens Friday. Up and Away: We usually take off from the Santa Monica Airport and fly up to Harris Ranch in the San Joaquin Valley for a steak dinner, and then fly back. I fly up there with my friend Jeff Siegel; he's one of my best friends and the contractor on my house right now.

Actor Bruce Davison and his wife, Michele, have put their remodeled Sherman Oaks home up for sale at $1.8 million. Originally built in 1959, the updated house has a two-story atrium entry, a media room, an exercise room, six bedrooms and five bedrooms in more than 5,200 square feet. A second floor in-law apartment has its own kitchen and entrance. The gated property, with a swimming pool, a spa, a gazebo and an organic garden, is on a cul-de-sac. The actor has owned the home since 1986 and oversaw the addition of the second floor, which was completed in 2003.

Bruce Davison was in a friendly, talkative mood. At first. It was last summer and Davison was filming Fox's "Live! From Death Row," at a small studio near downtown Los Angeles. Davison, a best supporting Oscar nominee a year ago for the AIDS drama "Longtime Companion," was relaxing in his small, air-conditioned dressing room during a break. In "Live!

A few hours before the premiere of "To Kill a Mockingbird," now on the boards at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, the star of the show got a telegram from Gregory Peck. "Dear Bruce," it said, "With every good wish and a trace of envy that this time you will be playing Atticus. He's such a great character. Good but not too good to be true . . ."

Bruce Davison is starring in the television series "Harry and the Hendersons" at Universal. He also has an Academy-Award nomination to add to his Golden Globe and New York Film Critics award as best supporting actor for his role as a kind of father figure to a group of gay friends in "Longtime Companion." It suggests an acting career that even by prevailing norms has taken him to wide extremes.

Santa Claus takes two weeks off to recharge his batteries in Showtime's "Off Season," the first feature directed by actor Bruce Davison, who cast 90-year-old Hume Cronyn opposite 11-year-old Rory Culkin. In TV Times. Also, see review, F22.

Reality show star and motorcycle manufacturer Jesse James, the estranged husband of Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock, has listed his Orange County home of eight years for $6.75 million. The beachfront Mediterranean sits along the sand in Sunset Beach on a gated corner lot with views of the ocean, Catalina, the Long Beach skyline and the Palos Verdes Peninsula. A stone path leads past a fountain to the double-door entry of the two-story villa. The great room features stone floors, coved ceilings and an oversized fireplace with a stone surround and mantel.

Frank Perry's "Last Summer" was one of a handful of high-profile X-rated movies that were released in 1969 along with the Oscar-winning best picture "Midnight Cowboy" and Haskell Wexler's docudrama, "Medium Cool. " Unlike "Cowboy" and "Cool," though, "Last Summer" has fallen off the radar. It was briefly released on VHS in the early days of home video but has had no DVD release. There haven't been any recent screenings because there were no available prints in the U.S. But Thursday evening, the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre is showing a 16-millimeter print that was found in Australia.

Santa Claus takes two weeks off to recharge his batteries in Showtime's "Off Season," the first feature directed by actor Bruce Davison, who cast 90-year-old Hume Cronyn opposite 11-year-old Rory Culkin. In TV Times. Also, see review, F22.

* The Oscar-and Emmy-nominated actor, who was in "X-Men" last year, appears in the film "crazy/beautiful," which opens Friday. Up and Away: We usually take off from the Santa Monica Airport and fly up to Harris Ranch in the San Joaquin Valley for a steak dinner, and then fly back. I fly up there with my friend Jeff Siegel; he's one of my best friends and the contractor on my house right now.

A few hours before the premiere of "To Kill a Mockingbird," now on the boards at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, the star of the show got a telegram from Gregory Peck. "Dear Bruce," it said, "With every good wish and a trace of envy that this time you will be playing Atticus. He's such a great character. Good but not too good to be true . . ."

Bruce Davison was in a friendly, talkative mood. At first. It was last summer and Davison was filming Fox's "Live! From Death Row," at a small studio near downtown Los Angeles. Davison, a best supporting Oscar nominee a year ago for the AIDS drama "Longtime Companion," was relaxing in his small, air-conditioned dressing room during a break. In "Live!

Bruce Davison is starring in the television series "Harry and the Hendersons" at Universal. He also has an Academy-Award nomination to add to his Golden Globe and New York Film Critics award as best supporting actor for his role as a kind of father figure to a group of gay friends in "Longtime Companion." It suggests an acting career that even by prevailing norms has taken him to wide extremes.

Casting news: Andrew McCarthy, Diane Ladd and Bruce Davison will star in "Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital," a 15-hour drama series that is scheduled to premiere Feb. 5 on ABC. All in the family: The unscripted network series "Big Brother 4," normally seen here on KCBS-TV Channel 2, will air on sister station KCAL-TV Channel 9 on Aug. 8 while KCBS broadcasts a preseason football game. Both stations are owned by Viacom.

Movies don't get much more beguiling than this 1995 release, adapted gracefully by Dalene Young from Ann M. Martin's phenomenally popular book series. It introduces us to at least two dozen entirely appealing and talented young actors, ably supported by veterans Ellen Burstyn, Peter Horton (pictured with Schuyler Fisk), Brooke Adams and Bruce Davison (TMC Sunday at 10:10 a.m. and Saturday at 2:25 p.m.).