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Delicate as the seashore: rare Frank Lloyd Wright home sells for $22m

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‘You are the only man who can do this – will you help me?’ wrote Della Walker in her letter to Frank Lloyd Wright. The artist complied and designed her house. Photograph: Matthew Millman/Courtesy of Sotheby’s International Realty‘You are the only man who can do this – will you help me?’ wrote Della Walker in her letter to Frank Lloyd Wright. The artist complied and designed her house. Photograph: Matthew Millman/Courtesy of Sotheby’s International RealtyCaliforniaArchitect designed his only oceanfront house in California’s Carmel-by-the-Sea for a lumber executive’s widow The only oceanfront home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright has sold for $22m in California’s Carmel-by-the-Sea, the dreamy coastal enclave where Clint Eastwood once served as mayor. Read More...

Rango Trailer; or, the Animated Sequel to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas You Didnt Know You Wante

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Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp are following up their profitable Pirates of the Caribbean partnership with Rango, an animated movie about a lizard who has stumbled into the Mojave. Rango is a rube, unfamiliar with the hardships of desert life, and he’s told as much by three birds in a mariachi band and a Spanish-accented blob of an animal much better at camouflaging himself than silly Rango. Proving his lack of desert savvy, Rango runs into a cactus and gets chased around by a bird — and then the trailer gets really trippy. Read More...