Before anyone revived the 1980's, Mr. Scott had thematically run through several mansions of glamorous television mavens, without growing richer.
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But as Ghetto at the Center of the World shows us, a trip to Chungking Mansions reveals a far less glamorous side of globalization.
BEVERLY HILLS is known for many things: Rodeo Drive; Pickfair, the stylish mansion built by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks that ushered in the era of glamorous estates built by Hollywood stars; the Greystone mansion, built in 1928 and still used today as a location for movies like "The Social Network" and television shows, including "Entourage".
BOSTON — Jinzhao Wang, 14, who immigrated two years ago from China, has never seen anything like the huge mansions that loomed over Long Island Sound in glamorous 1920s New York.
A glamorous vamp, she lived in an extravagant Hollywood mansion she called the Garden of Allah.
Never mind the glamorous partner, the newborn baby and the £1.85m mansion – it was all, it seemed, to add a bit of spice to the daily tedium of life as a £60,000-a-week Premier League footballer.
At the same time, a new class of entrepreneurs, most of them with links to the government, has built gaudy mansions and helped transform Damascus, the Syrian capital, with glamorous new restaurants and cafes.
A mother and a daughter -- relatives of Jackie Kennedy -- live in glamorous squalor (and I do mean squalor) in their crumbling mansion.
But in the high times, he buys a mansion on the Gold Coast of Long Island, where he fills glamorous parties with beautiful women and the men that lust after them.
