He owns a ranch in Highlands County, the backdrop for advertisements in which he shoots a gun, saddles a horse and barbecues slabs of meat.
HIGHLAND PARK in northeast Los Angeles holds many honors: the first town to be annexed by Los Angeles (in 1895), the backdrop for Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" and a historic trust of Craftsman and Victorian-style homes.
He has lived in Toronto – the backdrop for many of his movies – his entire life and Maps to the Stars is the first time he has actually filmed in Los Angeles; he spent five days there mostly, he says wryly, shooting palm trees.
The result is a sort of unpretentious Raj-in-the-tropics backdrop for the lush seafood-and-coconut dominated cooking that mingles Portuguese and south Indian elements. .
Writing in the Observer, Tutu also suggests the controversial US and UK-led action to oust Saddam Hussein in 2003 created the backdrop for the civil war in Syria and a possible wider Middle East conflict involving Iran.
Oh how the McCain campaign must have chuckled when they got an inkling of what the Obama strategists had in mind as the backdrop for his acceptance speech in the stadium of the Denver Broncos, surmounted by an apparently neutered plaster stallion.
Similarly, the painter Carl Larsson lived out his own quotidian paradise here in the early 1900s, using his house in Sundborn as the backdrop for warm depictions of hearth and home that came to define Swedish country living.
The unlikely venue of Mannofield Park in Aberdeen provided the backdrop for the start of a new era in English cricket as they look to recover from a chastening winter in which they were whitewashed in the Ashes and crashed out of the World Twenty20 at the Super 10 stage.
Howard Archer, chief UK economist at IHS Markit, said the dip in approvals was a sign the housing market would weaken in 2017, as the backdrop for consumers became more challenging.
These changes over 39 years in law enforcement in the city provide the backdrop for a striking increase in the rate at which New Yorkers kill one another -- and then a decline perhaps even more striking in that rate.
