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'SNL' alum Kevin Nealon ready to hit the 'Delete' button on his L.A. home

During his nearly 10-year stretch on "Saturday Night Live," Kevin Nealon created a recurring character known as Subliminal Man. Nowadays, the 54-year-old is probably better known as Doug Wilson, the pot-smoking embezzler on "Weeds" whose creatively offensive dialogue is delivered with an amiable lack of self-awareness. In short, the anti-subliminal man.

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Singer Joe Purdy gives a glimpse inside his life at home

A walk (virtual or otherwise) into someone's home can be oh-so revealing. Our virtual walk into singer Joe Purdy's modern farmhouse in northwest Arkansas (taken via e-mail) certainly told us something very key about him. The man is a closet metrosexual? A lover of modern art? A (gasp!) pack rat?

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Novelist Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop, a former New Yorker, talks about home in Savannah, Ga.

Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop's new novel, "December," puts you squarely in Manhattan, following the inscrutably silent Isabelle and her parents through an angst-filled month that will shake and shape their already askew life.

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Michael McKean's L.A. home is filled with singing, dancing and music

He once embodied shaggy-haired rock stardom as David St. Hubbins in "This is Spinal Tap." This summer, actor Michael McKean dons yet another long-tressed wig to play the aging hippie in "Superior Donuts," the new melancholy comedy from recent Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts, currently at the Steppenwolf through Aug. 24.

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Tony Bennett's art-filled pad with a killer view

He may live in a penthouse apartment that overlooks Manhattan's Central Park, but the feeling that fills Tony Bennett's luxe pad is simplicity.

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Inside Dwayne Kennedy's castle of clutter

Long before (and long after) Midcentury Modernism, there was Early Clutter — the design style long-neglected by the chi-chi glossies, whose editors seem to turn up their noses at the mounds of inky newspapers typical of the Early Clutter room.

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For actor G.W. Bailey, home is where the Triscuits are

Whether it's the crusty elder statesmen on TNT's "The Closer" or the cranky police captain in the "Police Academy" franchise, G.W. Bailey has played countless variations on the sourpuss. And so the obvious question: Is he as crusty as the men he portrays?

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Justin Townes Earle takes us on a tour of his tiny Nashville apartment

If you stumble into an attic apartment in East Nashville and find a 6-foot-6-inch guy crouching under its sloping ceiling, a big photo of the late great songwriter Townes Van Zandt hanging on the wall, and a bunch of guitars huddled together, you'll know you've found your way to Justin Townes Earle's pad.

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Annabelle Gurwitch lets us snoop around her LA home

Annabelle Gurwitch and her 10-year-old son Ezra have a favorite game they call "homey-home." "We drive around and we point out the houses that we think look like a homey-home — like 'cozy-homey,' " Gurwitch says. "It's a house that looks cozy and comfortable, friendly, not ostentatious. A house that looks like you could come over and have dinner and the kids could play and wreck it and no one would be unhappy."

Ariana Huffington

Ariana Huffington's home offers family charm, top-secret office

Whether or not you agree with her politics, few pundits are as entertaining or well turned out as Arianna Huffington, whose latest book has the pull-no-punches title, "Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe."

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Beard Award-winner Grant Achatz lives 'lite' in his Lincoln Park town house

It's been a roller-coaster year for Grant Achatz, who just picked up the highest chef honor at the James Beard Awards in New York last week. Keeping busy seems to be his method for maintaining an even keel.

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Writer Elizabeth Berg fills her Oak Park home with her passions

Today, Elizabeth Berg says, she ate a "muffin the size of my head." That seems about right for the writer whose latest book, a collection of short stories, is all about letting go.

Jeff Koons' Manhattan home is mixture of beautiful and mundane

In 1975, long before he became a household name, Jeff Koons spent a year in Chicago as a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as a studio assistant to Ed Paschke.

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Stefan Merrill Block, "The Story of Forgetting" author, lets us snoop around his home

Stefan Merrill Block seems to have a knack for turning unpracticed steps into waltzes.

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Welcome to Craig Robinson's pad — home of the bachelor poster child

Life is good these days for Craig Robinson. Best known as Darryl, the laid-back warehouse manager on "The Office," the Chicago native and standup comedian is firmly entrenched in the Judd Apatow clique of actors.

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Cheryl Tiegs' home delivers tropical punch

Her life has taken her from a Minnesota farm to Southern California to Manhattan and Montauk, Long Island to Kenya and back to California again. Though from looking at Cheryl Tiegs' Los Angeles home of a dozen years, you might think she was living in the South Pacific.

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Sneak a peek at filmmaker Morgan Spurlock's home

Four years ago, the world was grossed out by the binge-fest experiment, "Super Size Me," in which filmmaker Morgan Spurlock consumed McDonald's food for an entire month to gauge the health impact of a fast-food diet. His girlfriend at the time (who he subsequently married) could only look on with disgust and concern.

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Colbie Caillat is on the road, then on her own

The hustle won't stop when Colbie Caillat leaves her "Coco" world tour bus behind come fall. After taking her "Bubbly" sound around the world — and stopping in at the Vic Theater Thursday — the 22-year-old singer plans to look for a first home of her own.

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If you can't find Rex Grossman's Playboy, it's probably hidden

Now in his fourth season in the NFL, Bears quarterback Rex Grossman, starting today in the 2006 opener against the Green Bay Packers, knows expectations are big. Looking to eliminate distractions -- including a long commute -- he purchased a home last year that is just a stone's throw away from Halas Hall, the Bears training facility in Lake Forest.

Rubber turkeys, cupcakes and quarters all part of entertaining, Amy Sedaris-style

If you ever have the pleasure of receiving an invitation to dine at Amy Sedaris' place, there are a few things you should know: 1) She might try to unload her unwanted junk on you for a quarter. 2) Your dining companions most likely will include Dusty, her pet rabbit, and Ricky, the ghost of her imaginary boyfriend. 3) Don't be alarmed by the fake meat (we'll explain later).

Eva Longoria's home just has to have soul

It would not be overstating things to use the phrase "anal retentive" in describing Eva Longoria Parker's character in the romantic comedy "Over Her Dead Body" (opening Friday). Nothing out of place, and everything just so.

The down-to-earth life suits Jewel just fine

For every self-destructing Britney or Amy Winehouse, there is a Jewel. She was just 19 when her debut album, "Pieces of You," helped define the folk-rock sound of the mid-'90s. And she never once seemed to be teetering on the brink of personal disaster.

At home you can call him Cedric the Collector

Cedric the Entertainer -- real name Cedric Kyles -- was born outside of St. Louis, but he spent plenty of quality time living in Chicago.

Kathy Ireland's home is a place for experimenting and family

"Every home needs happiness," says the queen of a billion-dollar home furnishings empire.

Putting home in the spotlight

"My wife has big plans," John Lehr, star of the TBS comedy "10 Items or Less," told us recently. "She's pregnant with our second child right now, so there's a big upheaval about what we're going to do with the house."

Hundreds of shoes and, yet, room to spare

If you're a fan of TLC's "What Not to Wear," you probably could pick Stacy London's clothing out of a clothes-rack lineup. But could you pick out her apartment when faced with three interiors?

A pool, a rope swing -- a prankster's paradise

Welcome to our mini-bleepfest -- otherwise known as a visit with "Jackass Number Two" star Bam Margera at his Pennsylvania home.

Did you ever want to make a B&B your home? This soap star did it

If you're an "All My Children" fan, you definitely think Pine Valley when you see Jackson Montgomery. But home -- and heart -- for the actor who plays him is firmly rooted in New Mexico.

Got a yen for foot cheese? Stop by Carlos Mencia's

When I caught up with comedian Carlos Mencia recently by phone at his Los Angeles home, he was listening to Fergie's "Big Girls Don't Cry." "Hang on," he said, "let me turn this down."