By Sheila Marikar | The New York Times
LOS ANGELES — The Tesla S.U.V. veered left off Hollywood Boulevard and charged uphill, toward the canyons and the homes beyond the scope of the star-spotting tour buses. The roads are narrow, and the stars, for the time being, are elsewhere.
“You see those palm trees up there?” asked the S.U.V.’s driver, the real estate agent Branden Williams, nodding at a frond-fringed estate in the distance. “Elvis, the Beach Boys, they all used to rent that house when they’d come to town. It’s under construction now. We just sold it. Drew Barrymore used to live there. We sold it for her. She would throw the most insane parties, legendary, back when Hollywood still had that mystique — you know, the late ’90s.”
“Before cellphones with cameras,” he added.
