Back at the ranch? Not for Roseanne

Roseanne, set to star in a new ABC series this summer, has put her Lake Arrowhead ranch on the market at $3.9 million.

The actor-comedian-TV host is selling the 11-acre property, known as Big Buck Ranch, because she wants to move on after divorcing husband and former bodyguard Ben Thomas last fall.

The couple and their young son, Buck, enjoyed the ranch since May 1999. Roseanne liked its privacy.

The ranch is available with furnishings at extra cost. These include a large collection of Western memorabilia, from poker chips to collectibles in a country store.

Behind gates, the ranch has a five-bedroom, 6,800-square-foot main house plus a two-story, two-bedroom bunkhouse and a one-bedroom guesthouse with a kitchen.

The home, built in 1979, has three fireplaces, a 12-foot, hand-carved front door brought from a distillery in Paris and a living room ceiling fixture dating to the Civil War.

Next to a great room, there are two gaming areas featuring billiards and space for a private casino. A large mahogany bar in the home was built in 1870.

One of the guest bathrooms has vintage leaded-glass saloon doors from a bar in Virginia City, Nev.

There is an outdoor redwood dance floor with a nearby grill and spa. An eight-stall barn was converted into additional office space, storage and a large recreation room with a bathroom. The ranch also has a second barn and a greenhouse.

The rolling, manicured lawn dotted with towering ponderosa pines and oak trees is zoned for horses and fenced with numerous corrals and paddock areas. The ranch adjoins hundreds of miles of national forest land with many riding trails.

Big Buck Ranch also has a tennis court and a single-slip boat dock on Lake Arrowhead.

Roseanne, who has had a home on the Palos Verdes Peninsula for the last three years, rose to fame and won a best actress Emmy for the prime-time sitcom “Roseanne,” which ran on ABC from 1988 to 1997. Later, she hosted “The Roseanne Show,” a syndicated talk show, from 1998 to 2000.

Her new show, designed to bring audiences into real workplaces, has been called “a show within a show.” Roseanne, 50, plans to be the show’s host and an executive producer.

Nick La Carra at Coldwell Banker Sky Ridge Realty at Lake Arrowhead has the listing.

Actor ends his

Hawaiian hiatus

Hal Williams, who has had recurring and regular roles on such TV series as “The Waltons,” “Sanford and Son,” “227” and “The Sinbad Show” as well as appearing in the miniseries “Roots II: The Second Generation” and the Goldie Hawn movie “Private Benjamin,” has returned from a five-year hiatus in Kauai, Hawaii, where he listed his mini-farm estate at $1.6 million.

Williams moved to Palm Desert and plans to resume his acting career full time. He continued to act on stage during his time away from films and television. “I’ve been in the business for more than 30 years,” Williams said. “Acting is in my blood, and I’m here now, trying to be part of the new season.”

He had planned to buy a condo in Hawaii but ended up buying a house. His property, in Princeville on the north shore of Kauai, includes a 2,600-square-foot house with three bedrooms and 2 1/2 bathrooms. The house, built in 1994 and remodeled in 2000, is on 2 acres.

Williams also co-starred with Clint Eastwood in “The Rookie” (1990) and George C. Scott in “Hard Core” (1979). More recently he played Grandpa on “Moesha” (1997).

“I was playing everybody’s dad,” said Williams, 64. “Now I’m playing everybody’s grandfather.”

Vision Properties Inc., in the Kauai town of Kapaa, has the listing.

A jewel in the Hollywood Hills

Loree Rodkin, who managed the acting careers of Brad Pitt, Robert Downey Jr., Sarah Jessica Parker and Lauren Holly before she became known for her jewelry designs in platinum and gold, has purchased a Hollywood Hills home for close to its $2.5-million asking price.

Rodkin, who sells her designs through Neiman Marcus, also listed her former home in the Beverly Hills area at just under $1.3 million.

The home she bought is a one-story contemporary, built in 1960 and refurbished in 2002. The three-bedroom, 3,200-square-foot house, behind gates, has a glass entryway, an open floor plan and walls of glass overlooking a landscaped yard and pool area. The home, on half an acre, also has an office.

Rodkin’s former home has two bedrooms plus maid’s quarters in about 2,600 square feet. The house, built in 1956 and recently remodeled, has a new kitchen and bathrooms, wood floors and city, canyon and ocean views.

Deborah Moore of DBL Realtors, Sunset, represented Rodkin in buying and has her sales listing. Keith Cox of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills, had the listing on the home Rodkin purchased.

His calling card

is in the hills

Aaron Kamin, guitarist with the L.A. rock band the Calling, has purchased the Hollywood Hills home of Kevin Reidy, executive producer of such movies as the upcoming “Out of Time” with Denzel Washington and “High Crimes” (2002) with Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman. Reidy bought a home on a lake in Connecticut but plans to keep a pied-a-terre in Hollywood.

Kamin, who co-wrote and performed the hit song “For You” for the new movie “Daredevil,” bought the gated Spanish villa with city views for $985,000.

The two-bedroom, 1,960-square-foot home, built in 1928, has hardwood floors, beams, French doors, arched windows and a sunken living room with a fireplace. There is a den with maple built-ins and French doors leading to a garden and a spa under a vine-covered trellis.

Kamin and his friend, Alex Band, formed the Calling in 1997. Band is the group’s lead singer and Kamin’s writing and producing partner. In 2001, the Calling released its first album, “Camino Palmero,” with the hit single “Wherever You Will Go.”

Kamin recently completed an original score for his girlfriend, director-actor Shaina Fewell, to use in her film project, “Ghosts of Genius.” Fewell and Kamin plan to live together in his new home, he said.

Stephen Lynch of DBL Realtors, Sunset, had the listing. Sue Kogen and Ilene Klein of Re/Max on the Boulevard, Encino, represented Kamin.

New Malibu setting for author

Matthew Delaney, the 24-year-old Dartmouth grad whose first book, “Jinn,” has been critically acclaimed and is in the market for a movie deal, has leased a three-bedroom Malibu condominium for $5,000 a month from April through September.

The novel is a combination of crime, horror and science fiction. Delaney recently completed his second novel, “Genome Inc.,” for the same publisher, St. Martin’s Press.

While completing his third novel, which is about the Internet boom, Delaney will split his time between his home near Boston and the Malibu condo, which is owned by London-based high-tech millionaire Thomas Frank.

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