Levinson moved, left his name

Barry Levinson has come a long way from the knotty pine club room and marble front stoop. All the way, in fact, to "10,000 sf on 2 level acres, pool, guest quarters, separate studio, 7BR, 8 full & 3 half baths," just over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. The filmmaker moved from that spread seven years ago to a place in West Redding, Conn. But to Sotheby's International Realty, the California property will always be Levinson's home. "The Barry Levinson Estate," as it's called on the Sotheby's Web site, is listed at $17.5 million. "It's kind of retained its stature as the Barry Levinson estate," said listing agent Bill Bullock. "That's what it's known as." The house sits in the phenomenally expensive but low-key town of Ross, a Marin County burg rich enough to sustain several glorious restaurants but small enough not... [read full story]