• In Brief

    The fresh prince of Brentwood

    Picture 97-3Picture 98-3Jason Calacanis, in an audience granted a visiting French internet delegation, touts his new high-cost search engine, Mahalo. But enough of that. What's with the backdrop Calacanis chose for this video interview, given at his home in Santa Monica? We'd heard the self-styled "bon vivant" — who tells everybody he's tired of riding in other people's private planes — had developed tycoonish tastes of late. But we didn't realize, until seeing the classical statue by an oversized poolhouse, that the Brooklyn streetfighter had adopted home decor taste of Larry Ellison, his billionaire neighbor up the coast in Malibu.

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