When he reached their top, he discovered that less than two feet separated him from the roof of the producer's hillside mansion.

A fierce and fast-moving wall of fire roared down from the Santa Monica Mountains northwest of here to the Pacific coast today, incinerating canyon ranches, hillside mansions and some of the multimillion-dollar estates of the exclusive oceanside town of Malibu.

Another change expected soon is the dismissal of the Governor, K. V. Krishna Rao, a former Indian Army Chief of Staff, whom critics have faulted for shutting himself off in his hillside mansion outside Srinagar and meeting only with Indian officials.

Reward: A Chevrolet Corvette, and an overnight stay in a hillside Palauan mansion where he will feast together with a companion of his choice.

In the Hillside Mansion A visit to Mr. Farias's hillside mansion in Maceio, a coastal city 1,000 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro, puts a human face on Brazil's complex financial scandal.

A few Sundays ago, I sat over a long lunch in a hillside mansion above Port-au-Prince, looking over the endless mountains and the wide blue bay.

Its population has shrunk from 1,400 in 1880 to 480, and the hillside Victorian mansions - some built by riverboat captains, with clear views of the Mississippi - are all that remainfrom busier times.

Then there are hillside mansions, with panoramic river views, that become prisons in winter.

Lump first met Picasso on April 19, 1957 at La Californie, Picasso's hillside mansion in Cannes.

Instead, according to the prosecutor, Murray said "Mr Jackson had a bad reaction" and urged Williams to come over to the star's plush hillside mansion right away.