Tattle: In Tinseltown, a real 'Fresh Prince'

SINCE SO many Americans these days espouse to be anti-Hollywood and pro-billionaire, a battle in Beverly Hills presents a conundrum - the kind of problem that Eagles fans have when the Cowboys play the Giants and one of them has to win.

Who do you side with when wealthy Hollywood celebrities are at odds with a Saudi royal?

In the famous 90210 zip code, you see, Saudi Arabian Prince Abdulaziz ibn Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz Al Saud - one of the sons of Saudi King Abdullah - wants to build on the three adjacent Benedict Canyon parcels (5.2 acres) that he purchased in 2009, with $12 million of his people's oil money.

And on that plot of land (a/k/a Tower Lane), he wants to build a California getaway (a little shack to bring the family when his peasants go all Tunisia/Bahrain/Egypt/Libya on the Saudi rulers) that's roughly the size of Hearst Castle, at least according to producer Jon Peters in the Los Angeles Times.

How big is Hearst Castle? Over 90,000 square feet.

Given that Tattle grew up in a 10 x 10 bedroom in an apartment, that strikes us as a big house.

That's also what the prince's would-be neighbors think, and none of them is living in efficiencies.

So, residents of the neighborhood that is home to Jay Leno, David Beckham and Bruce Springsteen held a news conference last week to publicize their objections to the palatial home.

They complained that the project is oversized for the narrow streets, that years of construction will destroy their quality of life and that the proposal would create mudslide and fire hazards.

As a student of California geography, Tattle would add that the area does not need any help creating mudslides and fire hazards.

"I warned the prince that he was surrounded by very powerful neighbors and that he should be extremely careful in what he proposes to build," said Jarrett Hedborg, an L.A. interior designer who has worked on residences for Prince Abdulaziz in Saudi Arabia, Paris and Beverly Park and consulted on the new mansion.

Residents said that the compound's size - a 42,681-square-foot house, a 27,000-square-foot villa, a guest house, staff quarters and a gatehouse - doesn't fit in with the neighborhood of stately mansions, with one neighbor complaining that the pool is bigger than his house.

They have formed a group called Save Benedict Canyon, put up a website and gone door-to-door (or circular driveway to circular driveway) to let their neighbors know about the proposal.

They said that city planners need to put the project through a rigorous environmental review and planned to show up with lawyers at the next planning-commission meeting April 14.

'Superman' gets girlfriend

 According to the Hollywood Reporter, Amy Adams will play Lois Lane in the upcoming Superman reboot.

British actor Henry Cavill had been previously cast as Superman/Clark Kent with Diane Lane and Kevin Costner playing his adoptive parents.

Ma and Pa Kent sure never looked so good in the comics.

Zack Snyder will direct for Warner Bros., and there had to be a number of Warners' execs who began sweating and hyperventilating when Snyder's $100 million "Sucker Punch" took in only $19 million and handily lost its opening weekend box office battle to the low-budget sequel to "Diary of a Wimpy Kid."

Tattbits* Reese Witherspoon wed Hollywood agent Jim Toth, in Ojai, Calif., Saturday, in nuptials first reported by Usmagazine.com.

Reese was previously married to Delaware's own Ryan Phillippe, with whom she has two children: 11-year-old daughter Ava and 7-year-old son Deacon.

* A Los Angeles-area school has been named for late calculus teacher Jaime Escalante, whose story about pushing underachieving students to succeed was chronicled in the 1988 hit movie "Stand and Deliver."

A ceremony to name the new kindergarten to sixth-grade facility the Jaime Escalante Elementary School was held on Saturday.

The school is a new facility that serves 600 pupils in Cudahy, a suburb southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

The family of Escalante, who died a year ago of cancer, attended the ceremony, along with several of his former students.

* A high-resolution 3-D camera that "Avatar" director James Cameron was helping to build for NASA's next Mars rover won't fly after all.

NASA on Friday said that work on the zoom camera was halted because there wasn't enough time to thoroughly test it before launch.

Remember, after "Titanic," Cameron was "King of the World," not "King of the Universe."

* The final original episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" will air May 25, Harpo Productions announced Friday.

What do you give the woman who literally has everything?* Matthew McConaughey ("The Lincoln Lawyer," which held its audience very well in its second weekend) has a signature cocktail he likes to unwind with after a long day.

"I have my own version of the margarita," he said. "Tequila, lime juice, orange liqueur and tonic water, topped off with cranberry juice."

Unlike some potent alcoholic beverages, this drink takes hair off your chest.

* Selena Gomes has reportedly landed her own "Punk'd"-like "prank" show.

That's got to be the first one, right?

BANGShowbiz.com and Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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