This gave the kitchen a crazy look, like that of a room in the crazy-house.

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All of the seasoned homebuilders told my partner Don Kaufman and I that we were crazy, that no one would buy a house without a basement, and that we would go out of business because we priced the houses too low.

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The crazy ants nest in walls, crawl spaces, house plants or empty containers in the yard, researchers said.

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During a boozy, pansexual evening at another house, Ben and Andrew conceive a crazy plan: they will contribute to a porno festival by having sex on camera not just two straight guys but best buddies.

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Last fall, location manager Carol Flaisher knocked on the door of the Conways' rural-looking, 1820s home, assured the couple that she wasn't a crazy person and asked if they would consider renting out their house for a BBC film with the British actress.

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But Landry went barn-crazy for his own 4, 600-square-foot Malibu Canyon house.

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"I have this idea for a project I'm doing in the desert, and it's going to show you how crazy I am, " he says, launching into a description of Lee Grant's house in the movie, specifically the "kind of amazing" Indian print and bamboo bedroom in which Warren Beatty, the house-call hairdresser, sleeps with Carrie Fisher, who plays Grant's teenage daughter.

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