Lou Grant’s Boss Sells to Batman’s

PETER GUBER, chairman and chief executive of Columbia Pictures Entertainment, has purchased former NBC-TV chief GRANT TINKER’s Bel-Air house for almost $8 million, sources say.

Guber shared the Columbia chairmanship with his longtime business partner, Jon Peters, until May 8, when Peters relinquished his post to establish an independent production company. Guber and Peters were named Columbia co-chairmen in 1989 after producing the movies “Batman” and “Rain Man.”

Tinker, who was NBC chairman for five years until 1986, produced the CBS-TV series “WIOU,” which was just canceled. He was also involved in producing the TV series “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Lou Grant” and “St. Elsewhere.”

Both Guber and Tinker have other houses in Bel-Air, and Tinker was already living in his new home when Guber closed escrow. Guber is expected to put his former Bel-Air home on the market. He also has a house in Malibu.

The Bel-Air home that Guber bought is a Mediterranean-style villa built in 1978 for Tinker and his then-wife of many years, actress Mary Tyler Moore, who has remarried.

Described as “a couple house,” the nearly 7,000-square-foot residence has two bedrooms and four baths in the main house and a guest cottage. The master bedroom takes up the entire second floor of the main house, which also has a dance studio, designed for Moore.

Guber plans to do extensive remodeling, adding a bedroom wing, sources say. He is also said to be contemplating building a funicular or mountain railway from his home, down a slope to the Hotel Bel-Air, which is contiguous to his 5.1-acre property.

Guber’s new home has a tennis court, swimming pool and city views, though it is in Lower Bel-Air. The residence is behind gates at the top of a long, private driveway.

Lee Raymond of Mike Silverman & Associates had the $9.95-million listing, and Marty Trugman of Alvarez, Hyland & Young represented Guber. Neither realtor nor any representatives of their firms was available for comment.

LEE MAJORS, who co-starred in the ABC-TV docudrama “Fire!”--which aired in February, has put his Malibu Colony home on the market at $4.95 million.

Majors was a regular on the ABC series “The Big Valley” from 1965 to 1969 and then starred on ABC’s “The Six Million Dollar Man” from 1974 to ’78 and “The Fall Guy” from 1981 to ’86.

He bought the house, on the beach, in 1983, after he and actress Farrah Fawcett were divorced. He listed his Malibu house “because he bought a home in Ft. Lauderdale on a waterway and has a boat,” said Mike Silverman, who has the Malibu listing at his Beverly Hills firm.

“Lee’s wife and child have already moved into the Florida home, which he will use as his primary residence,” Silverman added.

Majors’ Malibu home has two master-bedroom suites, separate guest quarters, a fully equipped gym; sauna, spa and sun deck.

The 3,500-square-foot house, which Silverman termed “rustic, with dark but wonderful woods,” was built in 1975 but was later refurbished.

KELLY LANGE, co-anchor of KNBC’s Channel 4 News, has sold her home off Mulholland Drive in the eastern Hollywood Hills to Lloyd Greif, the 35-year-old vice chairman of the investment banking firm Sutro & Co. of Los Angeles.

Greif got the house, listed at $4.5 million, for a bit under $3 million, sources say.

Lange moved to temporary quarters while her new home, a Florentine villa said to be more than 10,000 square feet in size, is being completed half a mile away from the house she sold to Greif.

Built about 10 years ago, Greif’s new home has a main house, guest cottage and pool house, all in about 9,000 square feet. The residence also has four bedrooms, including a master suite with a two-story closet; a tennis court and a swimming pool.

Greif’s former home--a three-bedroom, 3,000-square-foot house with a pool behind gates in the Santa Monica Mountains--is for lease at $5,500 a month.

Jonathan Seltzer of Alvarez, Hyland & Young represented Greif in the sale and is handling the lease.

Thirteen homes on the Pasadena grounds of the RITZ-CARLTON, HUNTINGTON, formerly the famous Huntington Sheraton, have been listed at $800,000 to $2.8 million each, with hotel room service, maid service and health club privileges available at extra cost.

The so-called “cottages,” 2,200 to 7,000 square feet in size, were among 27 built in the early 1920s for wealthy hotel guests from the East Coast who spent their winters in California.

Seven of the 27 houses were sold soon after they were built, and seven were recently restored and are being used by the hotel as luxury suites, renting at $275 to $800 a night.

The remaining cottages, which are for sale, are also being restored. They were closed as rentals in 1986 along with the hotel, which underwent a $100-million-plus reconstruction.

Nancy Kerckhoff of Coldwell Banker’s San Marino office has the listings.