Noses sometimes get turned up at the idea of living in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. I “fer sure” blame Frank Zappa for singing about those Valley girls and casting aspersions on the whole geographic area. Truth is, if you can handle the summer heat of Valley life, it’s a dang fine place to park your Uggs – and quite the little hotbed for celebrities.

Kim Kardashian may be the celebrity (can we even call her that?) that we love to hate at the moment. I’m sure Britney Spears is relieved to know she’s lost the title. The offspring of O.J.’s defense lawyer, Robert Kardashian, and her mom-anager Kris (now married to Olympic decathlete Bruce Jenner), Kim sometimes appears as a self-contained enterprise. She models with and without clothing, she has a work-out tape, a shoe-shopping service, and even made an early round of “Dancing With the Stars” before she was voted off that island. (Sorry, after a while, those shows seem to blur together, don’t you think?) But she recently had some good news: She sold her condo! Woo-hoo Kimmie!

Legendary actor Glenn Ford died in 2006 and his son Peter, who moved in with his aging dad several years before so that the actor could spend his final days at home, just put the Beverly Hills abode on the market for $7,995,000. Much of Hollywood’s Golden Age was played out in this house and we caught up with Peter to hear his first-hand stories and his reasons for selling.

Celebrities exist to provide us with an escape from our mundane, imperfect lives. So pardon me for having to dispel the illusion that celebrities aren’t suffering the same case of economic cooties as the rest of us.

Remember the 1986 “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” film, where the dad of Bueller’s best friend shared his glass living space with a hot red 1961 Ferrari 250 temptress that the boys took for a joyride through the streets of Chicago? The Highland Park, Illinois, home used in the movie is now for sale.

Hidden Hills is home to a fair number of celebs, especially those who either have horses, pretend to have horses, figure no lazy paparazzo will sit on the congested 101 to stalk them, or they simply can’t afford all those other places.

The real story behind Brad Pitt’s newest real estate purchase in Los Feliz.

Count me among the Oprah fans heartbroken over the news that she will end her syndicated TV show next year and use the time to develop her own network. But when it comes to the Queen of Daytime TV, heck, we loyal servants are here to help.