Malibu. A little east of LA. Its principal attraction, I suspected, was that it wasn’t Los Angeles. A narrow, twenty seven mile strip of beach houses mostly teetering on the edge. At the northern end some expensive looking plots, the sort you buy just for the land, replacing the property with something more to your own taste. But the real money was probably elsewhere. More discreet. Told actor Kevin Costner lived much further up the coast.