Hollywood's Real Estate Romance is Over

It's not just writers. 'People don't know when they're going to be working next,' says one realtor, as entertainment buying grinds to a halt

HOME, SWEET HOME Clockwise from top left: Dorothy Parker lived at 8983 Norma Place in West Hollywood; Parker, 1948; Dennis Hopper at home in Venice, 1996; Herman Mankiewicz’s 612 N. Linden Drive; John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion in Malibu with their daughter, 1976. (credits at end)

Mention a local neighborhood to a literary-minded Angeleno and more th…