Actress Anne Archer offers townhouse for $1.1 million
The Newport Daily News, April 4, 2009 by Sean Flynn, Daily News Staff Writer
PORTSMOUTH- Actress Anne Archer and her husband, producer Terry Jastrow, have put their townhouse condominium in the Carnegie Abbey clubhouse on the market for $1.1 million.
The listing is with Melanie Delman, president of Lila Delman Real Estate. She also has the listing for actor Nicholas Cage's Gray Craig estate in Middletown, now on the market for $15.9 million, and sold the Anthony Quinn estate on Poppasquash Road in Bristol in 2006.
The 1592-square-foot townhouse at Carnegie Abbey was designed to emulate the interior of a super-luxury yacht and is the only condominium in the clubhouse with west-facing views of Narragansett Bay and east-facing views of the golf course,a according to Delman. The condo has two living rooms, two bedrooms, a wet bar and a dining balcony. Archer and Jastrow purchased the property new in 2003.
Delman said she views the Archer and the Cage listings,a s well as others, as good signs in the current recession economy. "We're seeing an up-tick in the market," she said. "Buyers have been skeptical for the past year, but that is beginning to change based on the number of appointments we are making."
The worst was in September and October, Delman said, when the financial crisis was at its low point. "There are some good signs out there, " she said. "Hopefully we are coming to the end of a bad news cycle."
Delman welcomed the interest celebrities are showing in the Newport area. "It's a positive sign for the area's draw," she said. "they are not just going to the Hamptons (on Long Island) and Nantucket." She was happy that the Wall Street Journal included Archer's condominium as part of a slide show featuring homes of three celebrities on Friday at the newspaper's Web site, www.wallstreetjournal.com.
Archer was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as Michael Douglas' betrayed wife in the 1987 thriller, "Fatal Attraction." She won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Robert Altman's "Short Cuts," and played opposite HArrison Ford in "Patriot Games" and "Clear and Present Danger." Archer currently is co-starring in the new series "Privileged" and will be seen in a new romantic comedy, "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past," in which she plays a sultry, estranged wife who more than catches Matthew McConaughey's eye.
Outside her films, she has campaigned for human rights around the world and founded Artists for Human Rights in 2006.
Jastrow is a winner of seven Emmy Awards, having produced and directed some of television's most prestigious programs over the past 25 years. They include Super Bowl XIX in 1985, the Indy 500 in the 1970s and the Kentucky Derby. He also produced six Olympic Games programs and was producer of ABC Sports' golf series. He was formerly president of Jack Nicklaus Productions, re-launched Shell's Wonderful World of Golf and created Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge, Michael Douglas & Friends, and the Tommy Bahama Challenge. Archer and Jastrow are prominent and long-standing members of the Church of Scientology.
The Newport Daily News, April 4-5, 2009
by Sean Flynn, Daily News Staff Writer
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