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West Los Angeles, which includes Bel Air, Beverly Hills, and Brentwood, is where the LA lifestyle of beautiful excess parks its Bentleys.

If you have the LA dream of donning dark glasses, parking your Pilates-sculpted bottom in a leather seat, rolling down the convertible top, and driving along palm-tree-lined streets of huge mansions and meticulously landscaped lawns -- Beverly Hills is for you, baby.

Bel Air, the neighborhood in the hills west of Beverly Hills, is where LA's old-money nouveaux riches -- including many past and present cinema idols -- plan their next glittering foray into the limelight.

Of course, the high-ticket shopping and dining in Beverly Hills and Bel Air won't make you sweat up your $700 sandals. You're rich and/or you're famous! But if you're not, you can just visit these neighborhoods to enjoy watching the folks who are.

Southwest of Bel Air and only slightly less fancy, Brentwood has grown rapidly since the early 1990s. Once home to avocado groves, it now houses affluent professionals, executives -- and once upon a time, O.J. Simpson. For culture, Brentwood need only look up at the J. Paul Getty Museum, which dominates the hill above it.

And don't forget the UCLA campus, with its art, museums, and architecture, which is surrounded by Bel Air (north), Beverly Hills (east), and Brentwood (west).

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