How to see the kaleidoscopic LA home that's drawing visitors from around the world
LOS ANGELES — Randlett King Lawrence is the kind of guy you can only describe as a character. At 66, he's got a face with deep smile lines that crack open whenever he meets a new person. He walks around with a pocketful of clear marbles and a lowball glass filled with white wine, uttering phrases like "that's bitchin'!" with such excitement that you can't help but agree with him.
To his colleagues in the film industry, he's a set and prop builder for movies like David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" (2001) or "Child's Play 2" (1990), the second movie about a murderous doll named Chucky. But his neighbors in Echo Park know him as the man who built the "Phantasma Gloria" — his name for the massive contraption of steel rebar and more than 1,000 colorful glass bottles that
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