How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Jeanie Buss

Jeanie Buss, politician and number proprietor of the Los Angeles Lakers and co-owner of the all-female sports amusement spot WOW (Women of Wrestling), says she’s arrogant that Los Angeles is her home, wherever she went to assemblage (University of Southern California) and wherever she’s ever worked.

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“I was calved astatine St. John’s Hospital successful Santa Monica, but I deliberation of myself arsenic a national of Los Angeles,” Buss says. “I grew up successful the Pacific Palisades, and for a time, I lived with my begetter [Jerry Buss] successful a precise celebrated aged mansion successful Beverly Hills called Pickfair, which was owned by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.”

She past moved to Manhattan Beach, Playa del Rey and present lives successful Playa Vista, wherever “everybody has a dog, and the radical who don’t, get idiosyncratic else’s dog, due to the fact that everybody’s retired walking dogs,” Buss notes. “It truly gives it a consciousness of community.”

The sports enforcement says Sundays are meant for activities that assistance you bespeak connected your life, and recharge for the coming week. For Buss, those see getting a manicure oregon facial, going to the movies and having meal with absorbing guests.

7 a.m.: Up and retired with the dogs

After we get up, my hubby [stand-up comedian Jay Mohr] and I instrumentality our dogs for a locomotion to the section Starbucks, which takes astir 5 to 8 minutes. I person a four-and-a-half lb Maltese who thinks she’s a 100-pound Rottweiler that tin brag everybody around, particularly me. Her sanction is Elly May, named aft “The Beverly Hillbillies” quality Elly May Clampett. Jay’s canine is simply a Pomeranian named Bertie. She looks similar a teddy carnivore that’s travel to life. After the dogs bash their business, we spell home.

8 a.m.: Breakfast astatine home

Jay makes scrambled eggs and bagels for us, past we speech astir what’s going to hap that day, and laze astir until lunchtime. If it’s a bully day, we spell to the parkland crossed the thoroughfare and bask the sunshine with the dogs.

11 a.m.: Walk to lunch

If we spell retired for lunch, we’d locomotion to P.V. House, wherever you tin get brunch connected the weekend, oregon a large turkey sandwich. On the weekends, I locomotion to astir everything. I truly similar the thought of taking a time wherever you don’t get successful your car, but you store and bash each your activities close successful your neighborhood.

1 p.m.: Self-care

Then I mightiness spell for a manicure oregon a facial. I spell to Varnish Lab for a manicure with Tommy, oregon Escape Spa successful Playa Vista for a facial oregon a massage. If I request relaxing, there’s Swedish massage. If I’m feeling tightness successful the muscles, I get a sports massage. It truly depends connected what I consciousness I need.

4 p.m.: Movies are a indispensable …

After getting backmost home, my hubby and I determine which movie we’re going to spot astatine the Cinemark Playa Vista, which we locomotion to. I marque it a precedence to spell to the movies each weekend. Going to the movies was 1 of the things that I did with my dada that I person truly fond memories of. I punctual radical that that is our manufacture present — the amusement manufacture — and going to movie theaters is simply a assemblage event. I emotion this clip of twelvemonth due to the fact that each the blockbusters are out. You get wrong a artifact of the theatre and you tin odor the popcorn cooking. I conscionable saw the movie “Song Sung Blue” with Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman. I loved it, and had plentifulness of popcorn.

Or an flight room

If determination isn’t a movie we hold we privation to see, we’ll bash an flight room. This past weekend, we did 1 wherever you are connected the Titanic and you person 60 minutes to get everybody disconnected the boat. If you can’t lick it wrong 60 minutes, past the nonaccomplishment of beingness is connected your head. We accomplished the extremity with a fewer minutes to spare. The spot we went to is called 60Out Escape Rooms astatine [HHLA successful Westchester].

6:30 p.m.: Dinner with the “Fourth Chair”

Then, connected Sunday nights, we bash thing that we telephone the “Fourth Chair,” which was my husband’s idea. We invitation my woman Stacy Kennedy, who’s our buddy, and we travel up with ideas connected who we’d similar to person meal with. Then we invitation that idiosyncratic for the 4th seat astatine dinner. No 1 ever gets a imperishable invitation to beryllium successful the 4th chair. It has to beryllium a rotating guest.

We conscionable person bully conversation, a batch of fun, and speech astir whatever’s going connected successful popular culture. Whatever pops up, we spell down that rabbit hole. There’s ne'er an agenda. You larn a batch astir radical successful that benignant of speech that’s comfy and free-flowing.

Usually, we spell to Sweet Fish Sushi Bar & Restaurant successful Playa Vista. I emotion each the sushi — the halibut, the reddish snapper, the spicy yellowtail and the carpaccios. The work is truly bully there.

Or, we’ll spell to Caffe Pinguini, an Italian edifice successful Playa del Rey, close astatine the beach. I’d bid a Caesar salad, followed by immoderate benignant of pasta. Last time, it was penne alla vodka. What’s large astir them is they service everything truly hot, close retired of the kitchen. It’s small, but has fantabulous nutrient and service.

I besides emotion going to Baltaire Restaurant & Steakhouse successful Brentwood. It’s a steakhouse, but besides has the champion seafood tower, called the Grande Plateau. My hubby and I emotion the lobster, crab, shrimp and oysters. We onslaught it similar there’s nary tomorrow.

9 p.m.: Laugh earlier bed

Nine o’clock would beryllium the past locomotion for the dogs. We’re early-to-bed people. We mightiness ticker thing funny, drawback up connected thing we’ve recorded, similar aged sitcoms, “South Park” oregon “Saturday Night Live” from the nighttime before. We similar to laughter earlier we spell to sleep. My hubby could ticker a documentary connected the Civil War, which would enactment maine close to sleep. I similar to person a small spot much uplift earlier I autumn asleep.