Article: The Park Slope code: why Paul Bettany is the king of outer-borough stardom.(THE CULTURE PAGES)

THE HOUSE THAT Paul Bettany shares with his wife, Jennifer Connelly, their 2-year-old son, Stellan, and Connelly's 8-year-old boy, Kai (from her previous relationship with photographer David Dougan), is one of the most beautiful in all of Park Slope. Nestled on a shady corner opposite Prospect Park, it is distinguished without being ostentatious. Its Ionic columns and great arched windows seem typical rather than showy. The garden--the disrepair of which was once, Park Slope blogger Louise Crawford tells me, a cause of consternation for some neighbors--is now a well-maintained torrent of tulips in varying shades of oxblood, peach, and white.

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