Right before she left to begin an arduous, six-month shoot in New Zealand for Peter Jackson’s high-profile remake of King Kong, Naomi Watts bought her first house. Her friends thought she was crazy. Why make a monthly mortgage payment on a pricey Westside property when you’re going to be gone for half a year? “I just need somewhere to dream about,” Watts says. “I’m sick of not having a nest.” [More]