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July 3:When Tom Cruise celebrates his 49th birthday today, friends and family will wander through his newly refurbished mansion in Beverly Hills. They will admire the tennis courts above Sunset Boulevard, the car and motorbike collection, and, if they are especially privileged, the snoratorium.
It is the latest "must-have" architectural fad in Hollywood, this season's panic room or nuclear shelter. Typically it is a padded and atmospherically controlled bedroom where those who snore can seek refuge from intolerant spouses.
The dedicated rooms are increasingly popular in Hollywood as a new generation of well paid action heroes approach middle age, when the soft palate loses tone and produces nocturnal vibrations as loud as a train.
A visitor to Cruise's $31-million mansion on Calle Vista Drive, capable of entertaining 500 guests, said the snoratorium is at the back, a short distance from the suites occupied by Cruise, wife Katie Holmes, 32, and their five-year-old daughter Suri.
"Whoever uses the snoring room cannot be heard outside the locked door," said the visitor. "It's very small, comfortable and dark — maybe a former nursery."
Shortly after Cruise and Holmes married in 2006 it was reported that she had retreated from his bedroom because of his fearsome snoring.
A representative denied the couple had separate bedrooms, but not that Cruise snored. "How would anyone know — and, anyway, doesn't every man over 40 snore like a hippo?" said a close associate last week.
Famous snorers include Winston Churchill, Elizabeth Taylor and Johannes Brahms, who could drown out an orchestra.
Modern celebrities who have complained about bad vibrations include Kim Kardashian, the reality TV star, Julia Roberts, the actress, who has admitted to the occasional snore herself, and Courtney Cox, the Friendstelevision star, who said that David Arquette, her former husband, "shook walls".
Mark Nash, author of 1001 Tips for Buying and Selling a Home, said the perfect snoratorium should be small, comfortable and fitted with a double bed to encourage occasional visits from a compassionate wife. "Snore rooms are not on everyone's must-have list, but those who need them are very grateful," he said.
Pierre Stooss, a leading Hollywood estate agent, said many celebrities were converting a guest room into a snoring room: "Sometimes it just starts off as a temporary measure, but then word spreads and now everyone with the space wants one. The key is making it as silent as you can, both inside and outside.
"Some rooms have fish tanks to cover the noise and soothe the snorer. One millionaire, a studio lawyer, told me than he could not put a price on sleep — and a more peaceful marriage."
Sometimes a padded room is not enough. Helena Bonham Carter, 45, told the Radio Times that the snores of her boyfriend Tim Burton, the film director, explained why they lived in two houses knocked together in north London. "Tim does snore and that is an element. We have tried lots of remedies that don't work. He has a deviated septum and doesn't want an operation," she said.
For some, only a snoratorium will keep the domestic peace. Last week Judith Sheindlin, 68, known to daytime television viewers as Judge Judy and who earns $850,000 a day from her show, said she had invested some of her fortune in a snoratorium at her 23-acre estate in Connecticut. "We've had a snoring room since we moved out of a studio apartment. It's just civilised."
http://in.news.yahoo.com/worth-losing-sleep-over-000000636.html
July 3:When Tom Cruise celebrates his 49th birthday today, friends and family will wander through his newly refurbished mansion in Beverly Hills. They will admire the tennis courts above Sunset Boulevard, the car and motorbike collection, and, if they are especially privileged, the snoratorium.
It is the latest "must-have" architectural fad in Hollywood, this season's panic room or nuclear shelter. Typically it is a padded and atmospherically controlled bedroom where those who snore can seek refuge from intolerant spouses.
The dedicated rooms are increasingly popular in Hollywood as a new generation of well paid action heroes approach middle age, when the soft palate loses tone and produces nocturnal vibrations as loud as a train.
A visitor to Cruise's $31-million mansion on Calle Vista Drive, capable of entertaining 500 guests, said the snoratorium is at the back, a short distance from the suites occupied by Cruise, wife Katie Holmes, 32, and their five-year-old daughter Suri.
"Whoever uses the snoring room cannot be heard outside the locked door," said the visitor. "It's very small, comfortable and dark — maybe a former nursery."
Shortly after Cruise and Holmes married in 2006 it was reported that she had retreated from his bedroom because of his fearsome snoring.
A representative denied the couple had separate bedrooms, but not that Cruise snored. "How would anyone know — and, anyway, doesn't every man over 40 snore like a hippo?" said a close associate last week.
Famous snorers include Winston Churchill, Elizabeth Taylor and Johannes Brahms, who could drown out an orchestra.
Modern celebrities who have complained about bad vibrations include Kim Kardashian, the reality TV star, Julia Roberts, the actress, who has admitted to the occasional snore herself, and Courtney Cox, the Friendstelevision star, who said that David Arquette, her former husband, "shook walls".
Mark Nash, author of 1001 Tips for Buying and Selling a Home, said the perfect snoratorium should be small, comfortable and fitted with a double bed to encourage occasional visits from a compassionate wife. "Snore rooms are not on everyone's must-have list, but those who need them are very grateful," he said.
Pierre Stooss, a leading Hollywood estate agent, said many celebrities were converting a guest room into a snoring room: "Sometimes it just starts off as a temporary measure, but then word spreads and now everyone with the space wants one. The key is making it as silent as you can, both inside and outside.
"Some rooms have fish tanks to cover the noise and soothe the snorer. One millionaire, a studio lawyer, told me than he could not put a price on sleep — and a more peaceful marriage."
Sometimes a padded room is not enough. Helena Bonham Carter, 45, told the Radio Times that the snores of her boyfriend Tim Burton, the film director, explained why they lived in two houses knocked together in north London. "Tim does snore and that is an element. We have tried lots of remedies that don't work. He has a deviated septum and doesn't want an operation," she said.
For some, only a snoratorium will keep the domestic peace. Last week Judith Sheindlin, 68, known to daytime television viewers as Judge Judy and who earns $850,000 a day from her show, said she had invested some of her fortune in a snoratorium at her 23-acre estate in Connecticut. "We've had a snoring room since we moved out of a studio apartment. It's just civilised."
http://in.news.yahoo.com/worth-losing-sleep-over-000000636.html
