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"Helen Mirren Taylor Hackford\nA Look Back at the Actress and the Director in their New Orleans Bungalow\nThe house, \"filled with bits and pieces of New Orleans,\" said Hackford, \"reflects what we love about the city.\" He has premiered five of his movies there, including White Nights, which united him and Mirren, and An Officer and a Gentleman.\nThe couple's former house in the French Quarter, which they acquired after spending time in Baton Rouge, opened off a courtyard. \"I find New Orleans very peaceful,\" said Mirren. \"One end of Bourbon Street is\u2014what can I say?\u2014Bourbon Street, but most of it is wonderful houses.\"\n\"New Orleans is our escape from Los Angeles and the film industry,\" observed director Taylor Hackford (with his wife, actress Helen Mirren, in 1998).\nAmong the artworks in the living area is a 17th-century English portrait.\nA mid-19th-century mahogany daybed divides the dining and living areas. \"Helen tends to go for more rococo stuff,\" explained Hackford.\nThe couple discovered the circa 1800 Mallard bed, signed by C. Lee, in the master bedroom at a plantation sale in Vicksburg, Mississippi. \"At that time, for a black craftsman to be allowed to sign his work was really something,\" noted Mirren. \"I would never have that bed in California. It belongs here.\"\nGreen walls, said Hackford, \"create a cool, dark refuge from the unbearably hot summers.\"\nA Louis Philippe style bed occupies the guest room."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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