Want to live like Cameron Diaz? Then swap homes
From Bob Tourtellotte

LOS ANGELES—He can’t guarantee a date with Cameron Diaz or Jude Law but Ed Kushins can promise you will live like they do — in the movies, anyway.
Kushins founded HomeExchange.com where members list their homes to swap with other individuals for vacations, and his site is featured in new movie “The Holiday,” a romantic comedy starring Diaz, Law, Kate Winslet and Jack Black.
“You might not get Cameron Diaz...but you can take a look at any city in any country and see homes every bit as nice as the one Cameron Diaz lives in,” said Kushins. In “The Holiday,” which was written and directed by Nancy Meyers (“Private Benjamin,” “Something’s Gotta Give”), Diaz plays a Hollywood executive who learns her lover slept with another woman. A continent and an ocean away in London, Kate Winslet is a writer pining for a man she can never marry. Unlucky in love, both decide it is time to take a vacation, so they go to HomeExchange.com and swap Diaz’s luxurious spread in Los Angeles and Winslet’s country cottage in the Cotswolds. Far away from home each falls in love.
Sound far fetched?
Kushins said it’s not.
He began his Los Angeles-based service as a paper directory in 1992 but moved it onto the Web in the late 1990s and it has grown dramatically.
HomeExchange.com now boasts 14,000 members with homes in over 110 countries. The most listings are in the United States with 4,700, but there are some 1,400 listings in France, 500 in England, nearly 1000 in Australia, and the list goes on.