The unwdcomewagon hen you move into a new neighborhood, you can check out the schools, the grocery store and property taxes.</p><p> But you can't really know what your neighbors will be like until you settle in.</p><p> You're even rnore helpless when folks move in next door - all you can do is grin and bear it when they come over to chat or borrow a cup of sugar and decide to stay for dinner.</p><p> Not Samuel L.</p><p> Jackson.</p><p> In "Lakeview Terrace," opening Friday, he's a racist LAPD cop who will do anything to drive away the interracial couple that has moved in next door.</p><p> Here are six more examples of annoying, tiresome and downright frightening neighbors.</p><p> REAR WTNDOW Cr954) iln neighbors: The ultimate spy-onJour- neighbor movie, with Jimmy Stewart having a lield day peeking in on the lives of a Miss Lonelyhearts, a bickering couple, a young swinger and ... what was that? MurdeP Stay or scl? Definitely stay.</p><p> A chopped-up body is no biggie compared to the fabulous, entertaining view.</p><p> NEIGHBORSO9SI) Tfte neigftboc: In a wonderful example of playing against type, John Belushi is a timid, quiet man whose new neighbor - an over-the-top Dan Aykroyd - drives him bonkers with attention.</p><p> Stay or sem Stay.</p><p> Aykroyd's wife (Cathy Moriarty) is very, very friendly, and that makes up for a lot of annoyance.</p><p> ROSEMARYS BABY(1968) The neighbors: Surely Mia Fanow and John Cassavetes can put up with the eccentric and pushy Ruth Gordon.</p><p> After all, they've moved into the Dakota (renamed the Bramford! Stay or sC? Gordon's a Satanist and has impregnated Farrow with the spawn of Lucifer?Sigh.</p><p> Sell, we guess, but ifs a close call - who gives up an apartment in the Dakota? THE'BURBS0989) Ifte neighboe How can you trust new neighbors named the Klopeks? Really, what kind of name is that, anyway? Tom Hanks is goofing around at home on vacation and decides the mysterious Klopeks need investigating.</p><p> Stay or sell? Stay, but your neighbors might move.</p><p> We have met the nosy, prying, annoying neighbor, and sometimes... it is us.</p><p> When you're running down the people who live nearby, keep in mind you might not be such a treat, either.</p><p> ARLTNGTON ROAD0999) Ilrc nefuhbors: Jeff Bridges has been a bit... edgy since his wife, an FBI agent, died in a Waco-style tragedy.</p><p> His new neighbor (Tim Robbins) seems like a nice wakeup call until Bridges decides that Robbins is a white-supremacist terrorist himself.</p><p> Stry or se[? Sell, and move into a mental institution.</p><p> Really, what is it about neighbors that can drive us bonkers? Some people need to live in a cabin - like Ted Kaczynski! DUPLEX(2OO3) Tte neighbors: Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore have discovered the perfect Brooklyn brownstone.</p><p> Too bad the elderly lady living in a rent-controlled apartment on the top floor is the neighborfrom Hell, who plays in a brass band - and thafs her good quality.</p><p> Stay or selF Stay.</p><p> Homicide is a small price to pay for the perfect New York City home.</p><p> Just make sure Jimmy Stewart isn't peering out of his window with binoculars when you do the old biddy in.</p><p> Michael GilE
