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One more Her Ex reflection
Rip Rense attended last week's Los Angeles Herald Examiner reunion, but he found it too surreal and disorienting to see his old colleagues — and...
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A corpse in NoHo, and the mayor's not home
Detectives Deland and Gallardo drive to Malibu to give Celeste the bad news: her husband died in the restroom of a North Hollywood theater, the...
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Trying to Love New York
revelation of the flat Los Angeles maze, the sweep of downtown, ringed by mountains. New York's rigid grids of streets and avenues could never compare.
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Two Old Ink Slingers Go To Taco Bell
Herb settled into the hard plastic seat and unwrapped his chalupa. “There’s no fucking way you can tell me that Daffy Duck was drawn better than Tom and Jerry.” Sol bit into his Burrito Supreme. “No contest. There was a realism to the animation in Tom and Jerry, in case you…
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UTA Partner Defects To Endeavor
Marc Korman was United Talent's most junior partner, one of 20, and one of six TV lit agents at the tenpercentery. Now he's jumping to Endeavor talent agency where I'm told he's joining several good friends. Korman had been part of the UTA television department since 2002, representing…
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Amatures…
What was with the audio and camera work during the “Idol” group-song tonight?? Mics weren’t working, the camera started panning off (and then back to) people during their solos… Oh, and Kelli Pickler: You’re cute and all, but don’t slap the microphone like that!…
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In Case You Missed It
Watch all 37 minutes of the brilliance right here: Tags: Obama Speach, Primary, raceShare This
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Well That’s A Weird Coincidence…
Someone committed suicide at Mel Gibson’s house! And it wasn’t his new pal Britney “Danger to Herself and Others” Spears… Here’s the scoop: Mel G is getting an addition put on his home near Malibu (where, you’ll recall, he is “the king”). This…
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A Sneak Preview of the High Minded "Journalism" We Can Look Forward To This Fall!
For months, critics of Hillary Clinton, from John "such a mavericky maverick that he promises his presidency will be exactly like George Bush's" McCain, to our corporate liberal media, have been demanding, with different degrees of credulity, that Hillary release her White House records. …
When Good Pluto Goes Bad
Check this out...Pluto FightAdd to My Profile | More VideosClearly, the kid has done something to seriously piss-off Pluto.The probably-pimpled-teen in the costume is moving at full throttle-- WAY too fast to be moving safely in that dense of a crowd. Imagine the premium Disney would be paying if…
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Extra, Extra: Las Lomas No More
Photo of Century City at dusk by Jonathan Alcom (Sundogg) via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The big news this evening is out of Bakersfield. An Amber Alert issued this morning has been canceled after 9-year-old Zane Newton has been found dead. Have a moment to spare and a MySpace…
Monty joins The Seventh in Python media blitz
Monty Python’s Flying Circus will make its 21st century U.S. television series debut May 26th on BBC America-- just weeks before the world premiere of The Seventh Python movie. BBC America picked up all four seasons of the series (the final season, which John Cleese did not appear in, features…
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Winnetka senior lead officer battles cancer
I got this in my inbox today.... Greetings West Valley Residents; The West Valley Area Police Station is having a fundraiser for two of its own in need of assistance. Sergeants Rachel Raigoza & Kathy Ryan's son Cory have both... I got this in my inbox today.... Greetings West Valley…
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Winnetka senior lead officer battles cancer
I got this in my inbox today.... Greetings West Valley Residents; The West Valley Area Police Station is having a fundraiser for two of its own in need of assistance. Sergeants Rachel Raigoza & Kathy Ryan's son Cory have both... I got this in my inbox today.... Greetings West Valley…
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LAPD union prez takes Bratton to task; calls changes to SWAT "political correctness."
"It would be a tragedy if we were to lose any more SWAT members’ lives because we are aiming for political correctness." That is what Los Angeles Police Protective League President Tim Sands is saying in response to reports that... "It would be a tragedy if we were to lose any more SWAT…
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Guns and homicides in L.A.
In Los Angeles this year, 77 percent of the city's 93 homicides were committed by a firearm. The LAPD and Sheriff's Department confiscate hundreds of them every. And politicians are increasingly seeing restrictions on guns as a way to lower... In Los Angeles this year, 77 percent of the city's 93…
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Aaaaaaah! She Can't Hear! [Short Ends]
newVideoPlayer("marlee1_defamer.flv", 463, 387,""); · "Fabian is my music," Marlee Matlin said, just moments after playing grab-ass with her mambo-champion Dancing with the Stars partner. This suggests to us that her gaydar is about as finely tuned as her hearing. [DWTS] · Set your…
The Photoshop Around The Corner
Most people are probably aware of how difficult a thing it is to satirize something large. One runs the risk of either cutting so broadly as to make the observation meaningless, or being so specific that only those being described will even get the joke. Which is to say, it's a fine line. Not…
Goth Talk With Rumer Willis [A Call To The Bullpen]
boomp3.com The much maligned celebuspawn Rumer Willis attempted unsuccessfully to get into Hollywood club Villa after hearing a rumor about a special Goth themed party featuring a Bauhaus cover band last night. Feeling semi-defeated, Willis then retreated to the Stevie Nicks fan club meeting at…
Developing: Person Falls from Building, Dies on Ventura Blvd
Taken from the 8th Floor of the National Bank Building | Photo by Mitch Oberstein with an iPhone A witness is reporting to LAist that it appears a person has fallen from a building at 14724 Ventura Blvd. in The Village area of Sherman Oaks. "There's streaks of blood and just a sheet covering…
Arnold, Feeling Lucky, Dumps `Dirty Harry' and an In-Law
It must take some real brass ones to fire Clint Eastwood, as Arnold Schwarzenegger just did. But it must have taken Eastwood and Bobby Shriver even bigger ones to stand up to the Governator. Eastwood and Shriver – a Santa...
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Sherri Shepherd Demands To Know: Where Is The 'Idol' Beatles-Mangling Outrage? [Shut Up And Sing]
newVideoPlayer("idolview_defamer.flv", 463, 387,""); After two weeks of witnessing American Idol finalists despoil the beloved compositions of The Beatles' songbook, Sherri Shepherd could sit silent no longer, unleashing on today's The View a blistering condemnation of their shameless,…
College Basketball Game Rick Roll'd
This has nothing to do with LA, other than the fact that certain people on LAist have been Rick Rolling the begeezus out of each other the past few weeks. If you don't know what a Rick Roll is and you've never experienced a two-day long orgasm or won a free iPod, welcome back to the…
In Los Angeles Magazine news
Steve Oney's piece from last June about Iraq war casualty Chris Leon is a National Magazine Awards finalist in profile writing. He shares the...
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Michelle Trachtenberg has proven herself ... [Michelle Trachtenberg]
Michelle Trachtenberg has proven herself the ideal go-to actress for naughty TV guest appearance: When she portrayed Sarah Michelle Gellar's "normal" little sister on Buffy, she had a penchant for kleptomania, on Law & Order: CI, she masterfully outwitted the cops and the media by staging an…
Five years of not-so-straight talk
It's not just the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. It's also the fifth anniversary of misleading or plain wrong statements about it and the war on terror. Here's a few. "This long-term struggle [against terror] became...
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Photos: Lucent Dossier Takes The Do LaB's Events to the Next Level
All photos by Kelly C. Gallamore for LAist. Lucent Dossier is the spectacular LA-based vaudeville circus that highlighted The Do LaB's awesome Lucent L'Amour Valentine's Day party last month. You may have even seen them performing at the official Grammy Awards party (no, that wasn't Cirque…
Brad Grey May Testify Thursday...
I can report that the federal prosecutors in the Pellicano wiretapping trial have told the Paramount chief it's a possibility. Of course, he'll be asked all about the Hollywood private detective, Anthony Pellicano. Pellicano Trial: Michael Fuchs, Brad Grey And Bert Fields Mentioned…
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Payback time
Chief William Bratton has scheduled an 11 am press conference tomorrow with State Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas, the candidate for county Supervisor. They don't officially label...
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LAist Interview: Clinton Sparks
Clinton Sparks smashing it up at Hard Rock Hotel's Body English every Saturday night If you aren't familiar, Clinton Sparks has rapidly risen from the basement of his mother's house in Boston to an elite DJ, producer and on-air personality. Recently, the host of the nationally syndicated…
Craigslist's Carrot Top-Curious Couple [Defamer Connections]
Longtime readers of Defamer know that we like nothing better than to break up the day with a dip into the Defamer Connections basket. This is L.A., however, where every taste and mathematical combination must be accounted for in the worthwhile pursuit of getting one's freak on, and thus requiring…
Nada Surf, David Hadju, Amelie [To Do]
· Fresh off of releasing one of the best albums of this still young year, Nada Surf will be headlining over at the Henry Fonda. If they don't float your boat, try The Vines at the Troubadour or Born Ruffians at the Echo. · ALOUD offers a convo with David Hajdu about his book, The…
Feds Indict Emmy-Winning TV Producer On Charges Of Massive Stock Fraud
Drew Savitch Levin, a currently working Hollywood producer who won both an Emmy and a Cable Ace award and was founder and CEO of the NASDAQ-traded TV production and distribution company Team Communications Co, was indicted in Los Angeles today. A federal grand jury fingered him for allegedly…
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TV Junkie: Wednesday
The 10:00pm slot is hot again tonight but I'm going to have to go with Lewis Black again, that's a great show, maybe Comedy Central has finally figured out what to do with him. In other items, the Nielsen Company, whom I've occasionally reported on/castigated in this column, is inviting LAist…