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Striving To Enter Through a Narrowing Gate
Thought y’all might care to take a gander at an appreciation Joseph Mailander wrote at Street Hassle yesterday regarding the series of posts about my recent return visit to L.A.: I have now known Rodger Jacobs for about four years—a college degree’s worth of time. His body of…
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'Speed Racer' Crashes & Burns To Become First Summer Bomb: 'Iron Man' Big No. 1
FRIDAY PM: Here are very early numbers for Friday's domestic box office gross... Marvel's Iron Man still the easy No. 1 blockbuster. -61% for $15M tonight. Looks platinum for Paramount distributed pic: $50+M weekend and cume $177M. Fox's What Happens in Vegas #2 tonight with $6.8M for…
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DRAMA! David O. Russell Film On Hold? Jessica Biel & Jake Gyllenhaal Sidelined?
EXCLUSIVE: I'm told by knowledgeable sources that David O. Russell's indie pic Nailed may have been put on hold yesterday. It's a risque political comedy starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel who sources say are standing by to see if the movie can continue to completion. The…
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Extra, Extra: 7 Days a Week
Photo by neonspecs via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Ed Fuentes at View from a Loft reports that as the LAPD preps for an appeal "to the community at large, Councilmember Ed Reyes' staff asked if bloggers can help get the word out as well" regarding a 21-year-old suspect blamed…
Worldfest if Back on Saturday
Photo by phogel via Flickr After a one year hiatus, one of the best green festivals, Worldfest, is back. Two years ago, the solar-powered festival scheduled near Earth Day was a gem among the numerous green events around the city. Located at Woodley Park in Encino, steps away from the…
Send (Endings, The Remix)
That motherfucker, she fumed, I’m so pissed at him that if I can very well envision living out the rest of my life without ever speaking to Trace again. “But you wouldn’t want that, would you, Josephine?” the unyielding voice in her head barked like a dog from hell.…
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Primetime Pilot Panic: Fox Sitcom 'Back To You' Cancelled; 'The Inn' Picked Up
FRIDAY 8:30 PM: Fox's 2007-2008 primetime season sitcom Back To You starring Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton as formerly married TV co-anchors has been cancelled. I've just been told that the network's comedy pilot The Inn (20th Century Fox TV/ Reveille/Principato-Young Entertainment)…
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CD Review: Sunny Day Sets Fire -"Summer Palace"
Artist: Sunny Day Sets Fire Album: Summer Palace Label: IAMSOUND Records Release Date: July 8th 2008 Listen to "Mandarin": London-based band Sunny Day Sets Fire, whose name makes me think of both Sunny Day Real Estate and Alexisonfire, (but who don't sound like either), are certainly…
29-Day Giving Challenge: Day 26 — DVDs of the first season of Sundance’s “Big Ideas for a Small Planet”
[Part of my challenge to give something away every day for 29 days] So I’ve already given away a couple screener DVDs for this season of Sundance’s “Big Ideas for a Small Planet.” But today I was cleaning up a bit and realized I had most of the DVDs from last season too! …
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Boutique West Hollywood Hotel: Palihouse Boutique Hotel in Los Angeles
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Saturday is Pangea Day
The idea for Pangea Day was inspired by filmmaker Jehane Noujaim's acceptance speech after winning the TED Prize at the 2006 TED Conference. The global event begins this Saturday at 11:00 a.m. PDT with events in six cities including Los Angeles (Sony Pictures in Culver City) and numerous…
No Pellicano Jury Verdict Yet; (...But You Can Judge This Letter)
The jury in the federal trial of Hollywood P.I. Anthonmy Pellicano and 4 co-defendants still hasn't come to a decision after its first full week of deliberating. In the meantime, I thought you'd want to see this letter sent by Bert Fields' longtime pal and Greenberg Glusker law partner Bonnie…
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Join the World’s Largest Fair Trade Coffee Break tomorrow
Tomorrow, May 10, is World Fair Trade Day! And in celebration, World’s Largest Fair Trade Coffee Break happens tomorrow afternoon. Technically, the event happens at noon on the west coast — but any time in the afternoon will do to count towards the total. So caffeinate wit fellow fair…
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Behind Closed Doors: Playmate of the Year
AP Photo/Matt Sayle Exclusive parties are thrown all the time at the Playboy Mansion, but yesterday's luncheon was a bigger event for Playboy -- Playmate of the Year. This time around, the annual event's honoree is January 2007's model, the 22-year-old Jayde Nicole. In the 26 years the…
Janice Hahn vs. Fox 11
Councilwoman Hahn responds on her blog to the Fox 11 report that sided with two cops suing the city and tied Hahn to the mother...
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O'Reilly vs. McCain on immigration
When John McCain launched his Spanish-language website earlier this week, I commented that immigration would be a tough issue for him during the general election (and possibly problematic for Democrats too). Even Bill O'Reilly gave him a gentle jab when...
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Just in time for the R-Kelly trial...
Comes Beyonce Knowles' line of tartwear for little girls. Where to start with how incredibly inappropriate this is? The come-hither pumps on preschoolers (OK, maybe they're really 7 or 8 years old), or the tight, hip-hugging jeans? Once upon a...
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Paradigm Hiring A Lot Of Ex-ICM Agents
A major player in the Reality TV business, ICM agent Steve Wohl, has left that tenpercentery to head up the Reality TV division at Paradigm bringing with him America's Next Top Model Ken Mok and other clients. Wohl decided to jump after he went from head of ICM's Reality TV department, to…
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Blackmail, extortion ... the old badger game
Earlier, I wrote about some of Los Angeles' oldest murder cases from the turn of the century. In one of them, a man named John Slovinski shot himself with a shotgun. He had been arraigned in a case involving attempted... Earlier, I wrote about some of Los Angeles' oldest murder cases from the turn…
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Pia Maffei's 3d instruction website
Pia Maffei is one of the top 3d max instructors in the country
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Photo Essay: Last Night's Downtown Art Walk
A cool and rather large crowd of art lovers attended last night's fun Downtown Art Walk; enjoying an evening of great works, good music & yummy food. Next month's artwalk is scheduled for Thursday, June 12th. Check out www.downtownartwalk.com for more info and if you need more reason to…
Friday desk-clearing
Lunchtime brawls at Locke High in South Los Angeles involved hundreds of students and led to four arrests, as well as a campus lockdown....
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Lindsay Lohan And The Case Of The Fur Burglar [Dirt Sandwich]
newVideoPlayer("ds14_def.flv", 463, 387,""); You know what sounds good right about now? No, besides a few glasses of Glenmorangie. Yep, that's right, a mouthwatering Dirt Sandwich. Defamer's resident Sandwich Artist, Molly McAleer, spent all week combing through oodles and oodles of high-caliber…
Primetime Pilot Panic: Still More News
Here are more updates: I'm assured that The Inn (FBC/20th Century Fox TV/ Reveille) which was directed by Jason Bateman "is indeed good at FBC, and it screened best." Bruce Helford is gone from the Bernie Mac starrer Starting Under (WBTV/Mohawk), so the Fox comedy now needs a new showrunner.…
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Metro Goes Facebook with 'Subway to the Sea'
The Westside Extension effort, commonly dubbed as the "Subway to the Sea," went social networking/Web 2.0 style a few weeks ago with a group on Facebook. This is the first time a specific project has done outreach like this and word on the transit street is that more project managers may be…
NYT Music Industry Reporter Laid Off
I've just been told that Jeff Leeds, the Los Angeles-based music industry reporter who was poached by The New York Times from the Los Angeles Times back in 2004, is now a victim of the Gray Lady's ongoing round of layoffs. I feel badly for him because he's always had a good handle on his beat.…
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Man, It's Gotten So Bad That I Have To Crash Premieres Nowadays [A Call To The Bullpen]
boomp3.com After Nikki Finke declared Lindsay Lohan to be a Hollywood pariah, Lohan's invite to a party in West Hollywood was retracted. So, to show the promoters — along with the rest of Hollywood — that the old girl still has it, Lohan sneaked into the party six hours before it…
Downtown WIFI Getting a Big Boost
An existing WIFI radio at Pershing Square gets taken down, to be replaced with a newer model. Photo by Eric Richardson. New radios went up this week for a big expansion of the ExperienceLA's Downtown WIFI network. Formerly just at Pershing Square, the new push brings the network out to…
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Evade Train Fare & the Police Might Shoot
A man who tried to get away from Transit Sheriff's Deputies on a Metrolink Train yesterday was shot at, but not hit. Police were checking fares in Norwalk when one man split after the train doors opened. A foot chase ensued where at one point, according to police, the suspect turned toward…
Jessica Alba Is Pregnant, Hungry and Unwilling To Wait In Line [Hollywood PrivacyWatch]
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week (depending on volume), so send them in early and often—without them, we'll surely be forced to endure another Pellicano trial! Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or…
Welcome LAPD Recruits!
Chief William J. Bratton welcomed the Department’s 3A-08 recruit class at an early morning meeting today at the Ahmanson Recruit Training Center. Motivated by the motto “To make a Difference, you got to be the difference,” Chief Bratton inspired the...
Universal Signs Gore Verbinski to Direct Bioshock
Today news broke that Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski is slated to direct the film adaptation of Bioshock, widely heralded as the best video game of 2007. This comes at an especially interesting time considering parent company Take Two Interactive (also parent to Rockstar…
Bev Hills goes green
Over on the near-Eastside, we have pizza coming out of our ears. The Westsiders, they get nice healthy salads. In Culver City alone, they've got Tender Greens, Leaf and the Point. Clearly the perennial lines out the door at Tender Greens were not lost on restaurateurs, and now Greenleaf has opened…
Thanks to This Week's Advertisers
We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist. A Wolf at the Table, the new memoir from Augusten Burroughs, in stores now. Rilo Kiley, performing at The Greek Theater on June 18th. Busted Tees, which introduces three new designs a week. If you're interested in…
Liv Tyler Gets Separated, But Her Rebound Prospects Look Strong [Liv Lovers]
After all that hullabaloo following Liv Tyler’s missing wedding ring (and missing date) at Monday’s Costume Institute Gala, the dimpled rocker spawn has officially announced that she and husband of five years Royston Langdon "have confirmed their separation." Whether this means those divorce…
Times responds to broadcasters
"In fact, we made no errors," John T. O'Loughlin, President/Targeted Media and SVP/Marketing for Los Angeles Times Media Group, writes to the head of the...
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