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Don't miss posts from the weekend on the DreamWorks sale, the QM2, Richard Pryor's passing and a little media roundup. On to today:
♦ The state Supremes nixed a stay of execution for Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams.
It's in the hands of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who held his clemency decision until the last day.
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♦ Catch-up day on the DreamWorks sale. Sharon Waxman's New York Times folo opens with the deal-day scene at Steven Spielberg's Pacific Palisades home. She gets weekend interviews with Paramount's Brad Grey and David Geffen, who says of the failed talks with G.E.-owned NBC-Universal: "Dealing with G.E. is unpleasant and difficult under any circumstances...[Universal apparently thought] we had no choice and were going to squeeze us and squeeze us." Also: LAT, Variety, THR
♦ Monday's NYT also has a feature on the re-creation of Ground Zero for Oliver's Stone film on 9/11 in the old Hughes hangar at the east end of the Playa Vista land where DreamWorks never built the studio.
♦ One of Richard Pryor's daughters, the actress Rain Pryor, talks about daddy on her website: "No one around my father understood what MS was and the effects it would have on him." His official site is still titled I Ain't Dead Yet, M*therf@ck%r! Tabloid Baby blogger Burt Kearns predicts a Pryor family feud now that he's gone.
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Channel 7 reporter Ric Romero has been a target of ridicule by the regulars at FARK.com ever since his story last October discovering the, uh, new phenomenon of blogs. They piled on again last week after his stories about holiday safety and mold in houses. One of the commenters posted: "There really is a Ric Romero! I thought he was just a myth." Indeed: Wikipedia even has an entry on Romero's role as the Farkers' poster boy for vacuousness.
Channel 7 reporter Ric Romero has been a target of ridicule by the regulars at FARK.com ever since his story last October discovering the, uh, new phenomenon of blogs. They piled on again last week after his stories about holiday safety and mold in houses. One of the commenters posted: "There really is a Ric Romero! I thought he was just a myth." Indeed: Wikipedia even has an entry on Romero's role as the Farkers' poster boy for vacuousness.♦ Trafficdocumentary.com, the website by brothers Matt and Jordan Valenti we told you about in October, makes the centerpiece of today's Daily News.
♦ LAT reporter Myron Levin's coverage of the thimerosal vaccine controversy comes off well in the latest Columbia Journalism Review.
♦ Chief Bratton likes the idea of equipping every police car with video cameras.
♦ Fellow enviromental activists honored Ellen Stern Harris, who is 76 and has cancer.
♦ About a million Californians live in potential tsunami zones, a new report says.
Also: Last week was busy around here. The exclusive on the New York Times blogging memo got picked up all over the place. Here it is with some of the more noteworthy posts from the past seven days, in case you need to catch up. The full archive, as always, is here:
Times exits Chatsworth
Why there's no LAT labor writer
Why Kings fans love Elisha
Defamer observed
Editor ankles Hollywood Reporter
The Getty gains a new flack
What the NYT really thinks about bloggers
Barbra's so mad at the Times
Laura Chick sticks around
About that salad at Cafe Pinot...
Why there's no LAT labor writer
Why Kings fans love ElishaDefamer observed
Editor ankles Hollywood Reporter
The Getty gains a new flack
What the NYT really thinks about bloggers
Barbra's so mad at the Times
Laura Chick sticks around
About that salad at Cafe Pinot...
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