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Eyewitness News goes hi-def, James Frey has a few words for the LAT, the Downtown News loses patience with Villaraigosa and a former mayor goes in for a tuneup—plus a profile of the new museum mogul in town and a lot more after the jump. And if you live in the hills, remember to move your car. It's a red flag day due to the dry winds.
Now since it's Monday, here are a dozen goodies from the past week:
Exclusively here: UFW series reporter leaving the Times
New Times memo to the Weekly: Here we come
L.A. has its journalists of the year
KTLA scores the video of a suspicious cop shooting
Charles Lane turns 101—and you know his face
Anthony Pellicano in the news again
We had West covered every which way (and Pajamas too.)
The Weekly picks up a good City Hall reporter
Pierce O'Donnell takes a fall
New Times memo to the Weekly: Here we come
L.A. has its journalists of the year
KTLA scores the video of a suspicious cop shooting
Charles Lane turns 101—and you know his face
Anthony Pellicano in the news again
We had West covered every which way (and Pajamas too.)
The Weekly picks up a good City Hall reporter
Pierce O'Donnell takes a fall
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♦ Channel 7 this weekend became the first L.A. station to beam the news in high-definition, Ron Fineman says.
♦ The Times pokes around James Frey's patchy Hollywood resume and gets a quote from the fabricator: "All I wanted to do was write a book that would help people get through tough times, and I never meant for any of this to happen, and I'm sorry that it has."
♦ Rick Orlov rounds up Mayor Villaraigosa's week in the national spotlight and says the highlight may have been a mention by Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show." And apparently Downtown News editor Jon Regardie has had just about enough of the Villaraigosa energy and media show.
♦ Former Mayor Richard Riordan had heart bypass surgery over the weekend and is resting (un)comfortably At St. John's in Santa Monica. He apparently was able to watch the Super Bowl.
♦ Fire Chief William Bamattre wants $500,000 to open an internal affairs unit to clamp down on discipline problems.
♦ New LACMA boss Michael Govan, who is 42, is profiled in the LAT.
♦ Laura Holson interviews Brad Grey in the NYT about the stuff they're saying about his Paramount Studios.
♦ Film crews pestered the locals for 6,154 shooting days in the downtown area last year, which was actually less than in 2004.
♦ Tabloid Baby says that Patrick McDermott was a beard for Olivia Newton John, not her lover, and the blog thinks something is fishy with his unexplained disappearance eight months ago.
♦ Ross Johnson joins Russian director Timur Bekmambetov for a margarita at L'Ermitage on the New York Times' dime.
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