• Mug of GibsonThat's Mel Gibson's booking photo, posted minutes ago at LATimes.com. Gibson is supposedly in rehab already for his alcoholic binge, Orin Aviv of Disney counsels Jewish community tolerance, Kim Masters says that "given Gibson's Holocaust-denying history, it's hard to argue that he deserves the benefit of the doubt," Rabbi Marvin Hier talks to Nikki Finke, Christopher Hitchens calls Gibson a real anti-Semite, Arianna Huffington declares a defining Hollywood moment, the LASD says there was no cover-up, and from TMZ.com — the new stars of the online media universe — footage of a public service spot Gibson shot for the sheriff's in 2002 and the revelation that he had been stopped twice before for reckless driving but was allowed to leave by Malibu sheriff's.
  • Ed Boyer has moved on from the Daily Journal, where he landed as city editor in January.
  • Newsroom gossip has the L.A. Times getting closer (again) to moving the editorial and op-ed pages to the front section.
  • Tommy Lee's helicopter landed on a Los Angeles street to fetch the rocker at home. Yeah, you can't do that. The pilot has been charged.

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