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Afternoon snacks
- Aquaman the movie? John Horn reports on the Times website that the real Ari Emanuel is at the center of real "informal talks" on a movie deal that parallels the plot line on "Entourage." LAT
- The Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Turki al-Faisal, is cocooning at the family estate in Beverly Hills for the summer and watching movies, Nikki Finke says. Deadline Hollywood
- The Jewish Journal reports on the Joel Bellman letter to ACLU exec Ramona Ripston and the reverberations. JJ
- Radio station KFYE-FM up by Fresno has switched from Christian music to "porn radio." AP
- At LA Biz Observed, Mark Lacter says it's unlikely that Los Angeles will demand that big-box retailers pay a living wage, as Chicago has done. LABO
- A little internal note, to stem the erroneous gossip. For about 36 hours staffers at the Los Angeles Times were blocked from readng LA Observed, but the culprit was my hosting service reacting to a traffic surge, not M.E. Doug Frantz's pique over these recent postings.
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| Forget plastics, the real action these days is arranging going-out-of-business sales.
| Louis Verdad was one of L.A.'s hottest designers, but he had little idea of how to run a business.
| Without referencing its recent layoff, the Ventura County Star's editor says the suburban LA paper is now "more streamlined and, in many ways, much more efficient."
| We stripped the Indians of their ponies, and now we're doing it to ourselves.
| When the sun looks like that, there's a big fire somewhere regardless of whether we see or smell smoke.
Lee Abrams, Tribune Company's chief innovation officer, doesn’t seem too impressed with the Los Angeles Times. That’s the feeling I got when he appeared at the Los Angeles Press Club.
Seven or fifteen minutes from now I can definitively say I didn't hear the sound of sirens.
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