• 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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