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- Sumner Redstone's pique at Tom Cruise's, uh, personal style (reported yesterday at LA Biz Observed) broke the basic Hollywood social contract of always — always — lying when you don't like something, Bruce Feirstein says at Native Intelligence. He wonders if a new era has begun:
- Veronique de Turenne wrote for the late Wahine magazine so she was the ideal LA Observed contributor to sample Wet, a new magazine for girl surfers.
- Which actors lead where it counts—at the box office?
- Former Lt. Gov. Mike Curb donated $10 million to his alma mater, Cal State Northridge.
- Baaaad day for shareholders in KB Home.
- Bet you can't guess the fastest-growing company in Los Angeles. Mark Lacter knows.
Well, if there’s one other thing I know about Hollywood, it’s that as sure as one studio has a hit with a comic book, or a 60’s TV show – or as soon as one group of executives goes white water rafting, or an executive buys a Prius, or a even home in Idaho – the others will surely follow.So after decades of polite lies, I can’t help but wonder if my friend Sumner is going to start a trend here. Consider the following: