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Afternoon snacks
- 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:
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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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