Starting to fill in nicely
Steve Harvey's latest column of quirky bits
George Clooney's photo spread in the November issue of Vanity Fair was shot in the garden of the late newspaper matriarch Dorothy Chandler's home, Los Tiempos, at Fifth and Lorraine in Windsor Square. Country music stars were shot at a bunch of local locations, including Topanga Beach (Kenny Chesney, in a hammock), Olvera Street (Wynonna Judd, in a convertible), Universal Studios' backlot (Willie Nelson, Shelby Lynne and Shooter Jennings on hogs), the Sunset Plaza Best Western (Keith Urban, on the floor) and Ventura Farms in Thousand Oaks (Julie Roberts, on a red bicycle.)- In the November Atlantic, Ann Louise Bardach reports on enduring suspicions about who was behind the first case of airline terrorism in the Americas. They're calling it "a tale of thwarted dreams, frustrated justice, and murder in the sky." Virginia Postel also has a piece on photographer Julius Shulman: The Iconographer.
- Redesign time at the Los Angeles Business Journal. Robert Landry, formerly of the New Orleans Times-Picayune and a designer at the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, joins as the paper's first art director.
- The fourth video in the "Chad Vader" series is scheduled to debut Wednesday on ABC's "Good Morning America."
- When 200 zombies descended on Hollywood Boulevard, Lucinda Michele Knapp was there for the LA Alternative website.
- The city of Beverly Hills is making noise about wanting the subway and prefers stations at Wilshire/La Cienega and Wilshire/Rodeo Drive.
- Joseph Wambaugh's morning mention of Mae West living on Rossmore Avenue brought a visit from MaeWest.com.
- Tower Records clerk: "We had better sales before we were going out of business."
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