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Twelve you may have missed
It was a good week across all the LA Observed blogs. Here is an editor's dozen of notable news, scoops and observations:
- David Zahniser is the best reporter at City Hall, Los Angeles magazine proclaims.
- Aaron Sorkin's "Studio 60" is fading so fast it won't air next Monday on NBC.
- The DA and the extra-terrestrials (and Allison Margolin) are the talk of the legal world.
- Huell Howser meets citizen journalism via LA Observed reader's video camera.
- Scary report on staph and some new columns at the LA Weekly.
- At training camp with the Lakers.
- Country music returns to L.A. radio dial.
- New blood at LACMA includes Michael Crichton.
- Bruce Karatz's good old boy connection.
- Tom Freston walks away from Viacom with $84 million in severance, bonuses and other rewards for getting fired.
- Denise Hamilton meets early special effects wiz Ray Harryhausen.
- Cory Lidle's media coverage as viewed from Nashville.
Plus: A week's worth of Morning Buzz and media people news, and an adventure in weird L.A. geography observed by Veronique at Here in Malibu: A British tabloid located Jennifer Aniston's new pad as "beachfront property in Beverly Hills."
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| The documentary “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired” is being cited in the director's request to dismiss the molestation case against him.
| A mythology has taken hold about the financial disaster: That only a select group of economists and money managers saw it coming.
| Hennessey + Ingalls Art and Architecture bookstore opens a branch in Hollywood this week.
| Bush sought to "make the pie higher," but President-elect Barack Obama says it's time "to make sure we're growing the pie …"
| Legendary 19th-century photographer Carleton Watkins, who is the subject of an exhibition at the Getty, traveled hard miles around California with a simple motto: stand "where the view looks best."
| For every dollar I put into my first car, I got back a lifelong education in auto repair, and this disease.
| Erin Kaplan responds
Here’s a way city hall can strong arm the Dodgers into paying at least part of the cost of providing public transportation to the stadium during baseball season.
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