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Morning Buzz: Monday 12.11.06
L.A. film critics pick 'Iwo Jima'
Clint Eastwood's World War II drama Letters From Iwo Jima won the best movie nod from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, less than a week after also taking the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. LAT, Variety
Getty to return Greek antiquities
The rare funerary wreath and a marble statue dating to about 400 BC are displayed prominently at the Getty Villa. LAT, NYT
Restoring the Triforium
Why? is the question.
AFTER THE JUMP: Politics, media, police beat and other notes for a Monday
Politics
School fight heads to court
Rival lawyers Thomas Saenz and Kevin Reed "have been like ideological twins, skipping along close parallel career paths that led from Ivy League law schools to high-level civil rights litigation," writes Bob Sipchen in an LAT advancer to Friday's hearing over the constitutionality of AB 1381. Now they are on opposite sides: Saenz for Mayor Villaraigosa, Reed for the school board.
Monday columns
Orlov/Daily News: Padilla and Perrata, Bamattre dissed at fire commission, Cerrell's holiday party moves uptown, Julie Butcher's CD.
Hymon/LAT: Home Depot fights in Glassell Park and Sunland-Tujunga, and the Council goes to Reno.
Hymon/LAT: Home Depot fights in Glassell Park and Sunland-Tujunga, and the Council goes to Reno.
Media
Libertarian day at Current
The front page of Current in yesterday's LAT featured pieces by Virginia Postrel, the former editor-in-chief of Reason, and Tim Cavanaugh, who used to work there. Mark Lacter reads the section.
Cocktails with funny women
The NYT hosts Jenny Bicks, creator of ABC's “Men in Trees,” and a few friends at the Sunset Tower Hotel.
Christians in Hollywood
The NYT takes a ride in the desert with novelist Anne Rice and producer David Kirkpatrick, both born-again and determined to make Christian movies.
Carrie Fisher speaks
She's Claude Brodesser-Akner's guest on "The Business" on KCRW at 2:30 pm.
Police beat
Brazen mid-Valley burglar
A man broke into three apartments in North Hills and Panorama City within an hour early Saturday morning and tried to assault young children before being scared off. DN
Noted
De-trashing the toy district
Merchants are getting citations and fines in a crackdown on boxes and other discards, the Downtown News says.
Elizabeth Stromme obituary
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| He was a regular at a Palm Beach shop called Trillion, where you could spend $7,500 on a sports jacket.
| Still-higher gas prices, Krugman says Obama plan not enough, Katzenberg losses reportedly total $20 million, and better KB results (sort of).
| The gel-filled wrist support I purchased from Amazon.com arrived today ... in a really, REALLY, big box.
| Eventually the meter-revenue claim becomes bureaucratic doublespeak for "meter-maid revenue."
| The MTA's Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive jumps into Web 2.0 with enthusiasm, with Flickr photos and YouTube clips.
| Chuck Todd and his goatee
Peter Kaye's memoir, Contrarian, is both the story of his career as a political writer and the downward slide of the paper he worked for, the San Diego Union-Tribune
At the top of Chicken Corner's wish list for quite some time has been a bookstore -- an independent shop...
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