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Daily News editor to be named today
Rumor mill favors Carolina Garcia, a former Chicano activist who is now the executive editor at the Monterey Herald. Expect to hear officially sometime after 10 am.
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Vanity Fair's man at the Pellicano trial
On the witness stand, not in the media seats. After hearing the testimony of Condé Nast security consultant Wayne Reynolds, who's also a "close associate of and a former audio technician for" Pellicano, David Carr asks: "why would Condé Nast hire him?" NYT
Murder moratorium stats
Two homicides in Los Angeles, one in Monterey Park, 13 shootings in all across L.A. County during the 40 hours of peace. KNBC
Also: Stats back up Bratton on murder and race, but he still gets criticized. LAT
Times has UCLA's number on hospital records
Charles Ornstein broke another story out of the UCLA Medical Center, this one that the employee who snooped on Farrah Fawcett's medical records also gained access to those of Maria Shriver and dozens of others before being fired. LAT
L.A. anti-density warrior
Marc Haefele chastens Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's critiques of the way the affordable housing card is being played to get dubious projects built. Sunday Opinion
More Clooney praise
This week's New Yorker profiles George Clooney and opens with him at home in L.A. with girlfriend Sarah Larson: "Clooney is America’s national flirt, a pitchman on talk shows and red carpets who, against the background hum of the world’s lust and envy, is lightly ironic, clever, and self-deprecating, with furrowed brow and bobbing head, and a gyration in the lower jaw suggesting something being moved around under his tongue." TNY
One item that wouldn't run in Geffen's Times
Roy Rivenburg's tongue-in-cheek proposals for closing the state's budget gap include erecting a prison next to David Geffen's Malibu beach house: "Alternative sites would be considered only if Geffen paid a $1-billion processing fee." Sunday Opinion
It has come to this
Nikki Finke is one of the finalists for this year's Time 100 and, why the hell not, she's serving as her own campaign manager. Deadline Hollywood Daily
The seafood you eat...
Probably spent a couple of days in one of the seediest areas of Downtown. Downtown News
What got into Lewis Segal?
Couple of reader letters take issue with the dance critic's harsh swan-song review of "Swan Lake" at the Music Center. LAT
Museum of Neon Art gets a home
The displaced museum has settled, for now, at 136 W. 4th St. in downtown's Old Bank District. Downtown News
Acres of Books could lose its home
The owners agreed last week to sell the Long Beach Boulevard site to the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency, and may not relocate. LAT