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The seaside city has asked Ken Starr, dean of the Pepperdine Law School, to convene media and legal experts to help draft an ordinance that would control paparazzi swarms around local celebs. They're talking about possible buffer zones and a tax on the photogs. "We're coming up on another summer season. Let's hope we are not in store for another tsunami of paparazzi," Mayor Pamela Conley Ulich says. "Maybe they will think twice before shoving a camera in your face." Starr has plenty of experience in the tabloid realm as the prosecutor in the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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| AEG Live, promoter of the Michael Jackson shows in London, stands to recoup a big chunk of its investment, thanks to insurance and two golden opportunities.
| Banks were far more accommodating in 1992, the last time warrants had to be issued, and that laissez-faire stance might have delayed cutting a deal.
| News of Michael Jackson's death -- along with about a dozen satellite trucks -- prompted a gathering outside UCLA Medical Center on Thursday.
The "Right of Way" rewrite is underway. Collaborator Marvin Wolf has already refined the project down to two documents, including a 25-page treatment, while finding time to knock out a novel or two on the side.
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