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December 31, 2007
As we cleaned our plates and headed toward dessert and coffee, the DA put the question to me: “So, who are you going to vote for in the primary?”
December 25, 2007
Lower-level treat of the year
December 20, 2007
This plan promises to be groundbreaking only to the degree that it models how not to address the health care crisis.
The holiday parties are the worst, when that question comes from strangers and the spouses of friends. “So,” they ask, “what do you do?”
December 12, 2007
Freddie Fields was Hollywood’s most powerful and magnetic behind-the-scenes player, agenting cinema’s A-list when “star power” really meant something. Recognizing Fields’ influence, acumen and reputation, one top show biz insider sought to pay him the ultimate compliment: “Freddie,” he said, “you were Mike Ovitz before Mike Ovitz.”
Field’s retort: “No, Mike Ovitz is Freddie Fields after Freddie Fields.”
December 10, 2007
What do serial killers Richard “The Night Stalker” Ramirez and Austrian Euro-ghoul Jack Unterweger have in common, besides the obvious?...
December 09, 2007
When does that hands-free cell phone law go into effect?
December 08, 2007
Well, that is a bit myopic.... the new camping ban in Malibu places the blame on public access to public lands, rather than concentrates on making one's own efforts to live in one's own city more sustainable.
December 01, 2007
The developer who recently bought the Cecil Hotel on Main Street and announced a $7 million facelift of the 1927...
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| When the sun looks like that, there's a big fire somewhere regardless of whether we see or smell smoke.
Lee Abrams, Tribune Company's chief innovation officer, doesn’t seem too impressed with the Los Angeles Times. That’s the feeling I got when he appeared at the Los Angeles Press Club.
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