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Pau Gasol
King Pau
By MATTHEW FLEISCHER
When you’re seven feet tall, an inconspicuous stroll down the Venice Boardwalk is a difficult thing to pull off. When you’re Pau Gasol, the newest member of the Los Angeles Lakers and the 7-foot savior of the team’s title aspirations, it’s pretty much impossible. … Keep Reading »
Pau Gasol
King Pau
By MATTHEW FLEISCHER
When you’re seven feet tall, an inconspicuous stroll down the Venice Boardwalk is a difficult thing to pull off. When you’re Pau Gasol, the newest member of the Los Angeles Lakers and the 7-foot savior of the team’s title aspirations, it’s pretty much impossible. … Keep Reading »
Pellicano Juror Reveals Inner Workings
Juror No. 7 speaks out on Anthony Pellicano, Anita Busch and Christian values
By STEVEN MIKULAN
“I WOULD LIKE TO TALK to Mr. Pellicano for half an hour — I would never tell anyone,” says Elaine Jordison as she drives up PCH, miles away from the Anthony Pellicano trial, which ended just hours before. “Why didn’t he testify or have a lawyer? I feel bad for his family. He has children. I cried.” … Keep Reading »
Joseph Del Real and Benjamin Tovar Martinez
The dragon keepers
By JOHNNY NAVARRO
When you walk down a flight of steps to a basement off an alleyway behind Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, you leave the yuppie bustle of Old Town and enter the dragon. At least, that’s how it felt about six months ago when four… Keep Reading »
Chelsea Handler
Horizontal hostess
By SIRAN BABAYAN
With Heather Locklear–like blond tresses and a killer rack God must’ve bestowed on her as a very early bat mitzvah gift (“sweater rockets,” she calls them), Chelsea Handler looks more like an Aaron Spelling muse than cable television’s female version of David Spade… Keep Reading »
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By Steven Mikulan
Juror No. 7 speaks out on Anthony Pellicano, Anita Busch and Christian values
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Thu, May 15, 12:51 pm
UPDATE: Here is LA Weekly's account...The federal trial of infamous Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano ended today with a jury verdict finding him guilty of all but one of the racketeering and conspiracy criminal counts against him. Reports from inside the courtroom say he sat expressionless while the verdicts for himself and his co-defendants were read. Pellicano [...]
URGENT! Jake & Jessica Sidelined Again: IATSE Shuts Down David O. Russell Film
Thu, May 15, 12:03 pm
EXCLUSIVE: I'm told that, this time around, it's IATSE who has put the screws to the Capitol Films indie film Nailed because its crew members weren't being paid. The pic's union members had been begging IATSE for weeks to get involved over all the payroll irregularities. Friday was supposed to be the deadline set for the crew to get paid since [...]
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