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Two of L.A.'s biggest supergraphics coming down as crackdown intensifies [Updated]
L.A. NOWTwo of the tallest and most controversial supergraphics in Los Angeles, standing 11 stories in Hollywood, are being removed by the sign company after City Atty. Carmen Trutanich issued a cease-and-desist letter to the advertising company affiliated with... -
Anna Nicole Smith's estate loses claim to Texas oilman's riches [Updated]
L.A. NOWTexas oilman J. Howard Marshall II never intended to bestow his fortune on his wife Anna Nicole Smith, a federal court ruled Friday, marking another twist in a convoluted inheritance battle that has outlived both Smith and her adversary, Marshall's...... -
Monster Mash: 'American Idiot' fans gush; a hole in Nero's palace; Anna Nicole Smith's Derby dresses
Culture Monster--Free expression: Fans of the new Broadway musical "American Idiot" are scribbling their thoughts and statements of love on the entrance wall of the St. James Theatre, where the show -- which is based on a Green Day album --...... -
Corey Haim obtained 553 pills from seven doctors, California attorney general says
L.A. NOWIn the weeks before his death from a suspected accidental overdose, actor Corey Haim went âdoctor shoppingâ and obtained at least 553 pills of powerful prescription medications from seven different doctors and as many different pharmacies,... -
The movie magic is gone
Neal Gabler is the author of many books, including "Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination" and "Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality."TONIGHT'S Oscars will be awarded, most likely, in the usual atmosphere of solemn self-congratulation and decorous chest-thumping. But for all the outward celebration, the truth is that the industry is in a state of ongoing disquiet. It is hardly news...Tags: Culture, Entertainment, The Godfather (movie), Surgery, Bette Davis
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Alt cartoonists
Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist of the Lexington Herald-Leader. His work also appears in USA Today.While mainstream press cartoonists recover from their wretched run of astronaut diaper doodles and appalling Anna Nicole Smith gags (class action paternity suits?), let's look in on the alternative-press inkers. This restless crowd is joyfully...Tags: Cartoons, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Awards and Prizes
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The warden of Fallouja
Mike Carlson served as the officer in charge of the Camp Fallouja Regional Detention Facility from March 2006 to October. He is now a graduate student in creative writing at the University of Central Florida.[ 1 ] They're not prisoners, they're "detainees." It sounds better, as if they're merely inconvenienced rather than shoehorned into cinderblock cells, thumbing their military-issued Korans and waiting to be interrogated. One-third are innocents caught...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment, NASCAR, Transportation Accidents, Armed Forces
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Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend, doctors charged with supplying her with drugs
Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend and two of her doctors were charged with repeatedly supplying the former Playboy centerfold with addictive prescription drugs since 2004, nearly three years before she died of an overdose, authorities said.
The offices of...Tags: Lawyers, Prescription Drugs, Prosecution, Entertainment, Substance Abuse
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Prescriptions supplanting illegal substances as drugs of choice
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterA Riverside County psychiatrist who drove a Corvette and lived in a gated community allegedly wrote prescriptions in the lobby of his fitness club and outside restaurants for $100 each. More than $1 million was stashed in luggage at the house of an...Tags: Recreational Substance Use, Lawyers, FBI, Prosecution, Addiction
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America tortures (yawn)
IT WAS MUCH LIKE the usual Nigerian e-mail scam, but it had a dispiriting twist. "Greetings," went the e-mail, "I am Captain Smith Scott of the US Marine Force in Baghdad-Iraq. On the 10th day of February 2007 we captured three (3) of the Terrorists ...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, John Winthrop, Prisons, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice
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Dickens, Trollope -- and Anna Nicole?
JOHN SUTHERLAND is professor emeritus of modern English literature at University College, London, and a visiting professor of literature at Caltech.AS EVERYONE who is not locked in a dungeon knows, the story of Anna Nicole Smith has received overwhelming attention in recent weeks. The mainstream American press, in fact, has taken a good deal of stick from its more highbrow readers for devoting so...Tags: Anthony Trollope, Literature, Television, Entertainment, England
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