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Ripley's Believe It or Not museum gets family-friendly makeover
A gruesome photo gallery of men and women impaled by arrows, augers and pipes is gone from the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum in Hollywood. And don't expect to see any displays of medieval chastity belts or tongs used to torture victims of the...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Travel, Tourism and Leisure, Entertainment, Robin Williams
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Michael Jackson referred to as 'freak' in AEG email
In his opening statement in the Michael Jackson wrongful-death suit, an attorney for AEG said his side would expose the singer's secrets. "We're going to show some ugly stuff," Marvin Putnam said. But on Wednesday, it was lawyers for the singer's family...
Tags: Lawyers, Michael Jackson, Entertainment, AEG, Conrad Murray
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'Grimm': Silas Weir Mitchell on being a good big bad wolf
On NBC's "Grimm," Silas Weir Mitchell plays what is essentially the big bad wolf — albeit one who would much rather restore grandfather clocks than eat grandmothers. Mitchell, who may be known to viewers from popular stints on "Prison Break,"...
Tags: The Voice (tv program), Grimm (tv program), Celebrities, My Name is Earl (tv program), Burn Notice (tv program)
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Jennifer Lawrence gets costume close-up in 'X-Men' director's photo
Jennifer Lawrence returns as Mystique in "X-Men: Days of Future Past," and she's got a costumed photo to prove it. Director Bryan Singer is bringing new meaning to the phrase "behind the scenes," using social media to pique fan interest for his next...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult
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Bioterrorism consultant's anthrax claims challenged
WASHINGTON — As an example of the ease with which terrorists could produce anthrax, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig has repeatedly cited the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo. The cult gained infamy in 1995 by unleashing the nerve agent sarin in...
Tags: Japan, Terrorism, Bioterrorism, University of Maryland, College Park, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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‘Odd Duck’: Cecil Castellucci’s quirky tale celebrates strangeness
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles Times“Odd Duck,” by Cecil Castellucci and Sara Varon, chronicles the quirky friendship between two ducks — Theodora, who swims with […]... -
PS4? New Xbox? Nah, it’s the little games that matter
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesThere's a tiny orange box moving around the screen of the PlayStation Vita. Its name is Chris. It is an […]... -
A mermaid, a fashion film, a bath bomb and 'The Great Gatsby' [Updated 4:37 p.m. May 10]
Members of L.A.’s film music elite mingled with weather-beaten eco-warrior sailors and neo Edwardian fashionistas amid costumes from Baz Luhrmann’s "The Great Gatsby" Tuesday night at the multi-textured unveiling of musician-arranger-...
Tags: Arts and Culture, The Matrix (movie), Vivienne Westwood, Entertainment, Alexander McQueen
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Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'NCIS: Los Angeles' on CBS
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 28 - May 4, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES NCIS Homeland Security wants...
Tags: Abusive Behavior, Miami International Airport, Pauley Perrette, Felicity Huffman, Entertainment
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With new arrest, ricin case takes a strange turn
TUPELO, Miss. — Federal agents of all sorts invaded northeast Mississippi several days ago, on a mission: Find the man who sent a poison-laced letter to the president. But the United States government quickly found itself entangled, once again, in a...
Tags: Abusive Behavior, Barack Obama, Police Arrests, Judges, Book
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Egypt president sees 'deep state' as enemy within
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi casts himself as a leader navigating a landscape bristling with conspiracies by corrupt businessmen and shadowy figures plotting from inside a vast bureaucracy his Islamist inner circle has been unable to tame....
Tags: Prosecution, Civil Rights, Politics, Mohamed Morsi, Judges
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Jittery public, hoax calls add to pressure on law enforcement
Someone calls 911 to make a bomb threat, prompting the evacuation of a local TV station as police race to the scene. It turns out to be a hoax. Someone sees a package that they think is a bomb, temporarily shuttering a local city hall over terrorism...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Conservation, Law Enforcement, Television Industry, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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