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  • Love scenes are judged Michael Douglas

    Hollywood actor Michael Douglas says it is tough filming love scenes for any movie because everybody judges them. He has shot a gay love scene with actor Matt Damon in his forthcoming film Steven Soderbergh's "Behind the Candelabra". The 68-year-old believes that the cast, crew and eventually moviegoers are more critical of love scenes because everyone can relate to the acts, as opposed to ...

  • California Strawberry Commission awards scholarhip money to 46 Oxnard students

    Fatima Lopez (left) leans in as her mother Graciela Reyna gives her older sister, Noemi Lopez, a student at Oxnard High School, a kiss for the $400 she has been given on Monday night for her education at California Strawberry Scholarship Program’s awards ...

  • California winery says it makes wine containing no sulphites. Really

    Let me break it to you bluntly. You cannot have wine without sulphites. Widely maligned as a source of headaches and respiratory ailments, the sulphur compounds are, it's true, intentionally added by most producers at various stages of the wine-making process to keep spoilage micro-organisms in check and help shield wine against the ravages of ...

  • Californias Fast-Growing Job Creator Latino Businesses

    At some point this summer, the largest population group in California will quietly shift from white to Hispanic, the first time since California became a state in 1850. By 2020, Hispanics will represent almost 41 percent of the population, with nearly 2 million more Hispanics than whites - and topping 1 million Hispanics in five counties, according to new projections by the California ...

  • Xi Obama to meet in California

    Obama in California next month on his way back from a trip to Latin America and the Caribbean. Analysts said the arrangements for their meeting, which is informal but will be held over two days, show that relations between the two countries are mature. The China-US summit, the first since Xi took office in March, will be held at Sunnylands, on the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Estate, on June 7 ...


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Movie Review

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

In the early eighties, a 22-year old reporter for "Rolling Stone" named Cameron Crowe did a very odd thing. Curious about what life was really like in a contemporary American high school, he decided to go undercover and pretend to be a teenager. He spent an entire year infiltrating a Southern California high school, making friends with a large group of kids and writing down everything he could. Wh ... ...

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  • Report Del Negro out as head coach of Clippers

    The Clippers have reportedly dumped coach Vinny Del Negro. (Harry How/Getty Images) The Clippers reportedly parted ways with coach Vinny Del Negro on ...

  • LAPD Officer Arrested Charged with Molesting Two Young Girls

    A Los Angeles Police Department officer is due in court on Tuesday, where he will face charges of performing lewd acts with minors inside his Castaic home. Officer Miguel Schiappapietra, 28, was arrested on Saturday at his home and charged with two counts of lewd acts with a child. He was held on $100,000 bail. According to police, Schiappapietra lured two young girls, both under the age of ...

  • Hollywood Docket Digital Music Class Action Aereokiller Settlement Snoop Lion Lawsuit

    Snoop Lion is sued by a Lebanese businessman. A New York federal judge has declined to dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit against, as he puts it, "the whole of the digital music ...

  • Marathon L.A. Mayors Race Comes to a Close With Unprecedented Hollywood Support

    Tobey Maguire, Magic Johnson Enlisted for Wendy Greuel Campaign Fundraiser The entertainment industry traditionally disdains local politics, preferring to devote its high-wattage star endorsements and generous campaign contributions to national candidates and causes. Both Greuel and Garcetti, however, have deep, long-standing ties to Hollywood. She worked as a high-level executive at DreamWorks ...

  • Wednesday police log Beach Cities

    El Segundo Attempted robbery: 7:21 a.m. May 16, 2300 block of Utah Avenue. Someone brandished a gun and attempted to rob the victims. Brandishing a knife: 11:15 a.m. May 17, 1900 block of Hughes Way. Someone brandished a knife and destroyed a box display. Burglary/petty theft: Police took a report May 15 from the 200 block of West Mariposa Avenue. Access was gained into a locked office. Money ...

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