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  • Will Smith not a swimmer

    Actor Will Smith may have pulled off several stunts in Hollywood films, but he doesn't know how to swim! He didn't learn to swim as he didn't have too many swimming pools in his vicinity when he was young. "I can't swim. In inner City Philadelphia, there's not a lot of swimming pools and I never actually learnt how to swim and I'm embarrassed about it," femalefirst.co.uk quoted the 44-year-old ...

  • 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 ...

  • Lighthouse story heads to Hollywood

    A NOVEL inspired by Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse may become a Hollywood film, after Stephen Spielberg's movie company DreamWorks snapped up the rights to The Light Between Oceans by M L ...

  • LAPD Officer Pleads Not Guilty to Child Molestation

    Los Angeles police Officer Miguel Schiappapietra, 28, pleads not guilty to child molestation charges on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 in Los Angeles Superior Court. A judge doubled his bail amount to ...

  • Dead body found at UCLA suicide suspected

    LOS ANGELES -- The body of a man was found at the base of Boelter Hall in the School of Engineering on the UCLA campus today. ABC7 reported that the coroner's office said it was reported as an apparent suicide. The body was reported to campus police at 4:17 p.m., said UCLA spokesman Phil Hampton. He said that UCLA police had decided "there was no indication of foul play." ...


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Movie Review

Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading

Joel and Ethan Coen have a special affinity for characters who are dumber than they seem, which is matched only by their affinity for characters who are precisely as dumb as they seem. Burn After Reading, their relentlessly ridiculous screwball follow-up to No Count ... ...

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  • Space companies warn against excessive government oversight of their industry

    The Space Tech Expo is at the Long Beach Convention Center through Thursday and features exhibitors and lectures for the space industry. Expo visitors take photos next to a NASA space suit at the California Space Enterprise Center booth. (Scott Varley / Staff ...

  • Torrance drug and alcohol counselor to stand trial for 2012 hit-and-run murder

    because Wilkins "has no prior DUI conviction." She also scoffed at the prosecution theory that Wilkins was driving home and planned to "dump" Moreno's body. Deputy District Attorney John Harlan said a prior conviction for DUI was not necessary to prosecute Wilkins for murder, and that Wilkins - as a drug and alcohol counselor at the Twin Town Treatment Center in ...

  • LAX will name part of new Tom Bradley terminal after Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

    < 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } The Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners, whose members are appointed by the mayor, unanimously moved Tuesday to name the great hall of the new Tom Bradley International Terminal after outgoing Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. "The mayor wasted no time after he was sworn in, in July 2005, to focus on airport issues," commission President ...

  • Murrieta Water Main Breaks Creating 20-Foot Sinkhole

    MURRIETA (CBSLA.com) -- Some Murrieta residents were without water Tuesday after a water main broke, creating a 20-foot-wide sinkhole on a busy street. Officials from the Rancho California Water District said the pavement collapsed when a leaky air valve caused a water main to break and the asphalt to buckle at California Oaks Rd between Jackson and Monroe Ave. The incident took place early ...

  • Prosecutors Want Retrial In Bell Corruption Case

    Five former Bell City Council members, George Mirabal (C), (2L-R) Teresa Jacobo, George Cole, Oscar Hernandez and Victor Bello, are found guilty of stealing public money by paying themselves extraordinary salaries in one of Los Angeles County’s poorest cities March 20, 2013, in Los Angeles, California. Luis Artiga (L), the only of the six defendants who was acquitted on all charges, was ...

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