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  • I learnt magic tricks from mother Jesse Eisenberg

    Hollywood actor Jesse Eisenberg says he got confidence to perform the tricks of an illusionist in his forthcoming film "Now You See Me" by watching his mother. "My mother was like a hippy clown. She did folk songs at children parties. She was like a great performer and I grew up in a house of somebody who was like a confident performer. She was really great in front of an audience and my ...

  • Hollywood star Steven Seagal visits Chechnya

    Hollywood star Steven Seagal spent some time with Ramzan Kadyrov, the former militant fighter who now heads Chechnya, in the latest in a series of visits by Western celebrities to the volatile Russian republic. "The famous American actor, film producer, writer, director and martial arts expert (seventh dan aikido) Steven Seagal visited our republic today (Wednesday)," Kadyrov wrote on ...

  • Northern California landslide stabilizes

    LAKEPORT, Calif. -; Officials say a Northern California subdivision that partly sank into a hilltop has stabilized after several homes, roads and sections of a sewer system were ...

  • Hi Its Ari $ing Emanuel and I plan to shake up Hollywood

    Sean Parker, the billionaire technology investor and onetime president of Facebook, will never forget being on the receiving end of an Ari Emanuel onslaught. It was 2009. Emanuel, the famous Hollywood agent, had been e-mailing Parker because a friend had suggested they connect. "I knew who he was," says Parker, who, like so many others, conflated Emanuel with Ari Gold, his alter ego on ...

  • When Hollywood Wants Good Clean Fun It Goes to Mormon Country

    The film's premise sounded fun and wry and a little hokey. It was aiming for that Pixar-ish sweet spot, which is typical of the animated shorts that B.Y.U. students have made every year since the program started in 2000. (See, for example, ...


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Movie Review

Beverly Hills Cop [Blu-Ray]

Beverly Hills Cop [Blu-Ray]

Beverly Hills Cop, one of the first megahits of the early 1980s and the movie that catapulted star Eddie Murphy into the Hollywood stratosphere, is all about attitude. It has to be: Short in the narrative department, filled with caricatures, and largely lacking in any re ... ...

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  • UnitedHealth Aetna and Cigna opt out of California insurance exchange

    Kaiser Permanente, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California are all expected to participate in the state-run market for individual health ...

  • Distraction burglars who hit Torrance victims arrested in Orange case

    Erika Ephraim, 19 Two suspected gang members have been charged with committing a distraction burglary in the city of Orange just months after they were convicted of victimizing elderly victims in Torrance, police said Wednesday. Mickey Christian Mitchell and Erika Ephraim, both 19-year-old Anaheim residents, were arrested by Torrance police officers earlier this month in connection with the ...

  • Czech police seek man from California suspected of murdering 4 in city of Brno

    PRAGUE - Czech police are searching for an American man suspected of killing four people and say they believe he is on the run and armed. Brno Police spokeswoman Petra Vedrova identified him as Kevin Dahlgren, born in 1992, and released his photograph. A Facebook page containing the same photograph says that Dahlgren is from Palo Alto, California, and lives in the Czech Republic's ...

  • Southern California Marijuana Dispensary Workers Join Labor Union

    Marijuana dispensary workers in Los Angeles have joined a labor union to fight for their jobs in an industry that the federal government considers illegal. Workers at 14 pot shops have formed the "medical cannabis and hemp division'; of the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 770. The 35,000-member union also represents grocery clerks, pharmacists and health care workers. ...

  • Distressed home sales decline in California

    Distressed home sales in California in April declined to their lowest level since February 2008, according to the California Association of Realtors.Distressed sales fell to 24.4 percent, down from 27.9 percent in March and 45.8 percent in April last year.CAR also said the share of lender-owned sales fell to single digit percentages for the first time since late 2007 – 9.2 percent in April, ...

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