Century City Murder
I’m strangely fascinated by the case of the woman stabbed to death in a Century City parking garage after meeting with her lawyer in a nasty divorce with millions of dollars at stake. They say that stabbing someone to death is the most rageful of murders–you have to get thisclose–and the vast majority of women killed are knocked off by their husbands, exes or boyfriends. So why was it that a doctor who tried to help...
Hold the Phone, But Not For Long
OK, who’s going to get the first DWT-HTP (driving while talking and holding the phone)ticket when this California law goes into effect? Rather than a safety thing, it’s feeling like a selling/marketing opportunity for companies to sell hands-free gadgets to all of us yakkers. When, really, the speakerphone will do most of the time, if you’re driving solo. If you’re like me, a hater of Bluetooth earpieces or any...
Pap Fight on the Beach
Amazing how much coverage this story has gotten….duh, because there’s good video. A bunch of Malibu surfers trying to protect shirtless (and brainless) Matthew McConaughey–and the world–from more pictures of him surfing. It’s the aught’s version of West Side Story: surfers versus paps, and I’d call it a draw. But it would be very disconcerting if a bunch of paps converged on “my”...
Stupider than Spitzer
Well, maybe not quite. Did you hear the one about the 9th Circuit Appeals Court judge presiding over an obsenity trial discovered to have reams of beastie porn on his website? Alex Kozinski then tried to blame it all on his son, after saying he didn’t know anyone else but him could view it. What a perv! He also thought a picture of a guy giving himself head was hysterically funny. I bet! Hey, I’m all for free speech but...
Cannes Opener/Indy Kicks Ass/Dinner of Champions
Talk about bad PR. As the festival got underway, the LAT ran a story of brazen crimes that have victimized film people doing business in the South of France. Yes, they dug up ten years worth of stuff, but there was a similarity and a cautionary tale. Thieves rifling through hotel rooms while the occupants were there, and the hotel staff didn’t seem to really care....