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The lights at the festival saying goodbye to the 6th Street Bridge (Photo by Neil Fitzpatrick via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr)
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- Here's a seemingly pleasant, old map of the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale.
- Nobody will be safe from his snark: Ricky Gervais is going to host the Golden Globes again.
- Hey hospital workers: don't photograph your patients. Two employees of the hospital Lamar Odom is staying at were let go for doing so and also possibly accessing his records.
- Check out the latest picture of Jared Leto's Joker from the upcoming Suicide Squad film.
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- What's your favorite? The A.V. Club has a list of the top 25 horror movies of this century so far.
- NPR's Nina Totenberg (who else?) tackles the cult of Notorious R.B.G..
- This guy who watched WAY too much Walking Dead got drunk and beat his friend to death with an electric guitar thinking that he was turning into a zombie.
- Awww. This baby deer got very attached to the man who saved it.
- Curbed LA has a handy guide to the stars buried at Forest Lawn.
- Finally, this video of people running backwards played in reverse is kind of weird. And creepy.
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