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Extra, Extra: A Reporter Went Undercover At A USC Frat Party
R.I.P, the Holidays. (Photo by PatricksMercy via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr)
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- Motion Picture Academy members will be casting their ballots for this year's Academy Award nominations this week, and there's a chance those filmmakers and actors nominated will be as white as ever despite last year's backlash against the lack of diversity, reports the L.A. Times. "You definitely want the people who decide these things to reflect society,"said the director of Creed Ryan Coogler. "There's empowerment in representation. It means so much when you see somebody who's like you up there on that stage."
- Writer Natasha Vargas-Cooper attended a USC frat party undercover, and wrote about the experience over at Broadly.
- Surprise, surprise: Star Wars: The Force Awakens topped the box office again this weekend, and is now the second-highest grossing film of all time with $740.3 million in its19 days of release. The title that holds the top honor is Avatar, which was not a good movie.
- Here's a Darwin Award-contender: A Northern California man was arrested for armed robbery after taking a Snapchat selfie with his victim.
- "Hollywood" heroin does not sound very glamorous.
- Speaking of awful things related to Hollywood: Bill Cosby's star on the Walk of Fame won't be removed; just yet, anyway.
- Despite the absence of star Blake Griffin, the Los Angeles Clippers are hot: they've won six games in a row, their longest streak of the season. Look out, Warriors.
- These were the ten most expensive homes sold in Los Angeles in 2015.
- Do you like cantaloupe? This kind sounds fancy.
- Musician Stephen Stills turns 71 today. Here he is rehearsing "Southern Cross":
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