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Extra, Extra: Nikki Sixx Reports His Son Missing, Echo Park's Mystery Thump & A Boy Scout Scandal
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- Nikki Sixx reported his son missing to the Malibu Sheriff's Station, even though he knew his son was at his friend's house.
- No one knows exactly where the mystery thump in Echo Park is coming from.
- There's a new documentary about Orson Welles.
- The Boy Scouts failed to report a serial molester...for a decade.
- A horror screenwriter reflects on horror in the movies for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
- Lady Gaga is the first to get 15 million followers on Twitter.
- One day we'll report that a starlet is not trying to lose baby weight, but that day is not today.
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