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  • Lindsay Lohan and Grant Bowler filming an intense scene in "Liz and Dick" on June 4 (Pacific Coast News) Here's why Lindsay Lohan may have lied to police about not driving her Porsche when she wrecked it two weeks ago: Apparently the insurance policy that her "Liz and Dick" producers took out prohibited her from driving. According to TMZ, "[T]he insurance company that issued the policy -- which would take a major hit if...
  • Los Angeles-based designer Jeremy Scott is trying to weather the controversy over his collaboration with Adidas. The JS Roundhouse Mids, which were supposed to be released in August, feature ankle shackles, which sparked some talk that the sneakers were racist and recalled slavery.
  • A photographer caught former tween starlet Hillary Duff smoking outside of Rock N Reilly's, a pub right in the heart of the Sunset Strip. Since Duff has been outspoken about breastfeeding her baby, should she be smoking?
  • Jack with baby Pearl (Twitter) Jack Osbourne, the son of rocker Ozzy Osbourne and TV personality Sharon Osbourne, announced that he has multiple sclerosis, the autoimmune disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. The 26-year-old, who welcomed a baby girl a few weeks ago with his fiancee, told People, "I was just angry and frustrated and kept thinking, 'Why now?' I've got a family and that's what's supposed to be the most important...
  • As Los Angeles—and the country as a whole—reflects on the death of Rodney King, it's notable that King ultimately managed to forgive the extreme police brutality that nearly killed him in 1991.
  • Rodney King 47, was found dead this morning, reports TMZ: "According to our sources, King's fiancée found him dead at the bottom of a pool... Law enforcement sources tell TMZ they responded to a call at 5:25 AM PT." After attempted to resuscitate him, King was reportedly pronounced dead at 6:11 a.m. A drowning investigation will be opened. Update: King's fiancée now says he had been drinking all day yesterday. King became famous name...
  • Via TMZ People, Lindsay Lohan may be dehydrated and exhausted to the point of her producers calling 911 to wake her up, but she's taking her gig playing Elizabeth Taylor very seriously. TMZ has this photo of Lohan on the set of the Lifetime movie. As TMZ reminds everyone, "Lindsay was checked out in her room at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Marina del Rey ... but was NOT taken to the hospital as...
  • Sure, the movie industry loves Woody Allen—at least enough to give him four Oscars—but he's not that into the company town, Los Angeles. Allen sucked it up for the LA Film Fest, in our city, the land of the "wheat germ killers."
  • Filming of the Steve Jobs biopic, Jobs, starring Ashton Kutcher as the visionary Apple entrepreneur, is underway and the film's crew descended on the Los Altos home where Jobs and pal Steve Wozniak built the first Apple computer in the garage.
  • In the world of art, does copyright for origami patterns matter? A group of renowned origami artists are suing a painter, accusing her of copyright infringement by adapting their design for her works. But the painter, Sarah Morris, claims using found images is an accepted practice, "Whatever you think of, say, Warhol, Lichtenberg, Rauchenberg, imagine you lost all of that work. Imagine that wasn’t there in the 20th century. That’s what would happen, you know?"

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