The LA City Council may limit fast food in South LA. A student entrepreneur raises questions about whether or not you can sell class notes. TGIFilmweek! Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Henry Sheehan and Lael Loewensten discuss the week's new releases including Hereafter, Red, Conviction and others. Academy Award nominated screenwriter Peter Morgan discusses writing Hereafter.
Zoning for health? City plans to regulate fast food in South LA
The issue of having too much fast food and too few healthy choices in South Los Angeles has been discussed for years. But now that a temporary ban on new free-standing fast-food restaurants has expired, permanent regulations are being considered. A plan approved unanimously yesterday by the Los Angeles Planning Commission, is now headed to the City Council’s planning committee. Councilwoman Jan Perry, who represents the area, says it’s about correcting an imbalance and more healthy choices are needed. But the California Restaurant Association opposes the measure as an unnecessary burned on business. Does South LA need permanent regulations in order to attract more full-service, healthy food options? Or is this just another nanny-state move?
Guests:
Bill McCarthy, Professor at UCLA’s School of Public Health
Stuart Waldman, President, Valley Industry and Commerce Association
Who owns class notes and can they be sold?
What happens when a Cal State student decides to create a website for students to share notes, old homework and study guides? Cal State officials say he is in violation of California’s education code. Ryan Stevens says it’s an issue of student rights and he hopes the ACLU will take up his cause. So are class notes intellectual property? Would you let that stop you from getting the advantage that access to such information can offer?
Guests:
Ryan Stevens, founder of NoteUtopia.com
James Nguyen, attorney with Wildman Harrold Allen and Dixon LLP and former chair of the intellectual property section of the State Bar of California.
FilmWeek: Hereafter, Red, Conviction and others
KPCC film critics Henry Sheehan of henrysheehan.com and Lael Loewensten of Variety join Larry to review the week’s new film releases including Hereafter, Red, Conviction, Down Terrace and Almar, among others. TGI-Filmweek!
Guests:
Lael Loewenstein, film critic for KPCC and Variety
Henry Sheehan, film critic for KPCC and henrysheehan.com
Writing Hereafter
What comes in the next life? What’s my purpose? The big questions dominate Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter, opening this week in Los Angeles. Peter Morgan penned the screenplay. At least one critic says the story ambitiously offers an alternative to organized religion. Meanwhile, Morgan is also at work on a biopic of rock legend Freddie Mercury, to be portrayed by Borat’s Sacha Baron Cohen. Peter Morgan joins Larry in this life.
Guest:
Peter Morgan, screenwriter, Hereafter. Nominated for two Academy Awards, for The Queen in 2007 and for Frost/Nixon in 2009.