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Eric Gordon: Team USA beats Iran, gets top seed
Eric Gordon, the Clippers' shooting guard and a reserve on Team USA, will be a guest blogger for the Fabulous Forum during the FIBA World Championship tournament. On Wednesday the USA clamped down...
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Lakers' Lamar Odom plays limited time in Team USA's win over Iran in FIBA...
It didn't take long for Team USA to start blowing out Iran in the FIBA World Championship Wednesday, and it took even less time for Lakers forward Lamar Odom to find a seat on the bench for extended...
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Best wishes to Pete Hammond
It's suddenly very lonely, and kind of sad, over here at The Envelope since Pete Hammond just scooted over to Deadline Hollywood. Pete and I have not only been great pals forever, but I've blogged with...
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Ana Caravelle imagines the harp in the age of the sampler (and an exclusive...
There’s a pixie-shaped specter hovering over the music of Ana Caravelle -- one that looks an awful lot like Joanna Newsom. Such will be the lot of any young woman who roots an experimental, ambitious...
View ArticleU.S. Open: Sam Querrey wins as expected; Ryan Harrison gets the upset
Sam Querrey of Thousands Oaks, who won the Farmers Classic Los Angeles tournament to kick off his summer (and upset Andy Murray in the finals), beat NCAA champion Bradley Klahn, a Stanford junior from...
View ArticleU.S. Open: Venus Williams struggles early, dominates late [Updated]
Venus Williams wore a tiny, slitted black skirt and a swirly white-and-black halter top, her new U.S. Open daytime outfit, and for a portion of her second-round match Wednesday against Rebecca Marino...
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Mary Louise Parker will pass on actual weed, thank you very much
So what if Mary-Louise Parker doesn’t indulge in a little bit of the green stuff? For fans of Parker’s role as Nancy, the pot-peddling desperate housewife on Showtime’s “Weeds,” that little dose of...
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Social media wrap: Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart, Rachel Maddow and the battle of...
In social media, it rarely matters whether you’re loved or hated. In the old theatrical adage, if you’re entertaining, it means “bums on seats.” The Ticket gleaned this from a fascinating new...
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Live review: Green Day at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Billie Joe Armstrong and company reinforce their scrappy punk status at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, inviting fans to come on stage and sing along.Heads up, Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman: You may...
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Sony Reader announces new line of e-readers [Updated]
Today Sony announced its new electronic Reader line. The new Readers have more memory and improved screens. The new Reader Daily Edition is able to download ebooks from Sony's store without a cable and...
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Miranda Lambert in seven CMA races including three against fiance Blake Shelton
Miranda Lambert will contend in seven of the 12 categories at the upcoming 44th annual CMA Awards airing on ABC Nov. 10. Lambert's nominations include album, female vocalist, song, musical event and...
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PREACH IT! Hey! Here's a something-or-other about the Gosselins!
It’s a slow news day; may as well play into Hailey Glassman’s hands. Never has there been quite a pack of fame addicts quite so egregious as the Gosselins and their various hangers-on and exes. When it...
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ASP World Tour Top 32 finalized as Billabong Pro Tahiti completes Round 3
The midseason cut from 45 to 32 surfers on the ASP World Tour roster was completed Wednesday as Round 3 of the Billabong Pro Tahiti was finished in deteriorating conditions at Teahupoo, which forced...
View ArticleMan, 84, found dead in Monterey Hills home in possible homicide
An 84-year-old man was found dead Wednesday in his ransacked Monterey Hills homes in a case police are calling a possible homicide. Firefighters from the Los Angeles Fire Department arrived at the home...
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Cool new L.A. Collection: Charles Henry
Designer Meredith Fisher had her first sales appointment for her now-defunct fashion collection, WAYF, at L.A. boutique Satine when she was still in high school. Soon after, the Kentucky native was...
View ArticleU.S. Open: Azarenka out of hospital, has concussion
Victoria Azarenka, the 10th-seeded women's player who collapsed while trailing, 5-1, in the first set of her U.S. Open match against Gisela Dulko, released a statement Wednesday afternoon. Azarenka of...
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Gulf oil spill: BP's ad spending climbs
As BP oil spread across the gulf this summer, the company spread advertising money across the media, spending more than $93 million to counter images of the mounting disaster. That was more than...
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Joe Biden update: Turning over the keys in Iraq
With the administration's Top Talker in a made-over Oval Office doing his thing about the end of U.S. combat in Iraq -- to mixed reviews -- Joe Biden was dispatched to Baghdad to talk about what's...
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