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Barack Obama bested the Presidential campaign by reaching across all places and people. It seems only fitting that his inauguration week bears a similarly dynamic platform: from the earliest cinematic pioneers to the latest digital technologies, from campy cult comedies to maverick macho westerns, from classic actors to Jean Claude Van Damme, from sea to shining sea. This is why I love L.A. Nay, this is why I love America!

While the new DVD set of may have been the worst movie of the year. Poor, brilliant Michelle.

Christian Brando, the troubled son of legendary actor Marlon Brando, died from pneumonia early this morning at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital.

Tonight - Tuesday - May 1, 2007 NCIS/The Unit (CBS, 8-10:00 p.m.) This week the gimmick is a blind photographer - dude, what's your Flickr site?/Parachute malfunction Brando (TCM, 8-??) Biography of Marlon Brando followed by several of his films, starting with A Streetcar Named Desire. Dateline NBC (NBC, 8:00 p.m.) Boys confess to 2004 murder of 12-year-old girl Gilmore Girls/Veronica Mars (the CW, 8-10:00 p.m.) Lorelai eating, drinking, shopping, karaoke/Veronica investigates vandalism of...

Los Angeles airport employees accused of stealing celebrity property A group of screeners at LAX suspected of stealing personal items from celebrities, including Paris Hilton, will have misdemeanor charges filed against them. At least now she knows where those panties went. Los Angeles minister sues police over marijuana raid at church Rev. Craig X Rubin, founder of Temple 420, the minister who was arrested on charges of marijuana possession has sued police for $30...

This morning on the Howard Stern Show the king of all media read a statement written by a former Clear Channel radio personality who is now on a mission to get Stern a star on Hollywood Blvd.

For some it might be hard to imagine an industry where you’re washed up by 35, where the car you drive is just as important, or in some cases more so, than what you are bringing to the table and where you can routinely hear you boss use the word “fuck” about 100 times a day just for the hell of it. Oh people, we’re so jaded here in Lala Land. And if you’re looking for a dead-on recap comedy of just such a place, then you should head to the Pasedena Playhouse before this Sunday (2/19) to see Diva.

So Jon Stewart will host the Oscars this year. Hosting the Oscars solo is a little like climbing Everest: the idea of doing it is always there, taunting America's elite comedians and raconteurs. Some, like Bob Hope, can beat it — 12 times he hosted alone, and more times with helpers tagging along. Others end up like Beck Weathers and David Letterman, beaten and barely alive, knowing they'll never do it again. But the challenge to climb it remains, irresistable, until the opportunity is seized. Many who've tried have passed into that good night. Stewart, we love ya: please bring a sherpa.

The 2005 finalists for the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction contest have been announced, and they include Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie, and John Updike. You can read the complete list and the passages for which the offending authors were nominated here. Laist's (least) favorite follows, from Marlon Brando's godawful, posthumously published novel,

Don't miss the "Hey Doll" show, a collaboration of 13 women artists that's been more than a year in the making. Each artist constructed a doll-like art object and gave it a diary, then released it into the hands of the next artist, and so on, until each woman had added her touch to each doll. As the changes were documented in the diaries, the dolls evolved into strange and beautiful creatures. See what happens when a razor scooter doll meets a glassblower at the opening Saturday night.

Tonight at the Knitting Factory, the Early Day Miners are performing with Chris Brokaw at 8:30 PM. Admission is $7.

Tonight at LACMA, see a screening of the 1969 Marlon Brando film Queimada. Previously released only in a shortened, dubbed English version titled Burn!, the museum will be showing the full, original Italian version with English subtitles at 7:30 PM.