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Sherman Oaks and South LA made national news yesterday when a Los Angeles native, now based in Oregon, became the latest decried author who penned a fraudulent memoir. Yes, Margaret Seltzer grew up in the Valley, no Margaret B. Jones (her non de plume) did not gangbang in South Central as her book said.

The New York Daily News is reporting that big fat hulking Frisco Gyro Barry Bonds tested positive for amphetamines last season. The paper goes on to say that when Bonds was told of this he blamed it on teammate Mark Sweeney from whom he claimed to have swiped some "substances". Bonds was not punished for his transgression, but instead was referred to treatment and counseling. While amphetamines are considered performance-enhancing drugs, they are treated differently...

Now everybody wants to be homeless. Pras Michel, the Grammy-winning Fugees collaborator, just spent 8 days sleeping on LA's mean streets. He was trying to live on $1 per day for a documentary about poverty, which he plans to screen at the Toronto Film Festival. Living on the streets wasn't easy, he told the New York Daily News:

We're not quite sure how a book satirizing and mocking a film studio but bought and published by the same film studio's book division is supposed to work but that didn't stop us from drinking as much free vodka as possible at Geisha House last night. Media Bistro and Miramax Books hosted a book release party for Rachel Pine and her novel, The Twins of Tribeca, a gossamer thin swipe at the house that Harvey and Bob built. We even got a free copy of the book and, this morning, found the New York Daily News's handy dandy guide to the human counterparts of the characters therein. We're not so keen on a Hollywood story being set in NYC but we'll withold judgment until we actually read the "chick-lit". We're still reminiscing about the open bar.

Hiring Spero Dedes is a bad idea. He comes from what I like to call the "New York school" of basketball announcers, where everyone desperately tries to sound like Marv Albert. They all speak in short phrases, and throw a bit of a New York flair at the end of their sentence, while not really saying a whole lot. Mike Breen has become relatively accomplished with this style, and Spero could too one day.

- The New York Daily News gossip page lets us know that The Sopranos' final season will not air in 2005.