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Entries from LAist tagged with 'peterpan'

May 27, 2008

Unbelievable Dinner Good Neighbor, the locally based comedy sketch troupe who brought the world "Pregnant Jamie Lynn Speaks Out" (embedded below) is at it again with this homage to a scene from Hook.......

Continue Reading "Midnight Movie: It's All About Imagination"

July 27, 2007

Good taste in architecture: rumors fly (here and here) that he's bought the penthouse of the gorgeous bluegreen Eastern Columbia Building in downtown. The Eastern Columbia building is in the national register of historic places and is an LA Cultural-Historical landmark (#294, to be precise). It is coated in turquoise terra cotta from the ground level to the top of its 13th floor. The building will celebrate its 77th birthday on September 12. Johnny......

Continue Reading "Another reason to love Johnny Depp"

February 16, 2007

- The case of the Drunk Frat Boys v Borat has been rejected by an LA judge who basically ruled in such a way that it would cockblock pretty much any other "He embarrassed me while cameras were clearly rolling" case in the future - Defamer - However a California judge opened the flood gates for people who want to sue Big Tobacco - LAT - Good news continues to be in the economic......

Continue Reading "Extra, Extra with some extra Extra on the Side"

February 15, 2007

Go to your cupboards, see if you chose Peter Pan peanut butter or the Wal*Mart house brand, look on the lid and see if it starts with 2111. If it does you're a winner owner of a jar of peanut butter that could be contaminated with salmonella. Throw the jar out, but keep the lid because you can get a refund. Nearly 300 people in 39 states have fallen ill since August, and federal......

Continue Reading "Hey, You Got Salmonella in My Peanut Butter..."

September 20, 2006

Lede of the week: Imagine if Peter Pan had been a fucked-up teenage vagrant with a permanent hard-on, Wendy had been a cum-drenched junkie living in Brooklyn and Captain Hook had looked something like Mickey Rourke - you’d think to yourself, “I bet Larry Clark had something to do with this”. - LA Weekly's Style Council Stoke of the week: "While no one would ever confuse Paris Hilton with Mother Teresa, a homeless man......

Continue Reading "Peter, Paris, and Christine? The Best of the Week So Far"

October 24, 2005

Our favorite morning show hosts suffering from the Peter Pan syndrome, KROQ 106.7's Kevin & Bean, are in the hunt for a new sports reporter. The old guy -- Matt “Money” Smith -- left in August to join the Lakers broadcast team on XTRA Sports AM 570. Money's replacement should be able to do a two-minute report (among other things) at the top of each hour during their show, which runs weekdays from 5......

Continue Reading "If You Have a Face for Radio..."

July 5, 2005

Channel surfing the other night, LAist stumbled upon the recent HBO Film/BBC Production, The Girl in the Café, starring Bill Nighy (humorously unforgettable as the aging rock star in Love Actually) and Kelly Macdonald, most recently seen as Peter Pan in Finding Neverland. Written by British rom-com god Richard Curtis, famous for penning screenplays like Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary and the aforementioned Love Actually, the film is a......

Continue Reading "Romance with a Cause"

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