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  • Drew Barrymore puts wedding house on sale

    Drew Barrymore has put her Montecito, California home, where she got married to husband Will Kopelman, on the market. The Chester Carjola-designed six bedroom house, with a detached, two-storey guest property, has been listed at 7.5 million dollars, Contactmusic reported. According to RealEstalker.com, the actress purchased the 1937 built estate for 5.7 million dollars in 2010. ...

  • Chris Brown and girlfriend Karrueche Tran involved in car crash

    Chris Brown was recently caught on camera accidentally crashing his Range Rover into another car while he was driving in Los Angeles with his on-again girlfriend Karrueche Tran. The troubled rapper, who had crashed his Porsche into a wall back in February, was seen writing down insurance information after he rear-ended a black Mercedes, Contactmusic reported. The couple was on their way to ...

  • CA considering social media policy after Warner Twitter rant

    Cricket Australia (CA) chief James Sutherland has said the governing body might need to consider implementing a social media policy after Australian Test batsman David Warner's recent Twitter controversy. He said there had been no discussions about developing a social media policy for players, but admitted it is something that CA is considering. Sutherland insisted he will continue to ...

  • Will Smith not a swimmer

    Actor Will Smith may have pulled off several stunts in Hollywood films, but he doesn't know how to swim! He didn't learn to swim as he didn't have too many swimming pools in his vicinity when he was young. "I can't swim. In inner City Philadelphia, there's not a lot of swimming pools and I never actually learnt how to swim and I'm embarrassed about it," femalefirst.co.uk quoted the 44-year-old ...

  • Councilman Garcetti opens growing lead in race for Los Angeles mayor

    Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti greets supporters during an election night party at the Hollywood Palladium, May 21, 2013. (LUCY ...

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I Am Sam

"I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is," declared the titular simpleton of Forrest Gump (1994), and director/cowriter Jessie Nelson seems to have taken that line and decided to make an entire movie about it in I Am Sam, which tells the story of a mentally handicapped man fighting for his right to be a parent. The state of California has declared that, because he has the ... ...

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  • District attorney will retry Calif. officials charged with corruption

    LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County district attorney's office plans to retry the case against Bell council members accused of misappropriating public funds by overpaying themselves for sitting on city boards and authorities that rarely met, according to defense attorneys connected with the ...

  • California-based Foster Farms recalls grilled chicken breast strips

    California-based chicken producer Foster Farms is recalling about 6,165 pounds of its ready-to-eat grilled chicken breast strips because the strips contain wheat and soy — known allergens — which are not listed on the labels of its packages, federal agriculture officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said on Tuesday. There have been ...

  • Hollywood director to film The Colour in NZ

    Source: Thinkstock Hollywood director Peter Webber will film in New Zealand the adaptation of Rose Tremain's highly acclaimed novel The Colour. Set in the New Zealand gold rush in the 1860s, The Colour charts the fortunes of newly-married immigrants Joseph and Harriet Blackstone, who have travelled to New Zealand with Joseph's widowed mother. Finding life as a small farmer more ...

  • Garcetti Leads Greuel in Los Angeles Mayor’s Race

    LOS ANGELES -- City Councilman Eric Garcetti took the lead in early returns in his bid to become the mayor of Los Angeles on Tuesday, hoping to bring to close a nearly two-year race that pitted him against another moderate Democrat with years of experience at City Hall. But his opponent, City Controller Wendy Greuel, refused to concede ...

  • UC hospitals face second day of worker walkout

    LOS ANGELES -; Workers at University of California hospitals around the state were expected to picket for a second day before an intentionally brief strike ends early ...

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