5 Things To Watch For At The Annie Awards

5 Things To Watch For At The Annie Awards

Carolyn Giardina
Nominees include "Kung Fu Panda 2," "Puss In Boots," "Rango"--and Gary Oldman.

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Venice Beach on TV: Pacific Blue

Venice Beach on TV: Pacific Blue

Someone has been putting a lot of episodes of the late 80′s to mid 90′s television show “Pacific Blue” up at YouTube. (Why the DOJ hasn’t arrested the owners of the USA based Google like they have the foreign owners of Megaupload for providing the same sort of content is … odd.) Anyway …

Pacific Blue used Venice as a location for many if not most of their episodes. You can skip around and check out various episodes by clicking here.

Check out this clip that features the newly opened Mercedes Grill on Washington in 1998:

Here is another “great” (cheesy) full episode that features “a former teen idol (Danny Bonaduce) who takes to robbing boardwalk stores with guests Susan Olsen, Adam West and Erik Estrada.

Fun stuff from back in the days when bad guys drove Porsche 914s as getaway vehicles, people still used payphones and Ocean Front Walk was not a total flea market. Venice is seen in part one and resumes in part 4 at 6:40 with the Pavillion in the background.

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Captain Jack Sparrow Ozzy Osbourne and Other Characters Get Into Hollywood Blvd. Brawl

Captain Jack Sparrow Ozzy Osbourne and Other Characters Get Into Hollywood Blvd. Brawl [UPDATED]

It was another rough and tumble night Thursday on the mean streets of Hollywood as performers dressed in costume outside the Kodak Theater became involved in a brawl. The fight involved a man dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow from the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise of films being pepper sprayed by another costumed character dressed as Catwoman. [ more › ]

Is Facebook Really a Good Business?

Is Facebook Really a Good Business

Facebook is the strangest Internet company ever to make it big. Compare Mark Zuckerberg’s site with Amazon, which just wants to sell you stuff—an old business in a new medium. By contrast, Facebook’s all-encompassing mission to “make the world more open and connected” seems positively zany. It’s not only that Facebook is ambitious; lots of Web companies, especially Google, strike the same revolutionary tone. What’s different about Facebook is its product: Facebook is us. You go to Google for Web pages, you go to Apple for computers, and you go to Amazon for stuff. What does Facebook give you? Me and you and everyone we know. Or, to quote another movie: It’s people! Facebook, is made out of people!

'Lost' Co-Star, Stand-Up Comic Join Sarah Silverman's NBC Pilot

'Lost' Co-Star, Stand-Up Comic Join Sarah Silverman's NBC Pilot



Lesley Goldberg
Ken Leung and Tig Notaro will co-star in the comedy vehicle about a woman readjusting to single life.

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GQ Calls L.A. Smelliest Place on Earth

GQ Calls L.A. Smelliest Place on Earth

 

No doubt you woke up this morning, threw open your front door to inhale the scent of jasmine, like in a Joan Didion essay, then closed the doors and reached for your bottle of whiskey, the fumes going straight up your nose like they once did to Charles Bukowski. According to GQ, it's these types of scents that make Los Angeles the smelliest -- not the stinkiest, but the smelliest -- city in the world. And it's these romanticized literary notions of L.A. that fuel our dubious distinction. [ more › ]

Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, Comic Dana Gould Developing Comedy at FX

Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, Comic Dana Gould Developing Comedy at FX

Lesley Goldberg
The project would revolve around a rock band on the cusp of stardom -- and breaking up.

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'Artist' Star Jean Dujardin Under Fire in France for Provocative Movie Ads

'Artist' Star Jean Dujardin Under Fire in France for Provocative Movie Ads



Rebecca Leffler
Billboard ads for Dujardin's latest film as writer, director and actor "The Players" have been censured.

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2 Wounded in Barber Shop Shooting in Venice

2 Wounded in Barber Shop Shooting in Venice:

A gunman walked into a barber shop on Lincoln Boulevard in Venice on Wednesday morning and shot and wounded two men, police said.

The shooting occurred about 9:30 a.m. after a man wearing a black hoodie sweatshirt opened fire, said Officer Gregory Baek of the Los Angeles Police Department.

One man was treated at the scene for a foot wound, and the other was taken to a hospital by a private citizen, Los Angeles police Officer Bruce Borihanh said. That man, whose condition was unknown, may have been taken to Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital by a friend, police said.

The shooting at Pico Barbershops at 1920 Lincoln Blvd. was reportedly sparked by an argument.

The gunman "walked into the shop and began arguing with another. The man then took out a gun and fired multiple times," the Los Angeles Times reported.

Happy 125th Birthday, Hollywood! What's Your Dream?

Happy 125th Birthday, Hollywood! What's Your Dream?

With the welcoming of a new month, we are also celebrating the 125th birthday of Tinseltown. On February 1, 1887, Harvey Wilcox officially registered Hollywood with the Los Angeles County recorder's office. [ more › ]

DC Entertainment Returning to 'Watchmen' with 7-Book Prequel Series

Well here's a dumb idea...


DC Entertainment Returning to 'Watchmen' with 7-Book Prequel Series (Exclusive Image)



Borys Kit
'Watchmen' is the top-selling graphic novel of all time and was part of a wave of comics in the 1980s that redefined the genre.

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'Calvin and Hobbes' Rare Artwork to Be Auctioned; Expected to Fetch More Than $50,000

'Calvin and Hobbes' Rare Artwork to Be Auctioned; Expected to Fetch More Than $50,000

Andy Lewis
The only piece of published art from the famous comic strip ever offered to the public goes on sale Feb. 23.

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Two Cute: Den Camera Shows Baby Bears' Birth

Two Cute: Den Camera Shows Baby Bears' Birth

The Pajama Manifesto

The Pajama Manifesto

Pajamas are on the rise. Across the land, according to the Wall Street Journal, teenagers have taken to wearing PJs all day, even in public—even to school! Apparel companies like Abercrombie & Fitch and American Eagle are cashing in on the trend, stocking their stores with leggings and sweatpants and other comfortable, flowy, elastic waistbanded apparel. Pajamas are even popping up in high fashion: Here’s Sofia Coppola happily, gorgeously stepping outside during the day in Louis Vuitton pajamas, and here’s designer Rachel Roy attending a movie premiere in her own brand of jammies. Last week Shopbop.com, a women’s clothing site that tracks new “looks,” exhorted its customers to “get comfortable with pajama dressing.” Among its wares were several silk blouses selling for more than $200 each; a pair of silk drawstring plaid pants with elastic cuffs for $495; and these $845 (!) wide-leg print pants constructed out of sateen, a fabric that I think is mostly used to make bed sheets.

14 entertaining cases of collective Internet satire

When the commentariat attacks!: 14 entertaining cases of collective Internet satire

1-2. Paula Deen’s English Peas/Rachael Ray’s Late Night Bacon
Food Network stars like Paula Deen and Rachael Ray pride themselves on uncomplicated dishes that viewers can easily recreate for their disappointed families on dinner tables across America. The recipe for Deen’s English Peas is roughly this: Drain a can of peas, add half a stick of butter, heat on the stove, and serve with middle finger raised in the air. The recipe for Ray’s “Late Night Bacon”: Eight slices of bacon, a bunch of paper towels, a microwave, and fuck off. Both were easy pickings ...

The Lana Del Rey Phenomenon

She’s Not What She Seems

A few years ago, the singer and songwriter Lizzy Grant reinvented herself online. This seems overwhelmingly unremarkable behavior in the 21^st century, particularly for a would-be pop musician, but it proved scandalous. Grant, a 25-year-old singer-songwriter from upstate New York, recorded an EP and an album in the late 2000s. Some time before the summer of 2011, according to a recent Billboard story, she deleted her social-networking profiles and a site bearing her name, and withdrew her album, Lizzy Grant aka Lana Del Rey, from iTunes. Last August, she uploaded a music video to YouTube under the stage name Lana Del Rey—goodbye Grant. The clip was for “Video Games,” a beguilingly morose love song. Helped along by music blogs and BBC Radio 1, which supported the track early, the video became a hit: Today, it’s been viewed more than 22 million times.