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Tension Beneath Tranquility — TheWrap’s Exclusive Tour of the Motion Picture Home
Walking along the home’s shaded paths, it’s easy to see why residents wish to remain here.
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Jailing Dr. Feelgood: Prescriptions-on-Demand Gets Riskier
Prosecutors are targeting celeb-friendly docs, but making charges stick is tough.
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McCourt vs. McCourt: Dodger Post-Season Slugfest
Besides the livelihoods of Frank and Jamie McCourt, at stake is the fate of one of baseball’s most hallowed teams.
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Pellicano Suit: Brooks Brothers or Marx Brothers?
When a case’s biggest lawyers are also its defendants, it promises to be a train-wreck of a trial.
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Third Polanski Bail Offer Reportedly Rejected
Intense pressure from the United States to extradite the auteur make further bond negotiations seem pointless.
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Polanski’s Priceline Bail Bid
“There’s no reason why there should be any similarity to our (legal) system.”
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Anna Nicole Smith’s Pals Going to Trial
Howard K. Stern forlornly dropped his head upon hearing the decision. He could face more than five years.
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Dominick Dunne Remembered at the Chateau Marmont
He regularly lunched at Michael’s, but Dunne was no Walter Winchell spitefully trading in scandal and semi-truths.
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More Lurid Details of Anna Nicole Smith’s Big Sleep
A nanny says Howard K. Stern kept Smith in a zombie-like state with round-robins of downers and opiates.
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Sen. Gloria Romero: Send Polanski Back
A state senator calls the director’s victim “magnanimous,” while Gore Vidal calls her “a young hooker.”
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Are Celebs Asking to Be Robbed?
“Don’t stop! Don’t stop! Don’t stop!” is a PI’s mocking impersonation of a celebrity’s relationship to the paparazzi.
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A Movable Timetable: How MPTF’s Deadline Shifted
With 66 residents currently remaining at the Motion Picture Home, MPTF has had to renew its license for one more year.
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Anna Nicole Hearing Heads for the Finish Line
During court hearing, prosecutors allege Smith’s friends were drugstore cowboys who rustled up opiates for her.
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Ex-Prosecutor: Victim’s Plea Won’t Help Polanski Much
If and when the director is returned to L.A., Superior Court Judge Espinoza will be the one figuring out what to do with him.
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Polanski’s Victim: ‘Drop the Charges’
Victim Samantha Geimer has formally filed a motion to dismiss charges against him.