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Otis Chandler's classic car collection brought more than $36 million at Saturday's auction. Video screens showed bids in dollars, British pounds, euros, Swiss francs and Japanese yen.
The Screen Actors Guild board hired Doug Allen, an executive with the NFL Players Association, as national executive director and chief negotiator.
Weller jurors speak out about the driver's guilt, plus how KNBC put together the text-message report we mentioned Friday.
The Steve Lyons affair is much ado about nada, says Gustavo Arellano in an LAT op-ed piece that also calls on Latin ballplayers to accept their burden as "the nation's most acceptable Latinos � multimillionaires with a stake in bettering their adopted communities."
Transferred Crenshaw High history teacher and cause celebre Alex Caputo-Pearl will return to his classroom.
Politics as usual: the campaign literature for Measure R (on the ballot in Los Angeles only) makes it sound as if the measure will limit council members' service rather than extend it. But then, it's seldom bad strategy to insult the attention span of Los Angeles voters.
Because the state law on indecent exposure only refers to exposing "his person," a Riverside County judge rules it applies only to men. Case dismissed for a woman charged with giving a show to a neighbor boy.
Times columnist Gregory Rodriguez finds Seoul refreshingly like the L.A. neighborhood where he lives: "Here, as in Koreatown, the women are fashionistas, the drivers are aggressive and parents put serious pressure on their kids to succeed in school. And did I mention, there are bars and saunas everywhere you look? Home sweet home."
Former "Friends" writers Shana Goldberg-Meehan and Scott Silveri were married in Vermont. Her mother helped found the Archer School in Brentwood.
Bob Morris in the NYT: "I blame Los Angeles for giving the rest of the nation permission to go so casual..." He quotes actress Christina Haag: "You go to the opera or symphony in a nice dress instead of jeans and you look stupid. It�s all about always appearing relaxed."
Ballona Wetlands activist Robert "Roy" van de Hoek agreed to write a report about the flora and fauna at Del Rey Lagoon, lead walking tours and donate 215 hours of his time to the environment in exchange for deferral of charges that he vandalized city-owned trees in the wetlands.
William Morris will stay in Beverly Hills but move north of Wilshire on Beverly Drive, across from the new Montage Hotel.
Forty newsroom jobs will be eliminated at the San Jose Mercury News, newly owned by Dean Singleton's MediaNews. Watch out, L.A. Newspaper Group.