Morning Buzz: Monday 6.11.07

Earl Ofari Hutchinson showed up at the media camp outside the Twin Towers jail and urged Paris Hilton to become an advocate for the jailed mentally ill. Al Sharpton arrives today. LAT, Breeze

Orlov/DN: Queen of distraction politics, and Bratton's dinner with Rudy.
Hymon/LAT: Instant runoffs.

L.A.-based ERS News.com has obtained and posted details from 9-11 terrorist Mohamed Atta's FAA file. If you click the link, beware there is sound.

The former manager and exec producer is profiled in the New York Times as a real estate player: "Owning a Sandy Gallin flipped home is now nearly as prestigious as it once was to be managed by Sandy Gallin." NYT

A reader emails that the AM talk station with the booming signal was off for half an hour Sunday afternoon. No mention on the website.

The Daily News does a feature on The New Majority, the Republican group that includes top advertiser Bert Boeckmann — and that put $200,000 into Tamar Galatzan's school board campaign.

Now that he's playing well again Real Madrid wants to keep him, but the Galaxy say a deal is a deal. Beckham also wants to play for England again. LAT, BBC

The Dodgers finally recalled James Loney, who will give the slumping (or more?) Nomar Garciaparra more "rest." Brady Clark loses his roster spot, and the Dodgers finally move the lineup's worst on-base hitter to the #8 spot. LAT

The "Biff Malibu" quoted last week in a Larry Stewart sports column in the LAT is not the porn actor and owner of Anabolic Video. But he is from the Valley. I'm told his real name is Jeff Coggins, he lives in Sherman Oaks and he was at the Ducks game. Coggins was quoted by his real name in an April Times story about the parking woes at Dodger Stadium.

The LAT isn't the only paper dumbing down via cost cutting, but author and Atlantic magazine correspondent Mark Bowden argues that "it is a mistake for newspapers...to do away with such things as book review sections and Sunday magazines. Our core audience is educated, well-informed, curious and generally smarter than we are - about more than a few things. Essays about books and ideas, reviews of film, theater, art and television - these are far more important for newspapers today than they ever were in the past."

Sam Hall Kaplan plays the Times Square card in a Downtown News piece hyping AEG's L.A. Live development.

Councilwoman speaks at today's Current Affairs forum lunch at the Wilshire Grand.

Joel Kotkin becomes a Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures in Chapman University's Hobbs Institute on July 1.

Maria Elena Durazo, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, is one of the letter writers who appealed to the Times to keep Wartzman's Business section column.

Info on the L.A. jail system including inmate locater and glossary.