Morning Buzz: Monday 1.12.08

If anyone remembers the 2009 Golden Globes, it will be for "Slumdog Millionaire" and Kate Winslet. Variety, NYT, LAT, winners list
"It's a completely meaningless awards show by a scandal-riddled organization on a network desperate for any kind of ratings. Yet here I am live-blogging the Golden Globes..." Nikki Finke
Chief Bratton is hosting a Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast for black leaders that may become an annual event. Orlov/DN
That gang intervention worker arrested in a robbery and beating over the weekend had previously been featured on a Fox 11 report about city funding of gang members that was denied by Councilwoman Janice Hahn. Eric Leonard/KFI
Downtown developer Dan Rosenfeld will be the senior deputy in charge of planning, transportation, the environment and economic development for Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas. DT News
Good piece over the weekend on Patte Barham, a former Hearst reporter in L.A. and socialite who lives in one of the most interesting homes in Fremont Place — backing up to Obama adviser Michael Lawson — and who swears she knows where the old Russian crown jewels are buried. There's a catch: it's in Mongolia. Bob Pool in LAT
Things are tough on the Sherman Oaks stretch of Ventura Boulevard. Daily News
Inside movie marketer Tim Palen's playbook, via the latest Tad Friend Letter from California. The New Yorker
Backers of East Los Angeles cityhood gathered enough signatures to formally start the incorporation process. LAT, LA Eastside
Architecture students of UCLA professor Dana Cuff will analyze the recent Times choices of the ten best houses in Los Angeles. Design & Architecture blog
Which books does blogger Carolyn Kellogg pick up at a free book swap? Blog
Ida Kinney, African American civil rights pioneer in the Valley, died at age 104. LAT, DN