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Mary Hart has done enough ET, Meg with John & Ken, a judge chills the Times, LoGrande confirmed, Sean Penn as Max Perkins and a whole bunch of media notes. Inside...
- A hearing on Friday will weigh whether same-sex couples can marry while the Prop. 8 court ruling case is under appeal. LAT
- Mary Hart will leave "Entertainment Tonight," her TV home since 1982, next year. Arts Beat
- Covering Meg Whitman's appearance with John and Ken on KFI. LAT, CalBuzz, Carla Marinucci
- Whitman has paid 56 consultants so far in her $99 million-and-counting campaign. California Watch
- Times photographer Al Seib was ordered by Judge Hilleri G. Merritt not to publish photos he shot, with permission, at the arraignment of murder suspect Alberd Tersargyan. LAT
Plus: The killings that the LAT keeps calling the Little Armenia murders actually occurred elsewhere in Hollywood, says Dennis Romero. LA Weekly - Universal was so upset that the Times ran a bad review of "Despicable Me" on the same day as its big Calendar front ads for the movie that the studio considered not paying, says Johnnie L. Roberts. The Wrap
- Charges by Host International Inc. of conflicts of interest on the other side of the LAX food concessions political fight led the Board of Referred Powers to postpone its upcoming hearing. LAT, Breeze
- Yesterday's American Airlines flight 117 to LAX from New York was diverted to Albuquerque and delayed several hours because a passenger lit matches and smoked in a bathroom. Breeze wires
- The City Council confirmed Michael LoGrande as planning director. LA Weekly
- John Mack was reelected president of the police commission, and Alan Skobin vice president. LA Weekly
- Nearly 1,000 mourners turned out to honor the late assemblyman Keith Richman. DN
- Anonymous website WatchOurCity.com has been reporting on the Southeast cities since long before the L.A. Times discovered Bell. Capitol Weekly
- KPCC reporter Adolfo Guzman-Lopez blogs at KCET about covering the SB 1070 debate in Arizona — and the lovely Palo Verde trees. Movie Miento
- Alex Thompson, President of Bikeside LA, says Mayor Villaraigosa's call for a "bike summit" fails on three counts: it's scheduled during the work day, was not coordinated with bike activists, and overlooks that they already held two bigger "bike summits." Via release
- Author Rachel Resnick has gone from being a dedicated non-cook to writing a blog on her "daily adventures in cooking," The Art of Boiling Water.
- Nicole LaPorte can and did write this: "Amy Fisher kicked me of her porn shoot." Daily Beast
- Tim Rutten reviews "Hollywood: A Third Memoir," Larry McMurtry's "delightfully episodic account of his long, profitable and generally rather enjoyable engagement with the movie industry." LAT
- Allison Silver, formerly Sunday Opinion editor at the L.A. Times, has been named Opinion Editor at Politico. Gorkana
- Sean Penn is in talks to play legendary literary editor Max Perkins in "Genius," a movie based on A. Scott Berg's 1978 biography. THR
- Mahim Maher, a former Daniel Pearl Fellow, now blogs with commentary from Pakistan for the Jewiish Journal's website. My Pakistan
- The late L.A. Times editor Richard Rouilard and Edythe Eyde, who wrote the first lesbian publication in L.A. under the pseudonym of Lisa Ben while at RKO Studios in 1947-48, were inducted into the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association journalists' hall of fame. Via release
- City Attorney Carmen Trutanich guests on "Airtalk with Larry Mantle" at 10:30 on KPCC.